I completely expected the closures to remain in place until possibly the first snowfall. I was thinking earlier today, how do you justify closing millions of acres of national forest to recreation in California for most of summer and fall (as happened last year) and will this become an annual practice absent an above-average winter snow pack. Unfortunately for those of us living in the Tahoe area, the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (i.e., Lake Tahoe National Forest by another label) is extending the closure for all the national forest land surrounding the lake. Seriously? And there's a chance of snow at higher elevations for Sunday and Monday. I can see extending the closure for the area affected by the Caldor fire, but come on...
