Nothing to report yet in the Tahoe National Forest. News will be posted as it comes in.

http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/tahoe/fire/

I have an e-mail in to Supervisor Quinn asking for any insight on coming restrictions. When I get a response I'll post any info.

Got this today:

"Although the fire season is progressing on the Tahoe NF in a fashion that we used
to call "normal", the typical indices that we use to restrict fires to "safe" areas,
have not been reached yet. The public, however, is used to us implementing
fire restrictions annually. In some years, the number of fire restrictions increases
have had significant impacts on the public mostly related to "internal combustion
engine use on NFS trails and roads"... (limiting OHV use).

In that last ten years, we have implemented fire restrictions any where from the end of May
to early July.
* In 5 of the 10 years, we increased the restrictions by the end of July.
* In one of those years, we increased the restrictions a third time.
* Only once in the last ten years...2003?...we did not have any fire restrictions.

Given the late snow/rains, the less than stellar heat and cool nights to-date, there is a
strong possibility we may not need to implement fire restrictions this year. The type of circumstances
which we would cause us to seriously consider implementing fire restrictions would be situations
such as an aggressive drying trends (for example, several days of strong E-NE winds), or have a
significant lightning/multiple large wildfires that depletes our initial attack capability.

So, the answer is the we may not go into fire restrictions this year, unless weather patterns change."

Hope for continued cool weather and no E-NE winds but still be careful with the fires!

Good news! Bringing the chainsaw!

Hope for continued cool weather and no E-NE winds but still be careful with the fires!
Thanks for all the good relationship maintenance work that is behind this communication, Bret -- Friends of Fordyce rawks! :grinpimp:

Randii

Are campfires still OK in the Tahoe?

Thanks in advance

Looks like they're still ok according to the link above but it might be a good idea to call a forest office and check.The website may be a day or two behind. In any case be really careful. Even if technically legal I'm sure the forest is getting dry!