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Lake Tahoe EIP

Spooner Landscape Resilience Project

Project Number
02.02.01.0018
Action Priority
Restore Native Vegetation and Forest Communities
Implementers
Nevada Tahoe Resource Team – Nevada Division of Forestry
Primary Contact
Anna Higgins (ahiggins@forestry.nv.gov)
Stage
Implementation
Duration
2018 - 2024
Forest Restoration Program Restore Native Vegetation and Forest Communities
The Spooner landscape resilience Project (Spooner LRP) is a 300 acre thinning located east and north of Spooner Lake in Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park. This project focuses on removing trees too large for hand crews. All felled trees will be removed through a service contract using a helicopter. This project also includes enhancing aspen stands by removing designated conifers. The project is designed to increase forest resilience to disturbance events, particularly drought and wild fire. Tree tops and limbs were chipped and delivered to the American Renewable Power 20MW biomass plant in Loyalton, CA. Logs were trucked to the Sierra Pacific Industries mill in Quincy, CA.

Key Accomplishments

  • Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment: 813 acres
  • Acres of Habitat Restored or Enhanced: 331 acres
  • Tons of Biomass Utilized: 7,481 tons

Threshold Categories

  • Vegetation Preservation
Pile burning in the winter months. (Timing: During) (~4,598 KB) Credit: Anna Higgins Pile burning in the winter months.

Location

Expenditures

Expenditures by Funding Source to Date: $2,769,767
(Estimated Cost: $2,700,000)
Lake Tahoe License Plate Prog... (NDSL): $500,000

Tahoe Bonds Act (NDSL): $2,269,767

Photos

During
Area thinned to improve individual tree vigor and modify fire behavior. (Timing: During) (~2,463 KB) Credit: Roland Shaw
Area thinned to improve individual tree vigor and modify fire behavior.
Drone view of log landing and chip pile. Loader will fill waiting chip van with biomass for American Renewable Power plant in Loyalton, CA. (Timing: During) (~7,577 KB) Credit: Grahame Ross
Drone view of log landing and chip pile. Loader will fill waiting chip van with biomass for American Renewable Power plant in Loyalton, CA.
After
Diameter growth typical of trees in this project area. Competition is severly limiting additional diameter growth. (Timing: After) (~2,364 KB) Credit: Roland Shaw
Diameter growth typical of trees in this project area. Competition is severly limiting additional diameter growth.
Understory vegetation in area where conifers were thinned. (Timing: After) (~3,013 KB) Credit: Roland Shaw
Understory vegetation in area where conifers were thinned.
Project Fact Sheet Data as of 04/19/2024