Thursday, June 22, 2017
Field trip observing burned areas of the Angora Fire. Meeting location: Lake Valley FPD, Station 7 - Administration Headquarters, 2211 Keetak St., South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150.
Friday, June 23, 2017 Presentation Files
Overview of the Angora Fire – Kit Bailey, Fire Management Officer, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, US Forest Service
Definsible Space in the WUI – John Pickett, Forester, Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District
Policy changes and outcomes resulting from the Angora Fire – Mike Vollmer, Environmental Improvement Program Manager, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
Multi-jurisdictional coordination of fuel reduction and fire prevention – Forest Schafer, North Lake Fire Protection District
Scientific contributions of the Angora fire in the Sierra Nevada – Hugh Safford, Regional Ecologist, Pacific Southwest Region, US Forest Service
Avian and small mammal community responses to post-fire forest structure - implications for fire management in mixed conifer forests – Angela White, Wildlife Biologist, Pacific Southwest Research Station, US Forest Service
Forest development after the Angora fire – results of reforestation approaches - Susan Kocher, Natural Resources Advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension
Water quality response to the Angora Fire - Alan Haeyvart, Associate Research Professor, Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada Reno
Plant Community Response to the Angora Fire -The Effects of Fire Severity on Biodiversity - Jonah Weeks, Graduate Student, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis
The Angora fire in the South Lake Tahoe area, California started June 24, 2007 and ended July 2, 2007. The fire burned 3,100 acres, destroyed 242 residences and 67 commercial structures, and damaged 35 other homes. At the peak of the fire, there were as many as 2,180 firefighters involved in battling the blaze. During the 10 years after the wildfire, many policy changes in fuel reduction and fire prevention in the Lake Tahoe Basin were created. Californians must learn from the past and work together to meet the forest and fire challenges of the next century.
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Research recovery site of Susie Kocher, Forestry/Natural Resources Advisor, Central Sierra Cooperative Extension, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.