Public agencies working to reduce fire risk

Public lands in Meyers to be cleaned up. Photo/Provided

The U.S. Forest Service is giving Lake Valley Fire Protection District a $26,000 grant to reduce wildfire risk in Meyers.

Lake Valley personnel will clear brush and hazard trees on a 6.5 acres owned by California Tahoe Conservancy across from the Tahoe Pines Campground.

The U.S. Forest Service Non-Federal Lands Grants support fuel reduction work on parcels adjacent to Forest Service land that has been or will be treated. The same contractor, CTL Forest Management, will be working on the Conservancy property and adjacent Forest Service land.

The project, which should be finished this month, will remove many of the lodgepole pines felled by a prior flood. CTL Forest Management will thin overgrown trees on the adjacent Forest Service properties as part of the South Shore Fuel Reduction and Healthy Forest Restoration project.