Skip to main content
Tahoe-Central Sierra Project Tracker
Project Tracker
    • ABOUT TCS PROJECT TRACKER
    • CONTACT US
    • Project Map
    • Full Project List
    • Focus Areas
    • Pillars of Resilience
    • Performance Measures
    • Counties
    • National Forests
    • Watersheds - HUC 10
    • Watersheds - HUC 8
    • WUI Zones
    • Organizations
    • Funding Sources
    • Web Services
    • Accomplishment Dashboard
    • Projects
  • Log In
    • Request Support
    • Training
    • About ProjectFirma
Project Details
TCS Project Tracker California Department of Parks and Recreation

California State Parks WUI Fuel Reduction and Prescribed Fire Program

Strategy
Fuels Reduction
Lead Implementer
California Department of Parks and Recreation
Funders
California Department of Parks and Recreation, U.S. Forest Service - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
Project Primary Contact
Ryan Howard
Project Stage
Implementation
Duration
2021 - 2027
Forest Resilience Fuels Reduction
Reduce hazardous fire fuels and implement prescribed fire within wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas of Burton Creek State Park (SP), Sugar Pine Point SP, and Emerald Bay SP. Forest fuel reduction project work will include forest thinning with hand crews, chipping (and removal of wood chips), stacking burn piles, pile burning and/or understory burning. Project will treat a minimum of 200 acres, up to a maximum of 354 acres in: Burton Creek SP (up to 88 acres), Sugar Pine Point SP (up to 196 acres), and Emerald Bay SP (up to 70 acres). The State Parks crew will be funded by both LTRA funds, and matching funds provided by State Parks.

Key Accomplishments

  • Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment: 422.00 acres

Pillars of Resilience

  • Fire Adapted Communities
  • Forest Resilience
Sugar Pine Point State Park (Timing: Before) (~3,281 KB) Credit: California State Parks
Sugar Pine Point State Park
Credit: California State Parks

Location

Expenditures

Expenditures by Funding Source to Date: $482,000.00
Lake Tahoe Restoratio... (USFS - LTBMU): $422,000

California Department of Park... (CDPR): $60,000

Photos

Emerald Bay State Park (Timing: Before) (~3,485 KB) Credit: California State Parks
Emerald Bay State Park (Timing: Before)
Credit: California State Parks
Burton Creek State Park (Timing: Before) (~3,772 KB) Credit: California State Parks
Burton Creek State Park (Timing: Before)
Credit: California State Parks
Project last updated 1/28/2026

Credits: The Tahoe Central Sierra Project Tracker tool has been developed through generous funding from the California Tahoe Conservancy. This project tracker was created and developed by TCSI and Environmental Science Associates.

ProjectFirma is a service provided by Environmental Science Associates (ESA), which builds on the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's EIP Project Tracker. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. Source code is available on GitHub.

Copyright (C) 2026 Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and ESA | Code last updated (compiled) at 2026-03-25 17:34:11.