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Our project will collect seedlings from 100 local and diverse sugar pine trees from Crystal Bay to Tahoe City for reforestation and mountain pine beetle outbreak recovery. Five years of drought has resulted in significant mountain pine beetle-mediated mortality in sugar pine trees on the north shore of Lake Tahoe. We will collect and cultivate sugar pine seed and seedlings in 2017-2018 so that in 2020 2-year old seedlings can be out-planted at north shore restoration sites at Tahoe Vista (USFS, CTC Lands), Carnelian Bay (USFS, CTC Lands), Dollar Hill (CA State Parks and CTC lands), Tahoe City (USFS and CA State Park Lands), and Crystal Bay (NV State Lands and USFS), and private landowner's.
Completed
2017
2018
2021
$100,000
Patricia Maloney (pemaloney@ucdavis.edu)
04/26/2017
01/28/2022
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Organizations
Organizations
| California Tahoe Conservancy (CTC) | Whitney Brennan - California Tahoe Conservancy (CTC) | |||
| Tahoe Fund (Tahoe Fund) | Amy Berry - Tahoe Fund (Tahoe Fund) | |||
| UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) | Patricia Maloney - UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) |
EIP Details
EIP Basics
EIP Basics
02.02.01.0017 - North Shore Sugar Pine Restoration for Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak Recovery
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
| Acres of Habitat Restored or Enhanced | [Action Performed: Restored], [Habitat Type: Forested Upland] | 150 | acres |
Reported Performance Measures
Reported Performance Measures
| Acres of Habitat Restored or Enhanced | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Total | Units | ||
| Action Performed | Habitat Type | ||||||
| Enhanced | Forested Upland | 10 | 10 | acres | |||
| Restored | Forested Upland | 90 | 130 | 220 | acres | ||
| Restored | Sugar Pine Forest | 20 | 20 | acres | |||
| Total | 10 | 90 | 130 | 20 | 250 | acres | |
Funding
Expected Funding
Expected Funding
$100,000
$100,000
$0
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| California Tahoe Conservancy (CTC) | $67,000 | $67,000 | $0 |
| Tahoe Fund (Tahoe Fund) | $33,000 | $33,000 | $0 |
| Grand Total | $100,000 | $100,000 | $0 |
Reported Expenditures
Reported Expenditures
| Total | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Tahoe Conservancy | $63,900 | $0 | $14,400 | $36,500 | $13,000 | $0 |
| Tahoe Fund | $36,100 | $4,100 | $3,000 | $2,500 | $9,000 | $17,500 |
| Grand Total | $100,000 | $4,100 | $17,400 | $39,000 | $22,000 | $17,500 |
Photos
California Conservation Corp/CCC and UCD prepare for planting in Tahoe Vista.
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Sugar pine seedling distribution to the public at the UCD Tahoe City Field Station, fall 2021
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CCC and UCD planting sugar pine in Tahoe Vista November 2019
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Collection bags from 100 sugar pine trees stored at the Tahoe Environmental Research Center before transporting to CalFire's LA Moran Reforestation Center in Davis, CA for seed extraction.
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Contract cone collector, Tom Burt, using a big shot to collect sugar pine cones on Lake Tahoe's north shore.
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Line on a sugar pine limb to collect cones.
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Newly constructed lath house at the UCD Tahoe City Field Station. Sugar pine seedlings will be maintained in this lath house till out-planting for reforestation.
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Planting at Crystal Bay 2
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Planting at Crystal Bay 3
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Planting at Crystal Bay I
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Sugar pine seedlings growing at the USFS Placerville Nursery. Will be moved to Tahoe in April 2019.
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UCD Lath house at Tahoe City Field Station and 10,000 sugar pine seedlings for reforestation.
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Links with ecosystem health, resource conservation (vegetation, soil, water), and biological diversity are central to the health of Lake Tahoe. Sugar pine restoration in these mountain pine beetle outbreak areas will maintain sugar pine numbers and populations. In addition, such large-scale bark beetle outbreaks can drastically reduce carbon sequestration and restoration plantings will promote and sustain long-term carbon storage in these areas as well as important watershed properties in upland forests.
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Notes
Notes
| 01/12/2022 12:10 PM | Patricia Maloney | In 2021 we sent out postcards for distributing seedlings to local land owners around the Tahoe Basin, including seedlings going to land owners from the Caldor Fire. In addition a manuscript was published in the California Native Plant Society Journal, Artemisia, in June 2021, Vol.48, No.2, pp.9-12, titled: Amplifying Resilience to Drought in the Lake Tahoe Basin, author: Patricia E. Maloney. | ||
| 01/13/2021 3:11 PM | Patricia Maloney | In spring 2020 UCD planted the remaining sugar pine trees in both California and Nevada with the CCC. | ||
| 01/07/2020 1:01 PM | Patricia Maloney | In spring 2019 the 10,000 sugar pine seedlings were transported from the USF Placerville Nursery to the UCD Tahoe City Field Station. There the seedlings are maintained and all were tagged with family identification (source tree id) for out-planting. During the month of November UCD and the CCC out-planted ~2,500 sugar pine seedlings at Crystal Bay, Kings Beach, Tahoe Vista, Carnelian Bay, Dollar Hill, Rocky Ridge, and Sugar Pine Point State Park. The remaining 2,500 will be planted out in spring 2020. | ||
| 12/17/2018 12:02 PM | Patricia Maloney | 10,000 sugar pine seedlings are growing at the USFS Placerville Nursery and will be moved to Tahoe in April 2019. UCD just finished the construction of a new lath house at the Tahoe City Field Station where the 10,000 sugar pine seedlings will be maintained till out-planting in spring 2020. | ||
| 01/02/2018 4:09 PM | Patricia Maloney | Cones have been collected, seed extracted by CalFire, and seed are now in stratification at the USFS' Placerville Nursery until sowing in March 2018. |