By Kelsey Stalker with the Tahoe Resource Conservation District Photo features South Tahoe High School CTE Forestry students helping create defensible space in the Fallen Leaf Lake Fire Adapted Community. Fire has helped shape and define Tahoe’s forests, contributing to nutrient recycling and amazing biodiversity. Without fire, forest fuels accumulate, and important ecological benefits to the […]
Written by Kelsey Stalker, Fire Adapted Communities Program Assistant at the Tahoe Resource Conservation District. It’s summer in Tahoe after a historically low snowpack winter. It’s not time to panic, it’s time to ask ourselves: what’s my home hardening strategy? When preparing for wildfire, we need to remember that fire is a natural part of the ecosystem. This is why Land Managers use […]
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 Enhanced campfire restrictions will remain in effect through Nov. 30, or until rescinded.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 […]