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Overview
Basics
Basics
Restore six meadows by removing conifers and burning. Meadows: Baldwin, Freel, Meiss, Benwood, Star, and Hellhole. Related actions include minor stream headcut repair, willow planting, and rebuilding historic Meiss corral. Conifer thinning in Benwood & Star began in 2017. Conifer thinning and meadow burning occurred in Baldwin meadow in 2018. Costs to implement in those meadows was $647,000. Future priorities: 1) complete restoration and monitoring of Benwood, Star, and Hellhole Meadows ($325,000); 2) conduct minor sapling removal in Baldwin ($8,000); 3) restore and monitor Meiss ($2.5M) and Freel Meadows ($300,000).
Implementation
2009
2017
2030
$3,780,000
Emma Williams (emma.williams@usda.gov)
06/01/2014
03/13/2024
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02.02.02.0010 - Restoration of Fire Adapted Ecosystems
10133.4
This project is on the EIP 5-year list.
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
| Acres of SEZ Restored or Enhanced | None | acres | |
| Acres of Habitat Restored or Enhanced | None | acres | |
| Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment | None | acres |
Reported Performance Measures
Reported Performance Measures
| Acres of Habitat Restored or Enhanced | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Total | Units | ||
| Action Performed | Habitat Type | |||||||||
| Restored | Wet Meadows | 100 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 174 | acres |
| Total | 100 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 174 | acres | |
Funding
Expected Funding
Expected Funding
$3,780,000
$647,000
$3,133,000
($3,133,000 identified as )
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Tahoe Restoration Act (USFS - LTBMU) | $1,033,000 | $0 | $1,033,000 |
| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (BLM) | $2,744,000 | $644,000 | $2,100,000 |
| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (USFS - LTBMU) | $3,000 | $3,000 | $0 |
| Grand Total | $3,780,000 | $647,000 | $3,133,000 |
Reported Expenditures
Reported Expenditures
| Total | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act | $570,220 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $105,720 | $133,000 | $11,000 | $40,500 | $54,000 | $23,000 | $30,000 | $0 | $133,000 | $40,000 |
| U.S. Forest Service | $6,550 | $3,200 | $350 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $3,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Grand Total | $576,770 | $3,200 | $350 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $105,720 | $133,000 | $11,000 | $40,500 | $54,000 | $23,000 | $30,000 | $3,000 | $133,000 | $40,000 |
Photos
2018 Best in Basin Award Restotation of Fire Adapted Ecosystems
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Baldwin Meadow August 2018 After Tree Hand thinning
(Timing: During) (~2,199 KB)
Baldwin Meadow June 2018
(Timing: Before) (~2,241 KB)
Baldwin Meadow June 2019 7 months after burn
(Timing: After) (~2,206 KB)
Baldwin Meadow Nov 2018 After Meadow Burn
(Timing: After) (~2,263 KB)
Baldwin Meadow October 2018 After Hand and Mechanical Tree Thinning
(Timing: During) (~2,221 KB)
Burn piles of removed conifers from Star Meadow
(Timing: During) (~4,186 KB)
Removing enroaching conifers with Washoe Tribe
(Timing: During) (~3,674 KB)
Restoration of Fire Adapted Ecosystems wins Best in Basin award 2018
(Timing: Unknown) (~114 KB)
Other Details
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Notes
Notes
| 03/11/2024 4:07 PM | Emma Williams | A Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA) Round 20 grant proposal was submitted by the LTBMU in 2023. The proposal reqested $2.1 million to implement first entry conifer removal, pile burning, and hydrological restoration in Hellhole, Freel, and Meiss meadows and to implement a maintenance broadcast burn in Baldwin meadow. Activities planned for 2024 include preparing piles for burning in Benwood and Star meadows. | ||
| 02/06/2023 2:43 PM | Emma Williams | Project point of contact changed to Emma Williams in 2022. In 2022, the Washoe Tribe CHIPS crew completed hand removal of 6,500 conifer seedlings across 14 acres of previously thinned and burned Baldwin Meadow--equating to 460 trees per acre. This effort was accomplished under an existing agreement and expended 72 person hours. Although this manual removal prevented thousands of seedlings from reaching maturity, high density of seedlings just 5 years after the 2018 burn underscores the need for a broadcast burn maintenance treatment in Baldwin Meadow. This project is unfunded and activities planned for 2023 include implementation planning and grant proposal development to burn Star, Benwood, and Baldwin Meadow and conduct restoration work at Meiss, Freel, and Hellhole meadow. | ||
| 12/06/2018 3:35 PM | Stephanie Coppeto | Our funding for this project expired in September 2018. We had an excess of $73,780 that was returned to our funder (BLM). The additional funds were unused because higher priorities areas were burned, rather than Star and Benwood meadows, since these meadows are not in the Wildland Urban Interface. At this time, there are no additional funds to conduct the restoration work on the remaining three meadows (Meiss, Freel, Hellhole) or to burn the meadows we began to restore (Star and Benwood). |