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Letter: Tahoe Fund making basin a better place

Published: November 1, 2014  By: admin, In: Voices,  4 Comments
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To the community,

In 2010, amidst a backdrop of discord in the Tahoe basin, a group of people who love Tahoe came together to start the Tahoe Fund. As leaders in conservation, business and community, our interests were diverse, but all agreed we could do better for Tahoe. There was a lot of pent up energy to do tangible projects that would protect the environment, improve recreation and increase environmental stewardship.

Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, we decided the best way to do that would be to support the already existing environmental improvement program (EIP), a collaborative interagency effort to identify priority projects which was a result of the first Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit. In our first few years, we have raised funds for more than a dozen projects to expand the network of bike trails, fight invasive species, and restore important watersheds. Projects include the Van Sickle Bi-State Park, removal of Asian clams from Emerald Bay, restoration of Blackwood Creek, and a new bike path from Incline Village to Sand Harbor. A full list of our projects can be found online.

I would like to thank the visionary Tahoe Fund supporters who make these projects possible. With your help we can increase our impact and leave a legacy for generations to come.

Cory Ritchie, Tahoe Fund board member

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  1. Toxic Warrior says - Posted: November 1, 2014

    How many conservation agencies do we need to save this lake ? And now another one looking for funding ?
    Is this bogus collaborative environmental agency creation ever going to stop ?

  2. Irish Wahini says - Posted: November 2, 2014

    Ouch! New organizations usually are supporting different projects that are not necessarily priority projects of different agencies. If they all do good things, and funding is voluntary – why do you care?

  3. Coral says - Posted: November 3, 2014

    You and those like you are certainly “increasing your impact” – by promoting overdevelopment at this lake and its surrounding areas. You are not concerned about conservation or the environment, just with the bottom line. I urge everyone to look carefully at this organization and choose to support those that are actually trying to save Lake Tahoe rather than expand its urban boundaries.