Controlled burn in Lockwood

Posted by on Apr 8, 2008 in Conservation, Forestry, News | Comments Off The Nevada Division of Forestry and Storey County Fire Department held a controlled burn yesterday in Storey County’s community of Lockwood. Click the image to view the...
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Crews work to restore Waterfall fire area

Posted by on Apr 4, 2008 in Conservation, Forestry, News | Comments Off With the choke of a drill’s carburetor and a whiff of gas, the workers on a south facing slope in Ash Canyon went to work–digging, boring holes and planting. “Yeah, you know it’s a nice day when you do this for a living and there’s no place you’d rather be,” said Nevada Department of Forestry Fire Captain Joe Fording, who this week and next will help...
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Director’s update, April 2008

Posted by on Apr 4, 2008 in News | Comments Off Newsletter for DCNR employees Good afternoon to everyone in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. In my almost four years as the Department’s Director, I have come to appreciate the extent and diversity of our natural resource mission. We have responsibilities for the protection of our land, air and water, the operation of state parks, fire suppression and rehabilitation,...
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Return of the non-natives

Posted by on Apr 3, 2008 in News | Comments Off Cheatgrass adds fuel to the fire  Soon the false promise of green will sweep through the brown hills of Reno and Sparks. Then it will all be gone, replaced by a vast yellow rug of creepy knee-high soldiers. This is the way of Bromus tectorum, a noxious weed more commonly known as cheatgrass. Cheatgrass is a non-native annual grass that was originally and accidentally introduced to the United...
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Forest Service awards $250,000 grant to Nevada Division of Forestry to support biomass supply

Posted by on Apr 3, 2008 in Conservation, Forestry, News, State Parks | Comments Off CARSON CITY, Nev–The U.S. Forest Service recently awarded a $250,000 grant to the Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF) to purchase biomass collection and removal equipment. Up to 6,000 tons of biomass could be removed from fuels treatments on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park, Bureau of Land Management, state, tribal and...
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