Urban Forest Defense Zone Fuels Reduction and Healthy Forest Project
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Project Overview
Basics
Urban Forest Defense Zone Fuels Reduction and Healthy Forest Project
Implementation
The purpose of this project is to plan and implement fuels reduction and forest health treatments within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) focused specifically on National Forest System (NFS) lands within the Defense Zone, with an emphasis on urban forest parcels within and adjacent to communities located within the Lake Tahoe Basin. The project will focus on restoring and maintaining fire resilient landscapes within the WUI Defense Zone in accordance with the Lake Tahoe Basin 10-Year Multi-Jurisdictional Fuels Reduction and Wildfire Prevention Strategy.
2017
2023
2035
1/22/2025
Project Attributes
Footprint Acres
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Location
Named Area: Basin-wide
, Area Type: Region
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Organizations
Contacts
Brian Garrett
(brian.garrett@usda.gov)
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
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Reported Performance Measures
| Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Zone | Treatment Phases | Treatment Type | Total | 2024 | 2023 | Units |
| Unspecified | Unspecified | Hand Thinning | 179 | 123 | 56 | acres |
| Total | 179 | 123 | 56 | acres | ||
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (USFS - LTBMU) | $13,000.00 | $9,810.00 | $240,081.00 | $6,900.00 | $24,000.00 | $17,000.00 | $500,000.00 | $250,000.00 | $0.00 | $1,060,791.00 |
| U.S. Forest Service (USFS - LTBMU) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $20,000.00 | $80,000.00 | $67,000.00 | $0.00 | $167,000.00 |
| Wildfire Resilience (CTC) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $126,777.00 | $0.00 | $126,777.00 |
| Grand Total | $13,000.00 | $9,810.00 | $240,081.00 | $6,900.00 | $24,000.00 | $37,000.00 | $580,000.00 | $443,777.00 | $0.00 | $1,354,568.00 |
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Pillars of Resilience
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Project Details
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Notes
| 01/13/2025 2:34 PM | System | A Stewardship Agreement with North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District was finalized in 2024. Work under the project completed 33 acres of treatments on NFS urban parcels in Incline Village, NV. Work continued under the Tahoe Doulgas Fire Protection District Stewardship Agreement, completing work on 32 acres of NFS urban parcels and interface lands in Douglas County, NV. USFS and the Washoe CHIPs crew completed an additional 28.4 acres of fuels reduction treatments on NFS parcels lake wide. The California Tahoe Conservancy, under a Good Neighbor Authority agreement with the LTBMU completed an additional 29.6 acres of treatment on NFS urban parcels in the North Upper Truckee, Tahoe Hills and Gardner Mountain neighborhoods funded by CTC Wildfire Resilience funding and LTRA funds. | ||
| 01/12/2024 4:43 PM | System | A stewardship agreement with Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District for fuels reduction work as finalized in 2023, 9 acres of treatment near Skyland Sub-division was completed under this agreement. North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District treated 37 acres thru a participating agreement and work to establish a new stewardship agreement for fuels reduction work was developed and will be implemented in 2024. The Washoe CHIPs crew implemented 10 acres of fuels reduction treatments. | ||
| 12/30/2022 3:26 PM | System | Project planning was completed in FY22. The Urban Forest Defense Zone Project Decision Memo was signed on August 6, 2022 authorizing fuels reduction and forest health related treatments on NFS urban lots and interface lands totaling 4,101 acres. The LTBMU has begun planning treatments with partner agencies to begin in FY23. This project will be updated to an implementation project in 2023. | ||
| 01/17/2022 6:50 PM | System | Project planning was again delayed in FY21, however a contract was finalized for NEPA services and project scoping was completed in August 2021. NEPA analysis and project decision is on track for being completed in April 2021. Project implementation will begin during the 2021 field season. | ||
| 12/31/2020 8:33 AM | System | Project planning was delayed for most of 2020. Project on schedule to have planning decision by June 2021 | ||
| 01/13/2020 8:37 AM | System | Project is being managed by CTC under Good Neighbor Authority agreement with USFS, planning and analysis will occur in 2020. | ||
| 01/08/2018 3:16 PM | System | Preliminary GIS analysis of potential treatment needs in the WUI Defense Zone was completed in FY17. This project will likely have little work done on it until the end of calendar year 2018, the beginning of FY19. | ||
| 12/31/2016 9:50 AM | System | The purpose of this project is to plan and implement fuels reduction and forest health treatments within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) focused specifically on National Forest System (NFS) lands within the Defense Zone, with an emphasis on urban forest parcels within and adjacent to communities located within the Lake Tahoe Basin. The current decision to implement Integrated Resource Management (IRM) treatments on National Forest System (NFS) Urban Forest parcels, while still valid, is over a decade old and restricts the kinds of treatments allowed and where they can occur. This project will allow the US Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit to more effectively and efficiently reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest health within the Defense Zone on NFS lands throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin. The project will focus on restoring and maintaining fire resilient landscapes within the WUI Defense Zone in accordance with the Lake Tahoe Basin 10-Year Multi-Jurisdictional Fuels Reduction and Wildfire Prevention Strategy. The project will generate a programmatic NEPA decision that will focus on implementing treatments within the WUI Defense Zone where fuels conditions exceed desired levels that could create fire behavior under 90th percentile conditions that exceed the ability of direct attack fire suppression tactics. It will allow the Forest Service to quickly approve multi-jurisdictional projects that cross landownership boundaries under the Good Neighbor Authority and allow for adjoining land owners to maintain recommended defensible space clearances when the extend onto adjoining NFS lands. |
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