The State Water Resources Control Board has issued emergency water conservation regulations in Georgetown, Cool and surrounding areas. The district will join a statewide coalition of urban water suppliers to provide further input.
(June 20, 2022) → Read the full Mountain Democrat reportThe Clean Up the Lake scuba dive team has finished its work of recovering submerged litter around all 72 miles of Lake Tahoe’s shoreline. In total, the dive team collected 24,797 pieces of litter.
(May 10, 2022) → Read the full Tahoe Daily Tribune reportThe Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, which will help pumas in the Santa Monica Mountains cross 10 lanes of Highway 101, will be the largest in the world.
Slow Lake Food Tahoe will open the Food Bank Garden on June 1 for daily compost drop-off open 24 hours per day. Compost donations will also be accepted at the Truckee Certified Farmers Market on Tuesdays between 8 a.m. and …
California may soon shut down its last nuclear power plant, but Gov. Gavin Newsom who once championed the closure has had a change of heart. Federal funds may now keep the plant running.
STORY BY UC DAVIS TERC The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) has partnered with Palisades Tahoe and Protect Our Winters on an educational campaign to increase public awareness and understanding of the negative effects of climate change to …
On a recent cross-country ski at Prosser Reservoir, a popular area for recreating, a friend and I found ourselves at the top of the hill overlooking the frozen reservoir. The ground was littered with tiny pieces of plastic wrappers blowing …
2021 saw the biggest single day of fundraising in the history of Give Back Tahoe, launched by the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation in 2014.
Keep Truckee Green has added a food compost bin at Mountain Hardware on Donner Pass Road for food scraps only. The food compost bin is open year-round in the rear parking lot off Forest Lane. Bins are also available year-round …
LA Times staff writer Louis Sahagun reports from the front lines of the battle to preserve California’s most endangered species.
Comstock’s reporter Jennifer Junghans learns about some innovative solutions to the problem of ice on winter roads.
What do resource conservation districts protect? Pretty much everything that’s worth saving.