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Lake Tahoe EIP

Washoe Tribe Rx and Cultural Burning Capacity Building Grant

Project Number
02.01.01.0156
Action Priority
Reduce Hazardous Fuels
Implementers
Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California
Supporting Agencies
U.S. Forest Service - Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
Primary Contact
Cale Pete (cale.pete@washoetribe.us)

Stage
Planning/Design
Duration
2025 - ongoing
Total Project Cost
$1,500,000
Funding Request
$300,000
Community Wildfire Protection Program Reduce Hazardous Fuels
The Washoe Tribe is seeking to increase stewardship for forest health in the Tahoe Basin and supporting partners with providing an extra workforce to build capacity. The Tribe seeks to increase cultural burning to protect cultural and medicinal resources, reduce fuel loads on Washoe Tribal parcels in the basin and along streams of importance to the Washoe Tribe to protect and increase Lahontan Cutthroat Trout populations.

Targeted Performance Measures

  • Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment
  • Acres of Habitat Protected
  • Acres of Habitat Restored or Enhanced
  • Acres of SEZ Restored or Enhanced

Threshold Categories

  • Air Quality
  • Fisheries
  • Vegetation Preservation
  • Water Quality

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Location

Targeted Funding

Secured Funding: Good Neighbor Authori... (USFS - LTBMU), $1,200,000

Targeted Funding: Lake Tahoe Restoratio... (USFS - LTBMU), $300,000

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Project Fact Sheet Data as of 01/15/2025