Hazardous Fuels Reduction Operations Continue at Lake Tahoe

Contact: USDA Forest Service, Lisa Herron 530-721-3898 or lisa.herron@usda.gov LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev., August 12, 2025 – Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team hazardous fuels reduction (forest thinning) projects are underway around Lake Tahoe and scheduled to continue through fall 2025, conditions and weather permitting. Multiple partners including the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, California Tahoe Conservancy, Liberty Utilities, NV Energy, Nevada Division of Forestry, North Lake Tahoe and Tahoe Douglas […]

How a Small Tahoe Community Became a Model for Wildfire Defense

By Luqman Adeniyi, Los Angeles Times It’s often said that wildfire prevention is the only real defense a neighborhood has against disaster. Images from the Eaton and Palisades fires that swept through Los Angeles seared that idea into the minds of people across the country, pushing many of them to take a closer look at how […]

Life after fire: From flames to flora, new life buds in wildfire scars

By Claire McArthur, Tahoe Daily Tribune Four years ago, the Caldor Fire burned 221,835 acres in El Dorado, Alpine and Amador counties, as it climbed the western slope and crested into the Tahoe Basin. Over 1,000 structures were destroyed and beloved forests — habitats for animals and playgrounds for recreationalists — were forever changed. Fireweed […]

Hazardous Fuels Treatments Begin Near South Tahoe High School

Treatments Complement South Lake Tahoe High School Fuels Reduction and Forest Health Project SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif., June 25, 2025 – To reduce wildfire risk, the USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is scheduled to begin mastication treatments on approximately 20 acres of National Forest System lands adjacent to South Tahoe High School. Work may begin […]

A compact masticator reducing brush that can act as a ladder fuel, carrying fire into the forest canopy.

Clearing the Way

How Mastication Machines Help Protect Tahoe from Wildfire Lake Tahoe, Calif./Nev., June 23, 2025 – Forest fuel reduction projects happening throughout the Tahoe Basin this year are using a tool known as mastication around communities to connect fuel treatment projects and bolster defensible space within the wildland urban interface. The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team (TFFT) […]

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