Smoke on South Shore from control burn outside basin
Smoke visible in the Meyers area that is drifting into the Lake Tahoe Basin is a prescribed burn in the Eldorado National Forest near Iron Mountain Road.
Lake Valley fire officials say there is no reason to be alarmed.
Don’t be alarmed!!! This smoke is a major health issue! Stay inside… don’t breathe this air! Come stay in Tahoe but don’t go out to play. I am going home!
Ahhh…yet another misstep in providing a quality of life and welcoming visitors. While reducing fuel loads in the forests is necessary, do we have to smoke out our visitors while irritating everyones lungs and eyes in the process? Really? How about using the wood for feedstock for biomass energy production? We can land spacecraft on Mars and see the video while sitting in our living rooms but we can’t do any better than this here on earth? Pathetic!
Sure that can be done Tom, when can they pick up a check to cover the cost? You are going to pay for it right?
John,
I don’t beleive that this cannot be done without incurring excess cost. While biomass energy production does cost more than prescribed burns, the energy produced would offset some of that cost. What is NOT being calculated are the long term costs prescribed burns have as far as loss in tourism revenue and long-term health costs….not to mention quality of life which is difficult to quantify in terms of money. I suggest that these FAR outweigh any cost savings from open burning.