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The League to Save Lake Tahoe has established an electronic newsclip service of articles related to the Tahoe environment. You can check the news bi-weekly at this site, or if you’d like to have our entire clips email sent straight to your inbox, just email us a request.
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RECENT ARTICLES:
Turning Blue Over Blue Boating
Moonshine Ink, May 13 – June 16, 2010
The TRPA says its new program is designed to reduce confusion and create cost savings for boaters. But marina operators worry that the change may be perceived as a cost hike and deter boaters already pinched by the economy from visiting Tahoe.
OPINION: TRPA's new refrain: 'Build Baby Build'
Tahoe Daily Tribune, Weekend edition, May 15-18, 2010
Tahoe is on the verge of changes that will affect it for generations to come. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is deciding the ground rules for how to develop Tahoe for the next 20 years. The most disturbing proposal is to require taller buildings and higher density on more than 800 acres across the lake, in the name of “smart growth.” Yes, get ready for TRPA's new refrain: “Build baby build.”
Study links low clarity to spread of invasive species
Tahoe Daily Tribune, Friday, May 14, 2010
“Keeping Tahoe Blue” may be about more than just aesthetics, according to a study published in the March edition of the scientific journal Ecology. The study — titled “Ultraviolet radiation affects invisibility of lake ecosystems by warm-water fish” — shows a murkier Lake Tahoe is providing a foothold for at least one of the invasive species threatening to forever change the lake's ecology.
North Tahoe 3-lane highway resize project still on 2013 schedule
Sierra Sun, Friday, May 7, 2010
TAHOE CITY, Calif. — Despite a $10 million funding gap and a delay to the initial traffic management plan, the Kings Beach three-lane resizing project remains on track for completion by 2013. Peter Kraatz, Placer County Public Works deputy director, said he would be ecstatic if the county could begin construction on its neighborhood traffic calming plan — to slow traffic in Kings Beach's back streets — by the end of this summer.
Agency will not clam up Emerald Bay
Tahoe Daily Tribune, Midweek edition, May 5-6, 2010
Despite the appearance of aquatic invasive species in one of the more scenic portions of Lake Tahoe, Emerald Bay will remain open to recreational boaters throughout the summer. Some TRPA board members had urged a temporary boating ban in Emerald Bay.
Scientists look to control clam growth
Tahoe Daily Tribune, Midweek edition, May 5-6, 2010
Lake Tahoe scientists are pioneering new techniques to control the population growth of non-native freshwater mollusks.
Tahoe boat enforcement toughens
Reno Gazette-Journal, Saturday, May 1, 2010
Boaters zooming too close to the shores of Lake Tahoe take notice -- officials are poised this summer to start getting serious about enforcing rules to slow them down. With the boating season soon to commence, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency plans to enforce a 600-foot no-wake zone at the alpine lake. The move, part of the agency's newly adopted "blue boating" program, is viewed as a means to reduce boating noise, protect wildlife and enhance public safety.
TRPA My Turn: Cost of doing nothing too high for Tahoe
Sierra Sun, Friday, April 30, 2010
Joanne Marchetta, executive director of the TRPA, writes in her latest opinion piece that, “We're still working on the more complicated question of how to balance the economy, the environment and our communities and until we find that right balance our efforts on behalf of the Lake may be for naught.”
New plan to fight invasive weed at Lake Tahoe
Sierra Sun (from The Associated Press), Friday, April 30, 2010
Scientists at Lake Tahoe are trying a new experiment to eradicate an invading underwater weed that is spreading through the lake and the Truckee River: Eurasian watermilfoil. The new strategy is to lay black fabric layers over the plant to block its access to sunlight and hopefully snuff it out before it clogs water intakes for the region's primary water supply system.
TRPA wants to refine mission, take lead role rejuvenating Tahoe's economy
Sierra Sun, Friday, April 30, 2010
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency has vowed to take a new direction aimed at embracing development and taking a lead role in rejuvenating the economic sustainability of the Lake Tahoe Basin. Executive Director Joanne Marchetta says the agency must distance itself from its former anti-development position and instead forge partnerships in the private sector while maintaining its overarching aim to protect the lake and its surrounding environment.
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