Cooperative Agreement 25GN11051600006

The City of South Lake Tahoe will receive $911,120 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region to conduct hazardous fuel reduction activities. Under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program, the City will reduce fuels across approximately 149.82 acres of city-owned properties. This will decrease wildfire severity, improve defensible space, and enhance forest ecosystem health near critical infrastructure like the airport, schools, and...

The California Tahoe Conservancy and USDA Forest Service will implement a coordinated hazardous fuels reduction strategy in community forests on the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin through a $4.3 million cooperative agreement awarded by the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region. Under the six-year award beginning August 2022 through the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program (CFDA 15.235), the awardees will reduce hazardous fuels on 650-850 acres of small, forested...

The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District will reduce hazardous fuels on 210-620 acres and plan additional hazardous fuels removal on non-federal lands in Incline Village and Crystal Bay, Nevada to mitigate wildfire risk and improve forest health through a $1.8 million cooperative agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region. Funded by the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program, which supports community-based conservation partnerships, the district will...

The California Tahoe Conservancy will reduce hazardous fuels on 950 to 1,250 acres of high-priority wildland urban interface areas on the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin through a $5.99 million cooperative agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act. Focusing on three geographic regions, the Conservancy will treat Conservancy-owned parcels over one acre adjacent to communities to reduce catastrophic wildfire threats, protect...

This $1,450,000 Project Grant award by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service supports the State & Private Forestry Hazardous Fuel Reduction Program (CFDA 10.697). The award will fund hazardous fuel reduction treatments on 78.8 acres of private and municipal property within the Village of Cloudcroft, New Mexico. Key activities include reducing overstory tree density, removing hazardous and diseased trees, and mitigating surface and ladder fuels to create defensible space around...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreement Authority (CFDA 10.693) program, provides $522,080.00 to the County of Nevada in California to reduce hazardous fuels and perform approximately 200 acres of mastication adjacent to a high-risk community. These activities aim to decrease fire intensity and spread, thereby increasing protection for the community. This project supports the Forest...

This $893,800 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreement Authority (CFDA 10.693) program will support 199 acres of fuels reduction in the wildland-urban interface south of Mount Shasta, California. The project will involve the removal of vegetation posing fire risk through mastication, piling, and chipping to create a strategic fuel break and increase the safety of a prescribed burn on adjacent National...

This $289,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the State & Private Forestry Hazardous Fuel Reduction Program (CFDA 10.697) will fund the establishment of fuel disposal sites for private landowners in Alaska. This will allow them to safely dispose of dead slash from beetle-killed trees and materials from small landowner fuels reduction projects, thereby reducing hazardous fuels and wildfire risk. The grant was awarded to the Alaska Department of...

The Tahoe Resource Conservation District will receive $10,017,490 through December 2028 under a Cooperative Agreement from the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region's Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program to deliver a coordinated Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Adapted Communities project. The Tahoe RCD will partner with local fire protection districts to provide up to 25,000 defensible space inspections and 15,000 residential chipping services on private properties, corresponding to fuel...

The Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District will receive $532,470 through a Cooperative Agreement awarded on December 27, 2022 by the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program (CFDA 15.235). The funding will support a 90-115 acre fuels reduction project along Highway 50 in the Lake Tahoe Basin from 2023 to 2028. Treatments will include thinning and removal of fuels in two areas prone to heavy traffic and near homes to modify potential...