Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit

Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit

The Lake Tahoe Basin is a geologic feature of the northern Sierra Nevada. Aside from its principal feature, Lake Tahoe, much of the land bordering the lake is administered by the United States government as the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, a patchwork of public and private lands. The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU) straddles the state borders of California and Nevada, encompassing approximately 191,000 acres (773 kmĀ²) of National Forest system lands, ranging in altitude above sea level from 6,225 feet at lake level to 10,881 feet at Freel Peak.

The USDA Forest Service established the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit in 1973. The name of the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit reflects a unique sort of National Forest, as unique as the resources of the Tahoe Basin.

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