Hand and Mechanical Thinning Underway or Starting Soon Release Date: May 29th, 2025 Contact Information: Public Affairs, Lisa Herron 530-721-3898 lisa.herron@usda.gov SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif., May 29, 2025 – Hazardous fuels reduction (forest thinning) projects are underway or scheduled to resume on National Forest System lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Hand and mechanical thinning treatments are vital management […]
Mastication Off Elks Point Road Reduces Wildfire Risk Release Date: May 27th, 2025 Contact Information: Public Affairs, Lisa Herron 530-721-3898 lisa.herron@usda.gov SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif., May 27, 2025 – The USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is scheduled to begin hazardous fuels reduction mastication treatments off Elks Point Road near Nevada Beach the week of May 27, 2025, […]
Release Date: May 7th, 2025 Contact Information: Public Affairs, Lisa Herron 530-721-3898 lisa.herron@usda.gov SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif., May 7, 2025 – The USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is scheduled to begin hazardous fuels reduction mastication treatments in Meyers near the Pioneer Trail and U.S. Highway 50 intersection the week of May 12, 2025. These operations will target […]
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 […]
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 […]