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Overview
Basics
Basics
The Spooner landscape resilience Project (Spooner LRP) is a 300 acre thinning located east and north of Spooner Lake in Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park. This project focuses on removing trees too large for hand crews. All felled trees will be removed through a service contract using a helicopter. This project also includes enhancing aspen stands by removing designated conifers. The project is designed to increase forest resilience to disturbance events, particularly drought and wild fire. Tree tops and limbs were chipped and delivered to the American Renewable Power 20MW biomass plant in Loyalton, CA. Logs were trucked to the Sierra Pacific Industries mill in Quincy, CA.
Implementation
2018
2018
2024
$2,700,000
Anna Higgins (ahiggins@forestry.nv.gov)
12/13/2017
01/24/2024
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Organizations
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EIP Details
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Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
| Linear Feet of Stream Channel Restored or Enhanced | None | linear feet | |
| 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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Total | Units | ||
| Action Performed | Habitat Type | ||||||||
| Enhanced | Aspen | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 30 | acres | |
| Enhanced | Forested Upland | 290 | 6 | 296 | acres | ||||
| Enhanced | Late-Seral/Old Growth | 5 | 5 | acres | |||||
| Total | 300 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 331 | acres | |
| Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Total | Units | ||||
| Initial or Maintenance Treatment | Property Ownership | Treatment Type | Treatment Zone | ||||||||
| Initial | Nevada State Parks | Hand Thinning | Community Defense Zone | 30 | 30 | acres | |||||
| Initial | Nevada State Parks | Hand Thinning | General Forest | 120 | 0 | 120 | acres | ||||
| Initial | Nevada State Parks | Hand Thinning | Threat Zone | 150 | 0 | 150 | acres | ||||
| Initial | Nevada State Parks | Helicopter Yarding | Community Defense Zone | 30 | 30 | acres | |||||
| Initial | Nevada State Parks | Helicopter Yarding | General Forest | 120 | 120 | acres | |||||
| Initial | Nevada State Parks | Helicopter Yarding | Threat Zone | 150 | 150 | acres | |||||
| Initial | Nevada State Parks | Prescribed Burning | Community Defense Zone | 29 | 15 | 158 | 11 | 213 | acres | ||
| Total | 300 | 300 | 29 | 15 | 158 | 11 | 813 | acres | |||
| Tons of Biomass Utilized | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Total | Units | ||
| Property Ownership | Type of Utilization | ||||||||
| Nevada State Parks | Energy Generation | 2,239 | 2,239 | tons | |||||
| Nevada State Parks | Other | 5,242 | 5,242 | tons | |||||
| Total | 7,481 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7,481 | tons | |
Funding
Expected Funding
Expected Funding
$2,700,000
$2,692,032
$7,968
| Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Tahoe License Plate Program (NDSL) | $500,000 | $500,000 | $0 |
| Tahoe Bonds Act (NDSL) | $2,192,032 | $2,192,032 | $0 |
| Grand Total | $2,692,032 | $2,692,032 | $0 |
Reported Expenditures
Reported Expenditures
| Total | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Tahoe License Plate Program | $500,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $500,000 |
| Tahoe Bonds Act | $2,269,767 | $9,300 | $48,243 | $20,192 | $0 | $86,012 | $2,106,020 |
| Grand Total | $2,769,767 | $9,300 | $48,243 | $20,192 | $0 | $86,012 | $2,606,020 |
Photos
Diameter growth typical of trees in this project area. Competition is severly limiting additional diameter growth.
(Timing: After) (~2,364 KB)
Pile burning in the winter months.
(Timing: During) (~4,598 KB)
Area adjacent to the Tahoe Rim Trail that has been thinned.
(Timing: After) (~453 KB)
Area thinned to improve individual tree vigor and modify fire behavior.
(Timing: During) (~2,463 KB)
Bell 204 Helicopter used to fly cut trees
(Timing: During) (~1,845 KB)
Drone view of log landing and chip pile. Loader will fill waiting chip van with biomass for American Renewable Power plant in Loyalton, CA.
(Timing: During) (~7,577 KB)
Gap occupied by aspen following conifer removal.
(Timing: After) (~2,822 KB)
Landing site, ripped, fenced, signed, and mulched following product removal.
(Timing: After) (~3,182 KB)
Newly established bitterbrush and mountain big sagebrush seedlings in landing area.
(Timing: After) (~3,124 KB)
Understory vegetation in area where conifers were thinned.
(Timing: After) (~3,013 KB)
Other Details
Watersheds
No watersheds set for this project.
Threshold Categories
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This will help increase age class diversity in the conifer, enhance upper elevation late seral forests, reduce forest fuels, and help maintain populations of sugar pine, aspen and incense cedar.
Local and Regional Plans
Related Projects
Related Projects
02.02.01.0018 - Spooner Landscape Resilience Project is associated with following groups of projects.
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Notes
Notes
| 01/03/2023 10:17 AM | Anna Higgins | 1/3/2022 158 acres total acres burned (1450 piles) in January/February & November 2022 |
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| 03/31/2021 2:12 PM | Roland Shaw | 3/31/21 29 acres of hand piles burned. There are 300 acres of piles. | ||
| 01/15/2021 11:56 AM | Roland Shaw | 1/15/21 The Spooner Pile Burn Plan was approved 10/19/20 and ignition will begin January 2021. There are 300 acres of hand piles to burn. If conditions are favorable for burning it may be completed in late 2022 or early 2023. | ||
| 01/14/2020 1:31 PM | Roland Shaw | Reported 300 acres hand thinning in 2019. That work included cutting suppressed and damaged smaller trees and hand piling limbwood and broken tops remaining after helicopter yarding. The hand piles will be burned when conditions are favorable. Rehabilitation of the landing site was initiated in the fall of 2018 following product removal and continued into 2019. Sixty-five percent of the one and a quarter acre tract has established vegetation. Efforts in 2020 will establish vegetation on the remaining 35 percent. Eighteen (18) species of plants including conifer seedlings have been identified. No cheat grass has been observed. The 5242 tons of biomass removed in the category "Other" for 2018 is saw log weight. | ||
| 01/11/2019 4:01 PM | Roland Shaw | Contractor was Markit! Forest Management out of Colorado Springs Colorado. R&R Conner Helicopters, Conner, Montana did the aerial yarding with a Bell 204. Operations began on September 13, 2018 and flying was completed on October 18th. Product removal was finished in November along with ripping and reshaping the landing area. Park system road (0.85 mile) was used to remove product and the haul route through the Tahoe Basin was Highway 28 north to Highway 267 and over Brockway Summit to Truckee. Sawlog volume removed was 905 MBF, 210 truckloads weighing 5,242.1 tons. The sawlog weight combined with biomass (chip) weight of 2,239 tons totals 7,481 tons of green material removed. Multiple wildlife surveys were completed by Nevada Department of Wildlife prior to project implementation. Targeted surveys were done for California spotted owl, northern goshawk, and Pacific marten in order to identify any existing nests or dens for those species. None were found, but known habitat needs of those species in nearby parts of the Tahoe Basin were used to make management recommendations for the Spooner LRP. Additionally, survey data for existing raptor nests, small mammal communities, and cavity-nesting birds in the project area were used to make management recommendations prior to project implementation. |