Success Stories
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…
TAKE CARE BILLBOARD UNVEILED TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE RECREATION - January 10, 2020
The Take Care Tahoe Campaign uses humor to share stewardship messages This month, a new digital billboard campaign has been unveiled on behalf of over 50 partners who have collaborated on the “Take Care Tahoe” effort to encourage more responsible behavior while in Tahoe. Designed with messages that use humor, the campaign was created to capture the attention of visitors…
The Tahoe-Pyramid Trail “Floriston Section” is NOW FULLY OPEN! – Ride from Reno to Tahoe - October 5, 2019
Tahoe-Pyramid Trail volunteers opened the last mile in the Truckee River Canyon to the public on Saturday, October 5, 2019!! The Floriston ceremony marked the completion of the last link from Reno/Sparks to Tahoe, and trail enthusiasts began using the new section immediately. Hikers and intermediate cyclists are taking in views of the Truckee River never before enjoyed. The 16…
South Lake Empowers Explorers to Take Care of Tahoe - November 14, 2019
Travelers are rewarded for their act of kindness in giving back to Take Care Tahoe with exclusive rates and perks from curated Kind Hotels. Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority (LTVA) launches a sustainable travel initiative with Kind Traveler, the first socially conscious Give + Get hotel booking and sustainable travel education platform that empowers travelers to make a positive community and…