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Basics
Basics
The purpose of this project is to plan and implement fuels reduction and forest health treatments within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) focused specifically on National Forest System (NFS) lands within the Defense Zone, with an emphasis on urban forest parcels within and adjacent to communities located within the Lake Tahoe Basin. The project will focus on restoring and maintaining fire resilient landscapes within the WUI Defense Zone in accordance with the Lake Tahoe Basin 10-Year Multi-Jurisdictional Fuels Reduction and Wildfire Prevention Strategy.
Implementation
2017
2023
2035
$12,470,000
Brian Garrett (brian.garrett@usda.gov)
01/31/2017
01/24/2024
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02.01.01.0097 - Urban Forest Defense Zone Fuels Reduction and Healthy Forest Project
This project is on the EIP 5-year list.
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
No expected performance measures set for this project.
Reported Performance Measures
Reported Performance Measures
| Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Total | Units | ||||
| Initial or Maintenance Treatment | Property Ownership | Treatment Type | Treatment Zone | |||
| Initial | U.S. Forest Service | Hand Thinning | Community Defense Zone | 56 | 56 | acres |
| Total | 56 | 56 | acres | |||
Funding
Expected Funding
Expected Funding
$12,470,000
$2,486,000
$9,984,000
($4,000,000 identified as )
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (BLM) | $6,286,000 | $2,286,000 | $4,000,000 |
| U.S. Forest Service (USFS - LTBMU) | $200,000 | $200,000 | $0 |
| Grand Total | $6,486,000 | $2,486,000 | $4,000,000 |
Reported Expenditures
Reported Expenditures
| Total | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act | $810,791 | $500,000 | $17,000 | $24,000 | $6,900 | $240,081 | $9,810 | $13,000 |
| U.S. Forest Service | $100,000 | $80,000 | $20,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Grand Total | $910,791 | $580,000 | $37,000 | $24,000 | $6,900 | $240,081 | $9,810 | $13,000 |
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Watersheds
No watersheds set for this project.
Threshold Categories
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This project will complete planning and conduct fuels reduction and forest health treatments within the Defense Zone of the Wildland Urban Interface, with an emphasis on Urban Forest parcels.
Local and Regional Plans
Related Projects
Related Projects
02.01.01.0097 - Urban Forest Defense Zone Fuels Reduction and Healthy Forest Project is associated with following groups of projects.
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Notes
Notes
| 01/12/2024 4:43 PM | Brian Garrett | A stewardship agreement with Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District for fuels reduction work as finalized in 2023, 9 acres of treatment near Skyland Sub-division was completed under this agreement. North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District treated 37 acres thru a participating agreement and work to establish a new stewardship agreement for fuels reduction work was developed and will be implemented in 2024. The Washoe CHIPs crew implemented 10 acres of fuels reduction treatments. | ||
| 12/30/2022 3:26 PM | Brian Garrett | Project planning was completed in FY22. The Urban Forest Defense Zone Project Decision Memo was signed on August 6, 2022 authorizing fuels reduction and forest health related treatments on NFS urban lots and interface lands totaling 4,101 acres. The LTBMU has begun planning treatments with partner agencies to begin in FY23. This project will be updated to an implementation project in 2023. | ||
| 01/17/2022 6:50 PM | Brian Garrett | Project planning was again delayed in FY21, however a contract was finalized for NEPA services and project scoping was completed in August 2021. NEPA analysis and project decision is on track for being completed in April 2021. Project implementation will begin during the 2021 field season. | ||
| 12/31/2020 8:33 AM | Brian Garrett | Project planning was delayed for most of 2020. Project on schedule to have planning decision by June 2021 | ||
| 01/13/2020 8:37 AM | Brian Garrett | Project is being managed by CTC under Good Neighbor Authority agreement with USFS, planning and analysis will occur in 2020. | ||
| 01/08/2018 3:16 PM | Brian Garrett | Preliminary GIS analysis of potential treatment needs in the WUI Defense Zone was completed in FY17. This project will likely have little work done on it until the end of calendar year 2018, the beginning of FY19. | ||
| 12/31/2016 9:50 AM | System | The purpose of this project is to plan and implement fuels reduction and forest health treatments within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) focused specifically on National Forest System (NFS) lands within the Defense Zone, with an emphasis on urban forest parcels within and adjacent to communities located within the Lake Tahoe Basin. The current decision to implement Integrated Resource Management (IRM) treatments on National Forest System (NFS) Urban Forest parcels, while still valid, is over a decade old and restricts the kinds of treatments allowed and where they can occur. This project will allow the US Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit to more effectively and efficiently reduce hazardous fuels and improve forest health within the Defense Zone on NFS lands throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin. The project will focus on restoring and maintaining fire resilient landscapes within the WUI Defense Zone in accordance with the Lake Tahoe Basin 10-Year Multi-Jurisdictional Fuels Reduction and Wildfire Prevention Strategy. The project will generate a programmatic NEPA decision that will focus on implementing treatments within the WUI Defense Zone where fuels conditions exceed desired levels that could create fire behavior under 90th percentile conditions that exceed the ability of direct attack fire suppression tactics. It will allow the Forest Service to quickly approve multi-jurisdictional projects that cross landownership boundaries under the Good Neighbor Authority and allow for adjoining land owners to maintain recommended defensible space clearances when the extend onto adjoining NFS lands. |