I'm a cabin owner in the small Casa Loma Tract in the Tahoe Nat'l Forest (near Alta/Dutch Flat CA ). A couple of years ago years ago the FS came thru and marked dozens of trees for what we thought was going to be a general thinning of the forest for fuel reduction/fire safety.  A member of our Assoc spoke with a FS rep and it was insinuated that it was going to be part of a commercial timber harvest and subsidized by FS, ie paid for by them. Then last year the FS contacted cabin owners and identified (by numbered tree tags) which trees had to be removed AT CABIN OWNERS EXPENSE using a licensed and insured tree company. FS claimed that my tree was diseased (cankers) and could fall and damage MY cabin. Other cabin owners did have dead trees around their lots but many had living trees but FS said they were diseased. My tree cost $1000 to have taken down. My tree company and arborist said after it was cut down that it was perfectly healthy and would have stood for decades. Several other of the cabin owners are ignoring the FS directive. I don't know whether that is prudent. 

In the meantime, FS has said that the timber harvest sale program in my portion of TNF isn't likely to happen anytime soon as the nearest lumber mills are at capacity.

Have any other cabin tracts had any issues such as the one I've described?

Thanks, Rick Fend