KTVN Channel 2 - Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video - Forest Service Wants Input on New Trees at Angora Burn Area
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The U.S. Forest Service wants your input on a plan to plant new trees in the Angora Fire burn zone.
An environmental assessment is already in the works and should be released as early as next week. In total they want to plant conifers on 745 acres.
The Lake Tahoe Basin has a very short timeframe in which soil moisture and temperature are favorable for planting.
To increase the seedlings' chance of survival, crews will remove competing vegetation for up to three feet surrounding the seedling during planting and as needed during future years. The seedlings will be one-year old and about six inches high when they arrive. The Placerville Nursery supplies the seedlings, which are collected from a seed source appropriate to the elevation and site characteristics of the fire area.
The Forest Service requests comments on the proposal by March 22, 2010. The proposal is available at the Forest Supervisor's office at 35 College Drive, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96151 or by visiting http://fs.usda.gov/ltbmu, then clicking on the link for land and resource management and then projects.
