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North Lake Tahoe Defense Zone Improvement Project

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Contents

Project Overview

Basics

Forest and Community Resilience & Health
Community Wildfire Protection
Wildland Urban Interface Hazardous Fuel Reduction
North Lake Tahoe Defense Zone Improvement Project
Implementation
The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District (NLTFPD) will reduce hazardous fuels on 210-620 acres and plan for additional hazardous fuels removal on federal and non-federal lands in the wildland-urban interface of Incline Village and Crystal Bay, NV to mitigate the wildfire risk to the community and improve forest health. The project will be accompanied by two public outreach activities that will showcase fuels reduction treatments and provide education on forest health, fuels treatments, and Fire Adapted Community concepts. These activities will create a better informed and more prepared Fire Adapted Community in Incline Village and Crystal Bay, NV, an area with extreme wildfire risk.
2020
2023
2028
1/22/2025

Project Attributes

Footprint Acres
None

Location

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  • Washoe
  • Not in a National Forest
  • Third Creek-Frontal Lake Tahoe (1605010101)
  • Lake Tahoe (16050101)
  • WUI Defense

Organizations

Funders
  • Incline Village General Improvement District
  • Nevada Energy
  • North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District
  • Private
  • U.S. Bureau of Land Management
  • U.S. Forest Service - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
  • Washoe County, NV
Lead Implementer
  • North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District

Contacts

Jason Furmaniak (jfurmaniak@nltfpd.net)

Performance Measures

Expected Performance Measures

Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment Critical Zone: Unspecified Treatment Phases: Unspecified Treatment Type: Hand Thinning 186 acres
Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment Critical Zone: Unspecified Treatment Phases: Unspecified Treatment Type: Hand Thinning 24 acres
Educational and Interpretive Programs Produced Program Objective: Education and Interpretation Project Status: Unspecified 2

Reported Performance Measures

Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment
Critical Zone Treatment Phases Treatment Type Total 2024 2023 Units
Unspecified Unspecified Hand Thinning 128.88 71.84 57.04 acres
Unspecified Unspecified Mastication 57.76 57.76 N/A acres
Unspecified Unspecified Prescribed Burning 19.8 N/A 19.8 acres
Total 206.44 129.6 76.84 acres

Financials

Budget

$1,222,527.00
$1,222,527.00
$0.00
$0.00
Total
Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (USFS - LTBMU) $1,222,527.00 $0.00 $1,222,527.00
Total $1,222,527.00 $0.00 $1,222,527.00
Comment: None provided

Reported Expenditures

2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Total
Incline Village General Improvement District (IVGID) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $82,888.00 $94,848.00 $0.00 $177,736.00
Nevada Energy (NV Energy) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $23,525.00 $0.00 $0.00 $23,525.00
North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District (North Lake Tahoe - FPD) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $7,059.00 $11,308.00 $0.00 $18,367.00
Private Property Owners (Private) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $37,772.00 $33,406.00 $0.00 $71,178.00
Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (BLM (MLFO)) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $149,070.00 $282,662.00 $0.00 $431,732.00
Washoe County General Fund (Washoe County) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1,371.00 $0.00 $1,371.00
Grand Total $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $300,314.00 $423,595.00 $0.00 $723,909.00
Note: None provided

Pillars of Resilience

Pillars of Resilience

Project Details

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Notes

01/14/2025 3:26 PM System In 2024 129 acres received wildfire mitigation treatments. 71.8 acres were treated utilizing hand thinning, and 57.3 acres were treated utilizing mastication. Treatments occurred on public and privately owned property within the Defense Zone of Incline Village and Crystal Bay NV..
12/22/2023 1:41 PM System Project implementation began in 2023. Hand thinning operations were conducted on five privately owned parcels totaling 42.5 acres. An addition 14.5 acres was hand thinned on public lands. During November 2023 a 19.8 Acre understory burn was conducted on IVGID land. A total of 76.8 acres was treated for wildfire fuels reduction in 2023 as part of the SNPLMA Rd. 18 Defense Zone Improvement project.
03/14/2022 9:05 AM System The footprint displayed for this project represents the entire area where treatments may take place. As treatments take place the footprint will be updated to reflect the areas that actually received treatment. It is likely that fuels reduction treatments for this project do not begin until the 2023 field season.

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Photos

Photos

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    After Photo 19.8 Acre Understory Burn Part of the SNPLMA Rd. 18 Defense Zone Improvement Project (Timing: After) (~247 KB) Credit: NLTFPD

    After Photo 19.8 Acre Understory Burn Part of the SNPLMA Rd. 18 Defense Zone Improvement Project
    (Timing: After) (~247 KB)
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    Before Photo 19.8 Acre Understory Burn Part of the SNPLMA Rd. 18 Defense Zone Improvement Project (Timing: Before) (~269 KB) Credit: NLTFPD

    Before Photo 19.8 Acre Understory Burn Part of the SNPLMA Rd. 18 Defense Zone Improvement Project
    (Timing: Before) (~269 KB)

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