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Douglas search and rescue team is now taking
applications
The Douglas County Sheriff's
Office Search and Rescue Team currently is
accepting applications.
The Search and Rescue Team consists of 28 members
who volunteer their time and efforts toward
providing wilderness and snow rescues and
searches, water searches and swift-water rescues,
assisting during natural disasters and more.
Members are prepared to respond at a moment's
notice 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Interested applicants must be in good physical
condition and demonstrate a cooperative, team- and
goal-oriented disposition. Applicants will be
screened via a thorough background check conducted
by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. Successful
applicants then will attend a four-week academy
beginning Monday, March 24.
Training will occur on Mondays and Thursdays for
two hours in the evening, plus weekends for six to
eight hours on either Saturday or Sunday,
depending on the training scenario.
Applications should be submitted to the sheriff's
office by the end of February.
Time to get ready for
kindergarten
Kindergarten registration has
begun for all schools in El Dorado County.
If a child will be 5 years old on or before Dec.
2, parents may register the child for
kindergarten. The child's birth certificate,
immunization record and proof of residence in the
local school district is required.
For more information, parents can contact their
local school secretary.
New date for 56-Acre project
meeting set
A presentation on the proposed
South Lake Tahoe 56-Acre project, including a
detailed cost estimate, has been rescheduled.
Representatives of the California Tahoe
Conservancy will hear the presentation by CTC
project manager Peter Eichar at 10 a.m. March 19
at Lake Tahoe Community College.
The project needs additional funding to continue,
and the CTC donated $698,000 for the first phase
of the project.
The 56-Acre plan is being developed to enhance the
area now housing the city library, recreation
center, ice rink, public works department and
other public venues in the Rufus Allen Boulevard
area.
For more information, call (530) 577-1777.
Comments sought on underburn
project
The U.S. Forest Service is
seeking comment on a proposal to use prescribed
underburning to reduce fuels buildup and restore
forest health on 3,200 acres on wildland-urban
interface lands throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin.
Underburning is the application of fire on the
forest floor below an overstory of trees,
mimicking the historically common occurrence of
low-intensity fire.
The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit would use
prescribed underburning as a follow-up treatment
on areas previously thinned to reduce fuels,
allowing for prescribed burns to proceed more
safely.
Under the proposal, the Forest Service would begin
understory burns this spring and continue for five
to eight years, burning approximately 400 to 640
acres per year, depending on the number of burn
days and the resources available.
Forest Supervisor Terri Marceron plans to move
forward with the project as a categorical
exclusion under the National Environmental Policy
Act, meaning no environmental impact statement or
environmental assessment would be required.
To view the proposal and a map of treatment areas,
visit
www.fs.fed.us/r5/ltbmu/projects.
Comments are due by Feb. 20. They may be submitted
via mail or in person to Terri Marceron, Lake
Tahoe Basin Management Unit Supervisor's Office,
35 College Drive, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150; via
fax to (530) 543-2693; or via e-mail to
comments-pacificsouthwest-ltbmu@fs.fed.us
using the subject line "Lake Tahoe Basin
Underburning Project."
Oral comments may be directed to project leader
John Washington at (530) 543-2652.
Advisory committee seeking
members
Nominations for people who
wish to serve on the 2008-10 Lake Tahoe Basin
Federal Advisory Committee (LTFAC) are being
accepted by the U.S. Forest Service through Feb.
29.
The committee advises the secretary of agriculture
and Lake Tahoe's Federal Interagency Partnership
on coordinating federal programs and funds to
achieve the goals of the Lake Tahoe Environmental
Improvement Program.
LTFAC members represent a range of interests in
the Lake Tahoe Basin and meet at least four times
a year.
The meetings are held during regular business
hours and alternate locations between the North
Shore and South Shore of Lake Tahoe. Appointments
to LTFAC will be made by the secretary of
agriculture.
For more information on the nomination process,
contact Arla Hains at (530) 543-2773 or send an
e-mail request to
ashains@fs.fed.us.
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