Through our Advocacy and Monitoring program, the League acts as the primary watchdog for Lake Tahoe's environment. One of our fundamental goals is to ensure that laws and plans intended to protect the Lake Tahoe Basin are adequate and effectively enforced. To this end, the League closely monitors the work of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), the bi-state regulatory agency which is charged with protecting Lake Tahoe. In addition, we monitor the work of the U.S. Forest Service and other management and regulatory agencies in the Basin.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Development in the Shorezone
In 2008, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) will vote on a new shorezone plan for Lake Tahoe.
The anticipated new draft plan has yet to be publicly unveiled. However, every version that has emerged over the years has contemplated a huge increase in the number of boats on the lake. Thousands of new buoys and hundreds of new boat slips and piers have been consistent features of each plan endorsed by the agency’s staff.
Click here for more info on the shorezone plan and to learn how you can provide input.
Regional Plan
TRPA continues to work towards proposing a new Regional Plan for Lake Tahoe. The League is working with members of the community and other stakeholders to assure that the new plan increases protection for the environment at Lake Tahoe. Our priority is to ensure the land use ordinances in the Regional Plan are consistent with the water quality goals of the newly completed Tahoe TMDL.
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TRPA to Change Thresholds
TRPA is planning to make changes to its nine environmental thresholds. Changes to the thresholds will be one of the most consequential actions of the TRPA in the past 20 years. The League submitted extensive comments (as part of a group of conservation representatives on the Pathway Forum) to the initial Environmental Assessment of proposed changes in November 2006. Click here to read our comments and check back in 2008 as ths process moves forward.
Forest Health
As a result of the terrible Angora Fire, the Governors of California and Nevada created a Tahoe Fire Commission to make recommendations for reducing the fire threat to life, property, and the environment in the Tahoe Basin. That Commission is now meeting and the League is following the proceedings closely. Thus far, the Commission has presented a number of recommendations that raise serious concerns.
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