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) […]
Release Date: June 10th, 2025 Contact Information: USDA Forest Service, Lisa Herron 530-721-3898 lisa.herron@usda.gov LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev., June 10, 2025 – Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team hazardous fuels reduction (forest thinning) projects are underway at Lake Tahoe and scheduled to continue through fall 2025, conditions and weather permitting. Liberty Utilities, Nevada Division of Forestry, NV Energy and the USDA […]
Release Date: May 19th, 2025 Contact Information: USDA Forest Service, Lisa Herron 530-721-3898 lisa.herron@usda.gov LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev., May 19, 2025 – The Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team are scheduled to continue prescribed fire operations this week at Lake Tahoe, if conditions and weather allow. Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District is scheduled to burn piles in Glenbrook and on Daggett […]
Release Date: May 13th, 2025 Contact Information: USDA Forest Service, Lisa Herron 530-721-3898 lisa.herron@usda.gov LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev., May 13, 2025 – If conditions are favorable, Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team prescribed fire operations are scheduled to continue this week at Lake Tahoe. The USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is scheduled to burn piles May 14-15, 2025, […]
Release Date: May 5th, 2025 Contact Information: Public Affairs, Lisa Herron 530-721-3898 lisa.herron@usda.gov LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev., May 5, 2025 – If conditions are favorable, Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team prescribed fire operations are scheduled to continue this week at Lake Tahoe. The USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit may burn piles in Meyers near Osgood Swamp to […]