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 […]
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – How do we detect wildfires before they grow out of control and how can the public help to mitigate the effects? The ALERTWildfire set of cameras across the west have been able to give firefighters the tools needed to stop fire before it spreads. In the Lake Tahoe Basin, the first […]
EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. – After burning for 60 days and dropping into the Tahoe Basin within that time, the Caldor Fire reached 100% containment on Oct. 21, 2021, yet work related to the over 220,000 acre fire was far from over. As a fire consumes a landscape, the events that unfold are often nail-biting […]
This op-ed by Amy Berry and Caitlin Meyer was published in the Reno Gazette-Journal on December 4, 2024. If you drive down Mt. Rose Highway, you will see remnants of the recent 5,824-acre Davis Fire: Retardant sprayed across the mountain, charred trees on ridgelines, and a forest floor turned black by flame. You will also see “Thank […]