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Agenda set for annual environmental summit

Published: August 5, 2014  By: admin, In: Grab Bag,  3 Comments
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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.

 

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  1. dumbfounded says - Posted: August 6, 2014

    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.

  2. local says - Posted: August 6, 2014

    Dianne Feinstein is the leader in what will be a gathering of clowns.

  3. Know Bears says - Posted: August 6, 2014

    Election year headlines and photo ops.