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Forest health work is underway at Van Sickle Bi-State Park to reduce wildfire risk and improve safety and habitat.
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The thinning of trees in the Genoa, NV and Virginia City Highlands areas has produced piles of branches which will be burned sometime within t…
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The tree-thinning treatment, which will continue through mid-April, is part of the Kern Mountains Landscape Restoration Project.
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Natural Resource Specialist Kellie Dobrescu says that hand-thinning is used when pinyon-juniper expansion is less dominate.
Thinning is done as an effort to restore the area to pre-Comstock era conditions and to create a defensible space in case of wildfires.
Thinning operations are expected to continue throughout fall until winter weather sets in for the season on National Forest lands above Incline Village on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe.
Thinning of trees for fuels reduction and forest health is scheduled to resume this week on National Forest System lands between Fallen Leaf Road and Camp Richardson Corral and in the Spring Creek Homeowners Tract on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe.
The Forest Service has resumed thinning trees for fuels reduction and forest health on approximately 340 acres on the east side of Highway 267 above Kings Beach.
Multiple groups are coming together to remove hazardous fuels in the Sierra, to improve the overall health of the forest. Officials say tree removal is even more important, during the extended drought, making the forest more resistant to catastrophic fire.
Thinning of trees for fuels reduction and forest health begins this week on approximately 340 acres of National Forest System lands on the east side of Brockway Summit north of Speckled Avenue near Kings Beach.