SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif., August 26, 2024 – In addition to year-round campfire restrictions, enhanced campfire restrictions go into effect today, August 26, 2025, on National Forest lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Enhanced campfire restrictions will remain in effect through Nov. 30, or until rescinded. Enhanced fire restrictions say campfires (wood, charcoal, pellets, or any solid […]
PRESS RELEASE Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team For Immediate Release: August 22, 2025 Media contacts: Annabelle Monti | Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team | (530) 541-1501 ext. 126 Jeff Cowen | Tahoe Regional Planning Agency | (775) 589-5278 Agencies Sign 10-Year Strategy to Protect Lake Tahoe Communities and Forests Lake Tahoe, Calif./Nev. – Against the backdrop […]
By Kelsey Stalker, Tahoe Resource Conservation District As the weather warms around the lake, wildfire ready residents continue to “get defensive,” by creating defensible space, doing home hardening, and connecting with their fire districts through the Tahoe Network of Fire Adapted Communities. In coordination with the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team (TFFT) and the Tahoe […]
Given the events in Southern California earlier this month it is difficult to pick any other topic to discuss. The Eaton Fire and the Palisades Fire will go down as one of, if not the, most destructive fires in California History and they occurred in January. The idea of “Fire Season” is no longer an […]
CARNELIAN BAY, Calif. – The forest skirting the Carnelian Woods Avenue neighborhood now stands much healthier than the forest that resided there before. A pile burning project there is nearing completion. It’s the last leg of a larger fuels mitigation project that included forest thinning. “We have good tree spacing,” North Tahoe Fire Protection District’s […]