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The primary objectives of this project are to reduce hazardous fuels and create defensible space within 150 feet of park infrastructure at Sand Harbor. The brush in the park is largely mature bitterbrush with minor amounts of huckleberry oak, tobacco brush, green leaf manzanita with several species of willow growing in wetter areas. Mature brush will be cut using chainsaws to reduce continuous fuelbeds. Large willow clumps will be cut in selected locations adjacent to picnic sites. Hazard trees will be removed and some thinning of live trees will be done. Material will be chipped and hauled off site. Dwarf mistletoe in Jeffrey pine will be removed, when possible.
Implementation
2021
2021
2024
$75,000
Anna Higgins (ahiggins@forestry.nv.gov)
12/07/2021
01/24/2024
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02.01.01.0122 - Sand Harbor Hazardous Fuels Reduction/Defensible Space
This project is on the EIP 5-year list.
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
| 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] | 25 | acres |
Reported Performance Measures
Reported Performance Measures
| Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment | ||||||||
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| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | Total | Units | ||||
| Initial or Maintenance Treatment | Property Ownership | Treatment Type | Treatment Zone | |||||
| Initial | Nevada State Parks | Chipping | Community Defense Zone | 7 | 19 | 2 | 28 | acres |
| Initial | Nevada State Parks | Hand Thinning | Community Defense Zone | 7 | 3 | 10 | acres | |
| Initial | Nevada State Parks | Prescribed Burning | Community Defense Zone | 2 | 2 | acres | ||
| Total | 14 | 22 | 4 | 40 | acres | |||
Funding
Expected Funding
Expected Funding
Reported Expenditures
Reported Expenditures
| Total | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | |
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| Tahoe Bonds Act | $52,327 | $7,243 | $29,476 | $15,608 |
| Grand Total | $52,327 | $7,243 | $29,476 | $15,608 |
Photos
Typical mature bitterbrush occupying picnic area
(Timing: Before) (~11,487 KB)
Post treatment photo taken in September 2022. Hand thinned and chipped bark beetle infested white fir and decadent shrubs. Retained some shrubs and Jeffrey pine and incense cedar saplings.
(Timing: After) (~176 KB)
Bark beetle infested white fir with heavy fuel loading in between Sand Harbor boat ramp and East Shore trail. Before treatment in August 2022.
(Timing: Before) (~174 KB)
Post treatment west of Highway 28
(Timing: After) (~11,506 KB)
Fuel condition near visitor center
(Timing: Before) (~11,066 KB)
Continuous fuel bed of mature brush in picnic area
(Timing: Before) (~9,994 KB)
Chipping brush removed from picnic area. NDF crew and equipment.
(Timing: During) (~9,793 KB)
Clearing brush along road, electrical box and fire hydrant.
(Timing: During) (~8,642 KB)
White fir tree dying from fir engraver (bark beetle) infestation. White fir is the least drought-tolerant native conifer in the Tahoe Basin.
(Timing: Before) (~72 KB)
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This project will reduce forest fuels by thinning both brush and trees. Plant diversity will increase with more sunlight to forest floor. Age class diversity in both brush and conifers will improve as well as species diversity in the conifers. Material cut will be chipped and removed from site to aid in fuel reduction.
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02.01.01.0122 - Sand Harbor Hazardous Fuels Reduction/Defensible Space is associated with following groups of projects.
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Notes
Notes
| 01/04/2023 1:17 PM | Anna Higgins | 1/4/2023 Hand thinning, chipping, and pile building continued in 2022. Increases in bark beetle activity were noted this summer and a sanitation thin was conducted on 10 acres to remove and chip smaller white fir trees actively infested with fir engraver bark beetles. Additional bark beetle mortality is occurring in the large overstory Jeffrey pines and eight large, recently killed Jeffrey pines were removed via a crane truck that posed a hazard to Highway 28. |
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| 12/07/2021 3:30 PM | Roland Shaw | Implementation began in October 2021 in the picnic area at Sand Harbor and continued for two weeks. The picnic area and administrative site will be completed in 2022. Defensible space will be created around the park housing and will connect to clearing work being completed on the NV Energy 4100 line. |