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Implementing Fire Defensible Space and Best Management Practices in the City of South Lake Tahoe

Implementing Fire Defensible Space and Best Management Practices in the City of South Lake Tahoe Landscaping can provide water-quality protection and be fire safe. This vegetation does not meet fire defensible space requirements. Dense Juniper Ladder Fuels

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Implementing Fire Defensible Space and Best Management Practices in the City of South Lake Tahoe

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  1. Implementing Fire Defensible Space and Best Management Practices in the City of South Lake Tahoe

  2. Landscaping can provide water-quality protection and be fire safe.

  3. This vegetation does not meet fire defensible space requirements. Dense Juniper Ladder Fuels

  4. This woody, dry vegetation is too close to the house and windows. Remove and replace with non-combustible materials.

  5. A vegetated dripline that meets FDS and BMP requirements. O-5 foot Non-Combustible Zone

  6. Flammable junipers are too close to the house and windows. Replace with gravel or low-growing, herbaceous, irrigated plants.

  7. This vegetation meets FDS requirements.

  8. These low, herbaceous, irrigated plants are ok in the dripline. Prune plants regularly to keep them small and add gravel mulch around the plants to protect the soil. O-5 foot Non-Combustible Zone

  9. Dry, woody plants such as this wood rose should be removed and replaced with gravel and/or small irrigated plants.

  10. This vegetation is ok, but the deck needs to be enclosed. Open deck needs non-combustible enclosure Low-growing, well-irrigated vegetation provides erosion control

  11. The groundcover is good, but the small trees and juniper shrubs should be removed.

  12. South Lake Tahoe Fire Department 530-542-6160 www.sltfd.org www.livingwithfire.info/tahoe TRPA Erosion Control Team 775-589-5202 www.tahoebmp.org For More Information on Best Management Practices and Fire Defensible Space in South Lake Tahoe Contact or Visit:

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