Forest Health
Lake Tahoe EIP

Truckee-Tahoe Regional BurnBot Pilot

Project Number
02.01.01.0144
Action Priority
Reduce Hazardous Fuels
Implementers
North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District
Primary Contact
Caitlin Meyer (cmeyer@tahoefund.org)
Stage
Planning/Design
Duration
2023 - 2024
Community Wildfire Protection Program Reduce Hazardous Fuels
A broad coalition of stakeholders, including the Tahoe Fund, North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District, Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team, Martis Fund, and the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, are bringing BurnBot to Tahoe to pilot and showcase its potential to help increase the pace and scale of forest health treatments safely and effectively. We hope this two-part pilot will lead to the incorporation of BurnBot into our regional forest health and wildfire prevention strategy. BurnBot provides remote-operated, tech-driven systems for both mastication and prescribed burns that make each process faster, safer and easier to carry out.

Key Accomplishments

Accomplishments to be provided upon completion of project

Threshold Categories

  • Vegetation Preservation
Burn Bot Demonstration 
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Credit: Tahoe Fund Burn Bot Demonstration

Location

Expenditures

No expenditures provided

Photos

During
Burn bot demonstration
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Credit: Tahoe Fund
Burn bot demonstration
Burn Bot Demonstration
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Credit: Tahoe Fund
Burn Bot Demonstration
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Project Fact Sheet Data as of 08/11/2026