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An old-growth tree is measured by four people at Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe.

‘Amazed it hasn’t burned’: One of Tahoe’s oldest forest stands at high risk of wildfire

The Tahoe Basin's trees were stripped during the development of Nevada's silver mines, and a stand of old-growth trees at Emerald Point are among the largest remaining ponderosa pines in the Tahoe Basin. But the trees are at 'high risk' if a fire were to burn through, according to a new study.

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