American Pika are cute, feisty, softball-sized relatives of rabbits that depend on high elevation boulder fields to live their lives. In many mountains in the Great Basin, Pika are going extinct, likely due to warming temperatures from climate change. No one has ever thoroughly surveyed the northern Sierra’s (including the Tahoe Basin) for Pika, and our results paint a stark picture of one of Tahoe’s most climate-dependent species disappearing rapidly from our own local mountains.

Chris Smith is an ecology lecturer at UNR@Tahoe, spending the last ten years obsessed with Pika in both Mongolia (where he teaches summer courses) and in the Tahoe region.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.

Tickets purchased in advance are $10 through EventBrite and free for students with a student ID. Tickets at the door are $15. Refreshments and a no-host bar will be available from 5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the Tahoe Center For Environmental Sciences located on the UNR Lake Tahoe Campus in Incline Village, NV

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