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Vegetation, Urban Lot, Fire and Fuels Management Programs

The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has organized the Vegetation, Urban Lot, Fire, and Fuels programs under a single staff area in order to better coordinate hazardous fuels reduction and forest health thinning.  These programs are overseen by staff officer Dave Marlow.  For information on specific program areas please use the links below:

Vegetation Management

Coming Soon
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Briefing Paper
(PDF 39 KB)

Urban Lot Management

Website
Briefing Paper
(PDF 103 KB)

Fire & Fuels Management

Website
Briefing Paper
(PDF 60 KB)

Vegetation, Urban Lot, Fire and Fuels Program Accomplishments

Vegetation Management

• More than 22,000 acres of fuels reduction work has been accomplished in the past nine years, including 18,825 acres in California, and 3,565 acres in Nevada.
• In 2003 nearly 3,000 acres of treatments were accomplished
• In 2004, nearly 4,000 acres of treatments were accomplished.
• In 2005, nearly 2,500 acres of treatments were accomplished.

Urban Lot Management
1995 - September 2005

• 1280 acres of hazardous fuels management has been completed. (2150 urban lots and 2.5 miles of urban interface lands).
• 335 acres of re-entry (follow up) forest health treatments (550 urban lots)
• Removed over 2100 identified hazard trees
• 240 acres of watershed restoration treatments (400 urban lots)
• Conducted Invasive Species monitoring and manual weed control on 68 acres (160 urban lots)
• Resolution on over 470 trespass cases
• Completed initial Condition Assessment Inventory on 3360 urban lots and conduct Parcel Condition Monitoring of approximately 1200 urban lots annually.
• Issued over 1100 forest products permits (average 100 per year) to private property owners for fuels reduction stewardship of adjoining National Forest System lands.

Fuels Management

• Since 1997 over 1000 acres of landscape underburns and over 3000 acres of prescribed pile burning has been implemented on the LTBMU.

View of past, current and planned treatments

You can view Forest Service past, current and planned treatment areas at the Tahoe Integrated Information Management System (TIIMS) website. This interactive map will allow you to zoom into your area and view past fuels project accomplishments, and current and planned future treatments.

Note: Current and planned future treatments are subject to change due to funding and other factors. The Forest Service treatments on the TIIMS website are updated annually.

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