Agenda set for annual environmental summit
Gov. Jerry Brown will give the keynote address at the 18th annual Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit on Aug. 19.
This year’s summit, hosted by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will take place at the Tallac Historic Site at Valhalla starting at 10am.
The theme of the summit is Drought, Wildfire and Invasive Species: Confronting the Effects of Climate Change on Lake Tahoe. The event is open to the public and will feature remarks from:
· Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval
· Nevada Sen. Harry Reid
· Nevada Sen. Dean Heller
· Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei.
Those speakers will be followed by a panel of local stakeholders:
· North Lake Tahoe Fire District Chief Mike Brown will speak on the fuels work being done in the basin to address wildfire risk.
· Tahoe Environmental Research Center Director Geoff Schladow will speak on work being done to prevent the spread of invasive species in the lake.
· Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Executive Director Joanne Marchetta will speak on TRPA’s Regional Plan update and restoration work.
Gosh, I think we’ll have lunch at the Beacon that day… I thought there were rules about pollution on the shores of the Lake. Doesn’t rhetoric pollution count? I hope that there will be plenty of BMP’s to keep the BS out of the water.
Dianne Feinstein is the leader in what will be a gathering of clowns.
Election year headlines and photo ops.