Prescribed Fire - LTBMU
Strategy
Fuels Reduction
Lead Implementer
U.S. Forest Service - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
Funders
U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
Project Primary Contact
Brian Garrett
Project Stage
Implementation
Duration
2005 - 2028
Forest Resilience
Fuels Reduction
Use of prescribed fire to reduce fuels, restore ecosystem function and improve forest health and wildlife habitat, using pile burnings and underburning. The purpose of the project is to reduce fuel loading to safe and acceptable levels within the wildland urban interface (WUI) and to re-introduce low to moderate intensity fire back into a fire adapted ecosystem.
Key Accomplishments
- Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment: 12,992.30 acres
Pillars of Resilience
- Fire Adapted Communities
- Fire Dynamics
- Forest Resilience
Location
Location Not Specified
Expenditures
Expenditures by Funding Source to Date: $16,210,605.00
Lake Tahoe Restoratio... (USFS - LTBMU): $1,500,000
Southern Nevada Publi... (USFS - LTBMU): $6,696,605
U.S. Forest Service (USFS - LTBMU): $8,014,000
Photos
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Project last updated 1/23/2025