Project
02.01.01.0107 - Bon Pland Hazardous Fuels Reduction
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Overview

Basics

Basics
This project is an 85 acre fuel break located on both the north and south side of Bon Pland Creek. This is the first major drainage south of Tunnel Creek. The proposed treatment will augment fuel reduction completed from Sand Harbor north to Tunnel Creek east of Highway 28. Project area is located in the lower reaches, west end, of the drainage.

Implementation
2019
2019
2025
$299,200
Anna Higgins (ahiggins@forestry.nv.gov)
04/09/2019
01/22/2024
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Location Information Location Notes
West end of Bon Pland drainage on the north side of creek.

Organizations

Organizations
Nevada Tahoe Resource Team (NTRT) Meredith Gosejohan - Nevada Tahoe Resource Team – Nevada Division of State Lands (NDSL)
Nevada Tahoe Resource Team – Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF) Anna Higgins - Nevada Tahoe Resource Team – Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF)
Nevada Tahoe Resource Team – Nevada Division of State Lands (NDSL) Brent Moore - Nevada Tahoe Resource Team – Nevada Division of State Lands (NDSL)
U.S. Forest Service - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (USFS - LTBMU) Brian Garrett - U.S. Forest Service - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (USFS - LTBMU)

EIP Details

EIP Basics

EIP Basics
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02 - Forest Health
02.01 - Community Wildfire Protection Program
Reduce Hazardous Fuels
02.01.01.0107 - Bon Pland Hazardous Fuels Reduction

This project is on the EIP 5-year list.

Performance Measures

Expected Performance Measures

Expected Performance Measures
Acres of Habitat Protected [EIP Focal Species: Other priority species], [Habitat Type: Forested Upland] 85 acres
Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment [Initial or Maintenance Treatment: Initial], [Property Ownership: Nevada State Parks], [Treatment Type: Prescribed Burning], [Treatment Zone: Community Defense Zone] 40 acres
Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment [Initial or Maintenance Treatment: Initial], [Property Ownership: Nevada State Parks], [Treatment Type: Hand Thinning], [Treatment Zone: Threat Zone] 45 acres
Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment [Initial or Maintenance Treatment: Initial], [Property Ownership: Nevada State Parks], [Treatment Type: Hand Thinning], [Treatment Zone: Community Defense Zone] 40 acres
Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment [Initial or Maintenance Treatment: Initial], [Property Ownership: Nevada State Parks], [Treatment Type: Prescribed Burning], [Treatment Zone: Threat Zone] 45 acres

Reported Performance Measures

Reported Performance Measures
Acres of SEZ Restored or Enhanced
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total Units
Action Performed
Enhanced 1 0 0 0 2 3 acres
Total 1 0 0 0 2 3 acres
Acres of Habitat Protected
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total Units
EIP Focal Species Habitat Type
Other priority species Forested Upland 8 1 11 9 60 89 acres
Total 8 1 11 9 60 89 acres
Acres of Habitat Restored or Enhanced
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total Units
Action Performed Habitat Type
Enhanced Forested Upland 11 9 60 80 acres
Enhanced SEZ/Wetland 1 0 1 acres
Total 1 0 11 9 60 81 acres
Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total Units
Initial or Maintenance Treatment Property Ownership Treatment Type Treatment Zone
Initial Nevada State Parks Hand Thinning Threat Zone 8 1 11 60 80 acres
Initial Nevada State Parks Prescribed Burning Threat Zone 9 17 26 acres
Total 8 1 11 9 77 106 acres

Funding

Expected Funding

Expected Funding
$299,200
$299,200
$0
Total
Lake Tahoe Restoration Act (USFS - LTBMU) $249,920 $249,920 $0
Tahoe Bonds Act (NDSL) $49,280 $49,280 $0
Grand Total $299,200 $299,200 $0

Reported Expenditures

Reported Expenditures
Total 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
Tahoe Bonds Act $74,641 $0 $16,818 $35,309 $5,027 $17,487
U.S. Forest Service $153,990 $153,990 $0 $0 $0 $0
Grand Total $228,631 $153,990 $16,818 $35,309 $5,027 $17,487

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Watersheds

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Threshold Categories

  • Increase diversity in age class of brush community and grass/forb community by cutting crown sprouting brush species and thinning conifers. Reducing the amount of fuel on site.

Local and Regional Plans

Related Projects

Related Projects

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Notes

Notes
01/03/2023 10:28 AM Anna Higgins 1/3/2022
211 piles burned on 9 acres in December 2022.
01/15/2021 12:17 PM Roland Shaw 1/15/21 Very limited activity in 2020 due to covid restrictions.
01/28/2020 4:51 PM Beth Vollmer The acres of habitat protected (8 acres) is focused on retaining large snag habitat for both roosting and potential nesting for ospreys and bald eagles. There is an active osprey nest immediately adjacent to the project area. It also is foraging habitat for goshawks. The goshawk territory is up the drainage and up upslope. The treatment area is designed to modify fire behavior so that a fire burning either upslope or across the slope advancing from the southwest or west will be a surface fire and hand crews could use a direct attack approach in suppressing it. Some of the large snag habitat is sugar pine and another objective is to create conditions favorable for the establishment of sugar pine seedlings.

The acres of habitat restored or enhanced (1 acre), habitat type – SEZ/Wetland. When completed there will be at least two acres that are treated. Objective is to remove enough conifers to allow increased sunlight and stimulate the regeneration of willows and other riparian vegetation that has nearly disappeared due to the dense conifer canopy. The treated SEZ will be part of a continuous fuel break that straddles Bon Pland drainage. The willow community has largely died out but there are remnant clumps. Bird species dependent on deciduous riparian vegetation will utilize the enhanced habitat.

Much of what is included in the statement above for the SEZ applies here too. The deciduous vegetation does hold and armor the streambank better than the conifers so re-establishing the willows and other riparian vegetation that includes other shrubs such as ribes, dogwood, and elderberry along with the grass and forbs usually found in these SEZs. This does reduce erosion potential in a drainage that flows directly into Lake Tahoe.
01/14/2020 2:56 PM Roland Shaw This project is a continuation of the SNPLMA Round 11 Tunnel Creek project (located in Bon Pland Creek) which was terminated due to timing constraints. The project is now funded with Tahoe Bond Act funding. Fuel reduction is focused on the lower end of the drainage on both sides of the creek east of Highway 28.