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Forest Service has 4-point plan for Tahoe Basin
Jun 3, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle
The grand plan for Lake Tahoe calls for restoring habitat, cleaning up creeks and keeping the lake and surrounding areas clean, according to a U.S. Forest Service draft management plan released...
Lake Tahoe Regional Plan Update: Development of recreation areas cited as concern
May 23, 2012, Sierra Sun
LAKE TAHOE — Since its release last month, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's Regional Plan Update has stoked fears of a new era of over-development at Lake Tahoe.And allowing new hotel...
Lake Tahoe Wildfire Awareness Week kicks off Saturday
May 22, 2012, Sierra Sun
LAKE TAHOE — The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is encouraging local residents and part-time homeowners to become “wildfire aware” by taking advantage of public education...
Bird-watchers scope spring increase in avian activity
May 20, 2012, Tahoe Daily Tribune
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — From time to time, Sheryl Ferguson will just freeze and listen. Sometimes she hears the “tsee tsee tsee” of one of Lake Tahoe's warbler species. Other...
Help restore Lake Tahoe
May 18, 2012, League press release
Tahoe Basin residents and visitors are invited to help with the removal of one of Tahoe’s most prolific aquatic invasive weeds, Eurasian watermilfoil, during the first annual Community Aquatic...
Regional Plan Update enters high gear
May 18, 2012, Tahoe Daily Tribune
The plan for how the Lake Tahoe Basin will look in the next 20 years is contained in thousands of pages released by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency last month.And several public meetings next...
Closer to the catch: Tahoe company turns in final applications for commercial crawfish harvest
May 14, 2012, North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
LAKE TAHOE — Almost exactly a year ago, Fred Jackson announced his petition to change a Nevada law banning the commercial harvest of crawfish from Lake Tahoe. Now, the Yerington resident is...
Tahoe Pipe Club: Pointing Out Tahoe's Polluting Pipes
May 11, 2012, Moonshine Ink
First there was the storm drain calendar, highlighting a polluting Tahoe pipe each month. Then came the videos, showing thousands of gallons of murky, road-soiled runoff shooting out of pipes into one...
Forest Service releases decision for Heavenly 2012 Capital Projects
May 10, 2012, Keep Tahoe Blue News
South Lake Tahoe, Calif. –The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has released the draft Decision Memo for 2012 Capital Improvement Projects at Heavenly Ski Resort....
Resident feedback sought on future of Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park
May 9, 2012, Sierra Sun
State officials are looking for resident feedback to help shape the future of some of the most picturesque and oft-used recreation spots along the North and East shores of Lake Tahoe.The Nevada ...
Up a creek without a permit
May 6, 2012, Tahoe Daily Tribune
Just before the Upper Truckee River runs into the Lake Tahoe Golf Course, a line of black gravel bags create a small bubbling rapid. And beneath the gravel bags lies a South Tahoe Public Utility...
Protection sought for rare woodpecker
May 2, 2012, Mercury News
RENO, Nev.—Smokey Bear has done such a good job stamping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that's survived for millions of years by eating beetle larvae in burned trees...
Riffles in the River
Apr 28, 2012, Tahoe Daily Tribune
Floaters bobbing down the Upper Truckee may notice a few new bends and ripples as the river winds past Lake Tahoe Airport.The new curves are the result of an $8 million restoration project that...
Regional plan released
Apr 27, 2012, Tahoe Daily Tribune
The release of thousands of pages of documents that will guide development in the Lake Tahoe Basin during the next two decades was hailed as a long-awaited milestone this week.Public review of the...
TRPA draft EIS Regional Plan update showdown begins
Apr 27, 2012, Lake Tahoe News
STATELINE – Sixty days. That’s how long people have to review and comment on the environmental documents associated with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Regional Plan update as...
TRCD: Inspector trainees prevent mussel-infested boat from entering Lake Tahoe
Apr 27, 2012, Sierra Sun
LAKE TAHOE — In what officials are calling a fortunate coincidence, regional boat inspectors last week intercepted a vessel with more than 40 adult zebra mussels on it from entering Lake...
Edgewood to begin S. Tahoe park; lodge project draft EIS out
Apr 24, 2012, Lake Tahoe News
By the end of July there will be another place to re-create in South Lake Tahoe.
The official groundbreaking of Bonanza Park is April 30 at 5:30pm at 1209 Bonanza St.
This will mark the start of tur...
Forest Service seeks comment on proposed William Kent project
Apr 23, 2012, Keep Tahoe Blue News
South Lake Tahoe, Calif. –The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is asking for public input on the Environmental Assessment (EA) prepared for the William Kent Best...
Tahoe's draft Regional Plan Update to be released this week
Apr 22, 2012, Sierra Sun
LAKE TAHOE — Lake Tahoe's future is bound in thousands of pages of documents set to hit the public in coming days.The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency will release its Draft 2012 Regional Plan,...
Firefighters anticipate busy fire season
Apr 21, 2012, Tahoe Daily Tribune
A lackluster winter could create a long, hot summer for Lake Tahoe area firefighters.With the water content of the Sierra Nevada snowpack sitting near 50 percent of normal, Lake Tahoe Basin forests...
Idaho inspectors stop armada of barges infested with invasive quagga mussels
Apr 18, 2012, Idaho Stateman
An armada of 41 flexible barges infested with quagga mussels during construction work in Lake Mead were stopped by Idaho’s boat inspection program.
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$13M in highway improvements to begin on Tahoe's Nevada side this week
Apr 16, 2012, Reno Gazette Journal
Work begins this week on more than $13 million worth of highway improvements on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada side, including construction of a new roundabout intersection at the juncture of Nevada 28 and...
Leading the League
Apr 15, 2012, Tahoe Mountain News
"It is an organization that is revered in the environmental community, disliked and feared in development circles, and, arguably, has helped contribute to Lake Tahoe's famed clarity," writes Jeff...
Major forest-thinning project at Tahoe approved
Apr 14, 2012, San Jose Mercury News
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.—The U.S. Forest Service has won final approval for a major forest-thinning project designed to reduce the threat of a catastrophic wildfire at Lake Tahoe.The project,...
Aveda hosts trashion show to raise funds to support clean water projects
Apr 13, 2012, Keep Tahoe Blue News
Aveda’s April 2012 Earth Month campaign inspires its network of beauty professionals and consumers in more than 30 countries to raise $4.5 million for the protection of clean water.
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Ownership of Tahoe Biltmore property may be up for grabs
Apr 12, 2012, Sierra Sun
CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. — A key loan financing the multi-million dollar renovation of the Tahoe Biltmore property showed up on regional real estate listings last week, spurring questions about the...
Opinion: A house call could lower water bills, consumption
Apr 12, 2012, Lake Tahoe News
Water is a limited resource that is vital to our everyday existence. By participating in a Water–Wise House Call your household could save thousands of gallons of water per year. Not only are...
Boat inspections to begin at 3 reservoirs
Apr 9, 2012, Reno Gazette Journal
Guarding against the potentially disastrous spread of invading mollusks, Nevada officials hope to begin inspecting and decontaminating boats at three Northern Nevada reservoirs come summer.A ...
Meyers restarts process to be a more livable community
Apr 6, 2012, Lake Tahoe News
MEYERS – Another meeting, another plan, another promise the next document won’t sit on the shelf, but instead will actually be implemented.
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California, Nevada merge efforts for 2022 Olympics bid
Apr 5, 2012, Sierra Sun
OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. — Fifty-two years after the Olympic flame was first ignited in the Tahoe region, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki announced on...
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