Community Wildfire Protection Program
Implement Defensible Space on Public and Private Parcels and Utility Corridors
This project focuses on fuels work on non-federal lands with the goal of creating resilient corridors along NV Energy’s electrical lines on all lands. This project also includes electrical system upgrades across all lands, including federal, in the Tahoe Basin. Together, the fuel management work and electrical infrastructure upgrades minimize wildfire risk as called for in NV Energy’s Natural Disaster Prevention Plan (NDPP).
This project is linked to EIP Project # 02.01.02.0016 which focuses on fuels management along NV Energy’s electrical lines on federal lands managed by the US Forest Service-Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.
Key Accomplishments
Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment: 544 acres
Threshold Categories
Vegetation Preservation
Wildlife
NLTFPD fuels crews conducting resilience corridors treatments on state lands along Incline 4100 near Sand Harbor
Location
Expenditures
Expenditures by Funding Source to Date: $600,000 (Estimated Cost: $11,000,000)
Nevada Energy (NV Energy): $600,000
Photos
During
NV Energy host site visit at an active pole replacement site at Ponderosa Ranch. Picture shows the existing pole and replacement hole and excavation materials bagged for replacement.
LTBMU Forest Supervisor Erick Walker attends site visit for a system hardening (pole replacement) project at Ponderosa Ranch
After
Finished fuels treatments along Incline 4100, near Sand Harbor
Finished Treatments on state lands along Incline 4100, near Sand Harbor