Success Stories
Activity Book Available for Download - April 22, 2020
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…
Need some soul food? Watch a live-stream from Lake Tahoe! - April 9, 2020
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. …
The League offers virtual education to Keep Tahoe Blue - April 1, 2020
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…
Important Message from Take Care - April 1, 2020
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…
Education Activities for All: Download Today - March 23, 2020
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…
Lake Tahoe School Adopts East Shore Trail - February 26, 2020
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…
Tahoe’s New Best Friend, the Take Care Bear - February 16, 2020
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...…
Annual Count Finds 24 Bald Eagles Around Lake Tahoe - January 10, 2020
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…
Cigarette Canister Program Keeps Butts out of Lake Tahoe - January 10, 2020
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,…
League to Save Lake Tahoe Awarded 2019 Best in Basin Award - December 19, 2019
Now in its 29th year, TRPA’s annual Best in Basin awards program showcases projects around the Lake that demonstrate exceptional planning, implementation and compatibility with Tahoe’s natural environment and communities. The League to Save Lake Tahoe (The League) and the Tahoe Keys Property Owners Association (TKPOA) were awarded for their collaborative work on a “bubble curtain” to control and curtail…