Five Great Basin National Park employees - about 20 percent of the park's staff - have been rehired after being laid off in February. But staffing uncertainty remains.

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.