Lower Kingsbury Shaded Fuel Break

The Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District will treat approximately 12 acres of US Forest Service lands to the North of the Lower Kingsbury community. Treatment will consist of hand treatment, prescribed burning, and forest fuels mastication to create a “Shaded Fuel Break” as defined by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group; Fuel breaks built in timbered areas where the trees on the break are thinned and pruned to reduce the fire potential yet retain enough crown canopy to make a less favorable microclimate for surface fires.