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The Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2015, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, passed the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Wednesday. The legislation, created alongside senators Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Harry Reid, D-Nevada and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., provides federal, state, and local partners important tools to reduce wildfire threats, improve water clarity, jumpstart innovative infrastructure projects, and combat invasive species.

The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection has awarded its annual Wendell McCurry Excellence in Water Quality Award to the Great Basin Outdoor School in recognition of its exceptional outdoor environmental education programs.

Early Nevada miners historically used charcoal as a fuel source to smelt less valuable ore to extract silver and gold. Located near mining districts throughout the state, charcoal ovens were utilized to optimize the charcoal conversion process.

The Tahoe Fund is launching a new project submission process for environmental organizations that would like to partner with the Tahoe Fund to restore lake clarity, improve outdoor recreation and inspire stewardship of the Tahoe Basin.

The Nevada Department of Transportation says it is nearly finished with a $1.2 million storm drainage enhancement and water quality project that began this summer along a 4.5 mile stretch of Highway 50 from Spooner junction at South Carson Street to Tahoe Golf Club Drive.

Last weekend HOSA members, also known as Future Health Professionals, volunteered at the RAM medical event held at Carson High School. HOSA students served as interpreters, place holders, registration assistants, dental scribes, and vision care assistants.

The students were able to put the skills that they learn in class to use. They also gained valuable experience by working alongside dentists, doctors, nurses, and optometrists. The RAM event served more than 900 people in the Carson City area.

Tahoe South is destination vacation central for the 2015-16 ski season with more than $200 million in major enhancements in lodging, recreation and dining hot spot renovations that are underway.

From slope-side to beachfront and all points in between, the ongoing revitalization opens the gates to additional places to stay, shop, dine, play, recreate and experience the Tahoe lifestyle. Major news continues with the Lodge at Edgewood Tahoe, which broke ground Oct. 1.

CARSON CITY—The Carson River Coalition (CRC) with the Carson Water Subconservancy District (CWSD) is hosting a public CRC meeting on October 21, 2015 from 9am-1pm at the Carson City Public Library, Digitorium Room, 900 N. Roop Street, Carson City, NV. Daniel P. Beard, Former Commissioner at the Bureau of Reclamation and Author of Deadbeat Dams is the keynote speaker. His talk will give a unique perspective on water issues and policies facing the western states.

Sponsored by: Alpine Watershed Group, Friends of Hope Valley

October 10th & 11th 2015
10:00am - 4:00pm in Hope Valley, CA
AT Intersection of Hwy 88 and Blue Lakes Road

reserve your adventure today at www.AspenFest.org

Saturday, October 10th

Live Music - Free
11:00am - 12:30pm - In Stride
1:00pm - 3:00pm - Sierra Sisters

Presentations - Free
10:00am - American Rivers: Hope Valley Restoration
12:30pm - Comstock Seed: Native Plants and Conservation

Activities:
• Nature Walks - Free
(30 minute duration) at 11:30am, 1:30pm and 3:30pm

The highly anticipated Lodge at Edgewood Tahoe broke ground Thursday in a ceremony highlighting the major impacts it will make on South Shore's economic and community revitalization, as well as important environmental and recreational enhancements in the area.

You are invited to be our guest at the first ever RW Round-Up as we Showcase and Celebrate our work in the Carson River Watershed. We'll be at Dayton State Park on Sunday, Sept. 27 from 1-4 pm.

Volunteers have stepped up to adopt and maintain the decorative gateway signs that were installed along the three Nevada highways that lead motorists into the Lake Tahoe Basin.

18th Annual Tahoe Forest Stewardship Day
Sep 12, 2015, 9 am - 2 pm
Upper Truckee River - Meet at Barbara Ave. and Lodi Ave for shuttle to restoration site.
South Lake Tahoe

Join us for a day of planting, weed pulling, and other restoration activities to preserve and protect Lake Tahoe's watershed. Refreshments, lunch and prizes will be provided.

Bring your reusable water bottle, wear clothes that are comfortable that you can get dirty in, and bring your friends.

RSVP at keeptahoeblue.org/rsvp

Lake Tahoe’s public agencies have teamed with scientists, marinas and lakefront homeowners on a new strategy to protect the highly impacted nearshore ecosystems and to combat invasive species that threaten the lake’s famed clarity and $5 billion economy.

The Governing Board of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency today unanimously approved the Tahoe Valley Area Plan the City of South Lake Tahoe created to guide community revitalization and environmental restoration in a district centered around the “Y” intersection of Highways 89 and 50.

Tinder-dry vegetation, exceptional drought conditions, increasing daytime temperatures and several human-caused fires have prompted multiple agencies to implement fire restrictions beginning Friday on public land throughout western Nevada.

Tinder-dry vegetation, exceptional drought conditions, increasing daytime temperatures and several human-caused fires have prompted multiple agencies to implement fire restrictions beginning Friday on public land throughout western Nevada.

A $1.2 million road project to reduce erosion, preserve water quality and enhance storm drains along Highway 50 in south Carson City and west along Spooner grade will begin this month, the Nevada Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.

This is the last issue of Senator Square for this school year. As always, I am amazed at how fast the year went by. My mother always told me it goes faster and faster the older you get. Mom’s have so much wisdom that you don’t want to admit they have until you become older and wiser also.

The Nature Conservancy, working with federal, state and local agencies, as well as a private landowner, are collaborating on a forest restoration project designed to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires, protect onsite and neighboring structures, protect water supplies for people and enhance wildlife habitat near Carson City.

The University of California, Davis and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency recently released their yearly water clarity readings for Lake Tahoe. The good news: Mid-lake water clarity improved significantly in 2014, with an average reading of 77.8 feet. That’s 7.5 feet greater than the average reading for 2013, and almost 14 feet greater than the 64.1 feet measured in 1997, Lake Tahoe’s lowest recorded clarity.

People think of elephants, tigers and sharks as a bellwether for how the environment is doing, but monster fish, two dozen species of large freshwater fish weighing more than 200 pounds, are an alarming indicator of the health of aquatic ecosystems around the world.

“These big fish are in a steep decline,” Zeb Hogan, conservation biologist and researcher in the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Science, said. “The disappearance of aquatic animals is a freshwater extinction crisis.”

Carson River Coalition’s Floodplain Management Forum

The Tahoe Fund announced Monday the election of Kevin Marshall, Pete Sonntag and Julie Motamedi Teel to its board of directors. The three new members each bring a strong commitment and love of the Lake to their positions.

They are charged with helping the organization expand its impact by growing support of environmental improvement projects that will restore and enhance the Tahoe environment.

Presented by the Sierra Nevada Alliance, South Tahoe Earth Day Committee and Patagonia South Lake Tahoe, the 10th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival South Lake Tahoe combines award-winning environmental and adventure films with the energy of local activism. Featured films will include exciting outdoor adventures, environmental battles and inspirational stories of people making a difference. The Film Festival will take place on Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the MontBleu Showroom.

Carson City's newest downtown brewery and restaurant, Lake Tahoe Brewing Co., is set to open soon. After a huge remodel, the Hop and Mae Adams restaurant site will open under the direction of owner and founder Michael Candelario.

On Wednesday a select number of people were allowed to see what is ultimately coming to Carson City. While a firm date has not been set, an opening is forthcoming within the coming weeks, perhaps even days.

If you love Tahoe and you love to ski or ride, now is the time to take advantage of the “Plates for Powder” program.

By suspension vote, the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed the Nevada Native Nations Lands Act, legislation sponsored by Congressman Mark Amodei of Nevada's second district.

The legislation includes six tribal land measures, as well as a smaller conveyance to the City of Elko. The bill was amended to match the Senate version, which was reported out of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in August.

As the keynote speaker at last month’s National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation in Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell emphasized the central role collaboration must play for America to protect its natural resources, balance economic needs, and address emerging environmental challenges such as climate change.

“We are moving into an era of epic collaboration,” Jewell said, explaining that regional partnerships across jurisdictional boundaries are more important than ever for the federal department that manages 20 percent of our nation’s land.

Washoe County Commissioners approved Wednesday a Federal Lands Access Program Memorandum of Agreement providing $12.5 million in federal funding for the design and construction of improvements along the state Route 28 corridor from Incline Village to the U.S. Highway 50 junction.