California Forests
» Fall 2006
Fall 2006
Volume 10 Number 3
How else to explain it? Everyone wants to keep the lake clear, yet dense forests choked with massive fuel loads surround the lake - even though most people realize that if fire strikes, the rains and snow that follow will wash thousands of cubic yards of debris into the lake. Foresters certainly saw this coming. Forestry 101
says you can't just suppress fire with no other forest management and expect the forest to stay safe and healthy.
Water quality reigns supreme at Tahoe, and if students can understand that healthy forests promote water quality and burning forests degrade it, the experts must, too.