Rep. McClintock said on Tuesday that the Lake Tahoe Basin is facing a forest management issue that won't go away, 'even if we all ride our bikes to work and substitute tofu for hamburgers.' Here's what action he and other leaders say is needed to combat climate change.
Rosen is backed by a group of California and Nevada legislators to reauthorize the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act, a landmark law set to expire in two years that holds some of Lake Tahoe's strongest protections, including funding for wildfire fuel reduction in forests, watershed restoration, invasive species management and overall environmental improvement programs.
Padilla recently secured $269,000 in a federal appropriations bill for Lake Tahoe Community College to support a scholarship program for the next generation of forestry students in the basin. "Our public and private forests are in dramatically different condition, even though they sit side-by-side, in the same terrain, in the same climate," McClintock said. "That should warn us that this ultimately is a forest management issue, and this problem is not going to go away. Even if we all ride our bikes to work and substitute tofu for hamburgers."
As visitor and resident populations have continued to increase over the decades -- an estimated 15 million people stop by the lake a year -- water quality began to suffer due to pollution from cars, construction and general human activity. The lake was clearest in 1970, with a visible depth of 97.4 feet.
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