With awareness of potential concerns related to travel, this prize may be redeemed at any time in the future. Explore Tahoe South, where you’ll find Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine Lake in North America surrounded by the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains, while immersing in three nights of alpine. Plan your day’s journey into the vibrant Tahoe wilderness found on the…
THANK YOU TAHOE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCES The Tahoe Nature Activity Book is designed to enhance grades K-2 curricula and align with Tahoe Institute for Natural Science (TINS) programming. The book is illustrated and designed for children to learn more about the natural wonders of the Lake Tahoe area. In the book, you will find a variety of fun natural science…
California State Parks at Lake Tahoe offer weekly livestreams to people sheltering at home during COVID-19 outbreak. Due to California’s current shelter-in-place order, the public cannot visit their beloved state parks and beaches right now. However staff at Sugar Pine Point State Park, on Tahoe’s west shore, have quickly adapted to bring parks to folks at home through online live-streams. …
During these uncertain and physically distanced times the League to Save Lake Tahoe continues to provide environmental education through online platforms. By adapting lessons and volunteer activities to a virtual form, the League has been able to educate and engage both students and their families about ways to Keep Tahoe Blue from home. This past year the League has provided…
Getting outside is important for mental and physical health, but right now it comes with special safety issues. Here are some tips to stay healthy and safe: Six feet and a mask, please. Even outside. Especially inside. Tahoe will be here when this passes. For safety, recreation areas may close unexpectedly. Six feet and a mask, please. Even at…
Are you wondering how to keep your kids academically engaged while practicing social distancing and learning from home? UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, in conjunction with Take Care partners, have compiled the following list of scientific activities for students in K-12 (parents are encouraged to participate too). These resources include lessons that can be done from a computer or…
The middle schoolers at the Lake Tahoe School in Incline Village have officially adopted the Tahoe East Shore Trail in partnership with Incline Village General Improvement District and Nevada State Parks. At least once a month, this group will walk the entire path to clean up litter and dog poop left behind by trail users or washed ashore from windy…
Take Care Partners connecting visitors to Tahoe's environment like never before Take Care Tahoe is designed to remind people in a fun and friendly way about the behaviors we’d like to encourage in our region and to provide a better connection to our environment through fun educational opportunities. Turns out, creating that connection with people is harder than you think...…
This year we tallied a total of 24 Bald Eagles. Thanks to your careful and descriptive data collection, we were able to differentiate 17 individual adults and 7 immatures. Bald Eagles were sighted in areas throughout the whole lake, and many were found flying around, in comparison to the 2019 survey where the eagles were perched for the majority of the survey. Every year is different. Weather conditions, how much snow is…
Stop at a Tahoe beach, popular trail or parking lot after any nice day in the Basin, and you’re bound to find cigarette butts littered on the ground. They’re unavoidable. In fact, at volunteer clean-up events organized by the League to Save Lake Tahoe (the League), cigarette butts were the top collected trash item in 2018. In that year alone,…