Indigenous people have relied on Lake Tahoe for sustenance since the end of the last Ice Age. Unsustainable environmental degradation arrived with European settlers. During the silver bonanza in nearby Virginia City during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, loggers nearly stripped the basin of trees…. Along with natural resources, Tahoe’s beauty has been a commodity that continues to attract visitors and their associated impacts.
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