CATASTROPHIC FIRE DAMAGE

 Recently I took a road trip with my daughter and her family down to visit my son in  Meyers, California.  We took the Susanville/Reno route by way of highways 89 to 44 and 395 to highway 50 in Carson City.    It must have been 6 or 7 years ago since we traveled this route and since then there has been many catastrophic wild fires.   All the way starting at Hat Creek along Highway 89 down the eastside of the Sierra Nevada Mountains along Highway 395 to Reno much of the forests have been burned.   There are areas of green timber that were not burned or completely destroyed.   Much of this was burned by the Dixie Fire in 2021, including half of the Lassen National Park and destroyed the town of Greenville.   

While we traveled around South Lake Tahoe and Meyers during our visit we could see the burned forests along the south rim of the Tahoe Basin that was part of the Caldor Fire in 2021.    Presently this area is being logged to prevent a future fire of the standing dead and down trees, in addition to the hazard trees on the slopes above Highway 50 leading to Sacramento.   Most of these logs are being hauled and decked in Carson City waiting for processing in a future mill to be constructed in Gardnerville, Nevada.  

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