02.02 - Forest Restoration Program

Description

The top priority of the Forest Health program is to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration to match the pace and scale of climate change. Partners are building new relationships with utility companies and private industry to accelerate work on the ground. Expanding the forest restoration program will also bring greater benefits to Lake Tahoe’s ecosystem, creating more wildlife habitat, more carbon sequestration, and more clean water to Lake Tahoe’s tributaries.

Action Priorities

EIP Action Priority
Restore and Protect Native Fish and Wildlife
Restore Native Vegetation and Forest Communities
Implement Prescribed Fire

EIP Plans

Forest Action Plan

Published by the California Tahoe Conservancy. August 2019. The Lake Tahoe Basin Forest Action Plan contains three overarching strategies that support completing and maintaining all wildland-urban interface treatments, and implementing large-landscape restoration. 1. Scale up to match the scale of the solution to the scale of the threat. 2. Build capacity for all phases of the forest landscape management cycle. 3. Leverage technology for rapid, large-scale, more efficient implementation.

View More Details

Forest Action Plan

Tahoe Climate Resilience Action Strategy 2022

THE LAKE TAHOE CLIMATE RESILIENCE ACTION STRATEGY builds on existing Tahoe Basin climate and environmental improvement plans to identify five focus areas that will advance equity, create jobs, and build resilience for the Basin’s extraordinary natural resources, 57,000 residents, and an economy that supports 15 million annual visitors. We must act now to preserve and protect Lake Tahoe for this and future generations.

View More Details