In 2019, the 20,000 seedling lath house at the Tahoe City Field Station was constructed to support forest restoration and research projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin and the inter-montane west. The lath house is the primary location for common garden studies (local and range-wide) of 5-needled white pine species and other forest tree species. This facility is critical to the work in TERC's Forest & Conservation Biology lab that focuses on white pine conservation, restoration, and white pine blister rust resistance research.