Community Forestry and Fire Protection
Strategy
Wildland Urban Interface Hazardous Fuel Reduction
Lead Implementer
California Tahoe Conservancy
Funders
California Tahoe Conservancy, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
Project Primary Contact
Milan Yeates (milan.yeates@tahoe.ca.gov)
Project Stage
Implementation
Duration
2022 - 2027
Community Wildfire Protection
Wildland Urban Interface Hazardous Fuel Reduction
The member organizations of the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team are partnering to implement a comprehensive, coordinated management strategy across 12,000 acres of community forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin. These forests contain over 15,000 federal, state, local government, and privately managed vacant lots interspersed among homes and critical infrastructure. The project enables all-lands defensible space, fuel reduction and forest restoration throughout vulnerable neighborhoods in the wildland-urban interface. Through public-private partnerships, residents are engaged in stewardship and monitoring, and efficiency is improved by prioritizing and sharing resources across jurisdictions.
Key Accomplishments
- Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment: 305.61 acres
Pillars of Resilience
- Fire Adapted Communities
- Forest Resilience
A Lake Tahoe Basin home within a managed community forest.
Credit: TFFT
Location
Expenditures
Expenditures by Funding Source to Date: $1,215,932.00
Lake Tahoe Restoratio... (USFS - LTBMU): $58,123
Southern Nevada Publi... (USFS - LTBMU): $186,910
Wildfire Resilience (CTC): $970,899
Photos
Example Lake Tahoe neighborhood showing patchwork ownership pattern. (Timing: Unknown)
Credit: Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team
Project last updated 1/22/2025