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Lake Tahoe EIP

North Shore Sugar Pine Restoration for Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak Recovery

Project Number
02.02.01.0017
Action Priority
Restore Native Vegetation and Forest Communities
Implementers
UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center
Primary Contact
Patricia Maloney (pemaloney@ucdavis.edu)
Stage
Completed
Duration
2017 - 2021
Forest Restoration Program Restore Native Vegetation and Forest Communities
Our project will collect seedlings from 100 local and diverse sugar pine trees from Crystal Bay to Tahoe City for reforestation and mountain pine beetle outbreak recovery. Five years of drought has resulted in significant mountain pine beetle-mediated mortality in sugar pine trees on the north shore of Lake Tahoe. We will collect and cultivate sugar pine seed and seedlings in 2017-2018 so that in 2020 2-year old seedlings can be out-planted at north shore restoration sites at Tahoe Vista (USFS, CTC Lands), Carnelian Bay (USFS, CTC Lands), Dollar Hill (CA State Parks and CTC lands), Tahoe City (USFS and CA State Park Lands), and Crystal Bay (NV State Lands and USFS), and private landowner's.

Key Accomplishments

  • Acres of Habitat Restored or Enhanced: 250 acres

Threshold Categories

  • Vegetation Preservation
Contract cone collector, Tom Burt, using a big shot to collect sugar pine cones on Lake Tahoe's north shore. (Timing: During) (~1,717 KB) Credit: http://www.kolotv.com/content/news/Sugar-pine-forest-rehabilitation-begins-in-Tahoe-443343243.html Contract cone collector, Tom Burt, using a big shot to collect sugar pine cones on Lake Tahoe's north shore.

Location

Expenditures

Expenditures by Funding Source to Date: $100,000
(Estimated Cost: $100,000)
California Tahoe Conservancy (CTC): $63,900

Tahoe Fund (Tahoe Fund): $36,100

Photos

During
Line on a sugar pine limb to collect cones. (Timing: During) (~1,583 KB) Credit: http://www.kolotv.com/content/news/Sugar-pine-forest-rehabilitation-begins-in-Tahoe-443343243.html
Line on a sugar pine limb to collect cones.
Newly constructed lath house at the UCD Tahoe City Field Station. Sugar pine seedlings will be maintained in this lath house till out-planting for reforestation. (Timing: During) (~1,698 KB) Credit: P. E. Maloney
Newly constructed lath house at the UCD Tahoe City Field Station. Sugar pine seedlings will be maintained in this lath house till out-planting for reforestation.
Planting at Crystal Bay 3 (Timing: During) (~130 KB) Credit: P.E. Maloney
Planting at Crystal Bay 3
Planting at Crystal Bay 2 (Timing: During) (~116 KB) Credit: P.E. Maloney
Planting at Crystal Bay 2
Planting at Crystal Bay I (Timing: During) (~123 KB) Credit: P.E. Maloney
Planting at Crystal Bay I
CCC and UCD planting sugar pine in Tahoe Vista November 2019 (Timing: During) (~128 KB) Credit: P.E. Maloney
CCC and UCD planting sugar pine in Tahoe Vista November 2019
Project Fact Sheet Data as of 04/25/2024