Wildfire

Expect smokey skies Tuesday ahead of a storm system as the U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will hold prescribed fire operations in the High Meadow area near South Lake Tahoe and above State Route 28 near Skunk Harbor Tuesday, Dec. 11. Crews expect to burn two acres at each location, weather permitting. Operations will continue as weather and conditions allow.

Fuels management crews with the U.S. Forest Service will conduct prescribed fire operations Wednesday near Grand Avenue on Lake Tahoe's west shore near Tahoe Pines. Crews expect to burn one acre, weather permitting. Operations will continue as weather and conditions allow.

A prescribed fire is planned for upper Kingsbury Grade near North Benjamin Drive at Lake Tahoe South Shore Thursday, Nov. 15.
U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will burn around a quarter acre, conditions permitting. Across the lake, prescribed burning is also slated for the Bunker Road area near Tahoe City. Both operations are scheduled to last through the day.

U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will continue prescribed fire operations in the Timberland area of the West Shore, today, Monday, October 29, 2012. Crews anticipate burning three acres over the next several days, conditions permitting.

U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will begin prescribed fire operations in the Timberland area on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe Tuesday, Oct. 23. Crews anticipate burning three to 10 acres per day, for a total of 10 to 20 acres, conditions permitting.

The cause of a Pine Nut wildfire that cost more than $1 million to fight may never be known.East Fork Fire District Investigator Capt. Terry Taylor said leads have been exhausted in determining the...

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency would like to invite the community to its Community Appreciation Day Open House and Lake Spirit Awards on Thursday, September 27 from 4 – 7 p.m. at the TRPA offices at 128 Market Street in Stateline.
This year’s theme is “Making Progress” and will focus on the Regional Plan Update and the 5th anniversary of the Angora Wildfire. Partners include the Tahoe Science Consortium who will show a pictorial display of the Angora Wildfire and restoration efforts.

UPDATE 8PM: The U.S. Forest Service reports Friday night that the fire burning on the Douglas County side of Lake Tahoe on public land off of Elks Point Road has been contained at 2.6 acres. Cheva Heck, spokeswoman for the Forest Service, said local government resources assigned to the fire are being released. An engine will remain at the fire site overnight. The cause of the fire is under investigation. "We have no reports with lightning or problems with power lines. The fire is believed to be human caused," she said.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed Thursday a district court ruling upholding Lake Tahoe area environmental analysis for the Angora fire area fuels reduction project.
The Angora Restoration Project was designed to protect wildlife habitat as well as reduce long-term wildfire risk to Lake Tahoe area communities. Two environmental groups, Earth Island Institute and Center for Biological Diversity, tried to stop arguing it would harm the black-backed woodpecker.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - A bobcat kitten apparently abandoned during the chaos of a California wildfire has been rescued by firefighters and taken to a shelter for treatment of burns.The San Francisco Ch...

The latest Tahoe Project interview is with Leona Allen, a lifelong Tahoe resident, a Lake Valley Fire Protection District firefighter and a founder of the Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy. Hosted by Michelle Sweeney, Allen shares insight into wildfire preparedness, her family's experience of loss in the Angora fire and the success of the Fire Academy where she is among the program faculty at Lake Tahoe Community College.

MANTON, Calif. - Firefighters in Northern California on Monday struggled to gain control of a growing wildfire that has destroyed at least seven homes and forced thousands of rural residents to ...

Lake Tahoe will be thrust in the spotlight again when scientists, public agencies and elected officials meet Aug. 13 for the 16th annual Lake Tahoe Summit at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course. To be discussed with great interest is the protection and health of Lake Tahoe's fragile environment and economy.
“The health of the environment and the health of the economy at Tahoe are linked,” Derek Kauneckis, political science professor and researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno said. “And the collaborations that have been established at the Lake have set the stage for future efforts.”

Training for a Lake Tahoe Master Gardener program will begin this September in South Lake Tahoe.
The program is a partnership between the University of California Cooperative Extension Central Sierra and the Tahoe Resource Conservation District.
Participants who complete the 50-hour training course will be certified Lake Tahoe Master Gardeners who then can provide the community with research-based information about home horticulture and gardening.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered the National Guard to help local agencies fight the Robbers Fire in Placer County.
Five Black Hawk helicopters were dispatched this morning.
A specially-trained incident management team from Cal Fire is also now coordinating the attack on the Robbers Fire.

The Lake Tahoe Science Consortium collaborated with University of Nevada, Reno’s Department of Art to create “Visualizing Change,” a photographic art expedition intended to convey concepts in environmental restoration at Lake Tahoe to the scientific community and general public. The exhibit is located in the Prim Desert Research Library at Sierra Nevada College at Lake Tahoe’s Incline Village. It features photography and oil painting contributions from eight noted artists and is free and open to the public through July 27.

BIG PINE, Calif. (AP) - A wildfire burning near a main highway in the eastern Sierra Nevada is nearly surrounded.The 1,103-acre blaze west of Highway 395 in Inyo County was more than 85 percent con...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Cars were burned to nothing but charred metal and only concrete remained of many homes in the neighborhoods most damaged by the worst wildfire in Colorado history....

Residents and visitors are urged to help protect public safety and the environment during the Fourth of July holiday by keeping wildfire prevention in mind.
The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management unit reminds folks that having fireworks of any kind — and sparklers are considered fireworks — is illegal in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Campfires are not permitted on Forest Service beaches or in the general forest. For Wednesday, July 4, 2012, only, personal barbecues are allowed at Nevada, Pope and Baldwin beaches but are not permitted on any other Forest Service beaches or in the general forest.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District will hold an interagency wildfire evacuation drill from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday in the Zephyr Heights and Zephyr Knoll neigh...