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Saving Lake Tahoe : an environmental history of a national treasure / Michael J. Makley.
- Title
- Saving Lake Tahoe : an environmental history of a national treasure / Michael J. Makley.
- Author
- Makley, Michael J.
- Publication
- Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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- Description
- xi, 233 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm
- Summary
- For thousands of years, Washoe Indians summered at the shores of Lake Tahoe, selectively utilizing its bounty. When Americans first arrived in the mid-nineteenth century, they were awestruck by the lake's beauty, but also intent on harvesting its abundant resources. In a mere half century, the basin's forests and fisheries were destroyed, the lake's pristine clarity dramatically reduced. Left alone, nature healed itself, and by the 1960s mature forests once again surrounded the lake. Its famed water clarity rebounded to a visibility of more than one hundred feet deep. However, Tahoe's scenic wonders brought new threats: millions of annual visitors and incessant development, including ski resorts and casinos. In Saving Lake Tahoe, Makley tells a story of ecological disasters and near misses, political successes and failures, and passionate fights between those who seek to preserve the environment and advocates of individual property rights. His meticulously researched account takes us to the present, with the creation of the bistate Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and groundbreaking efforts to use science, including that of climate change, in establishing policy. Tahoe's future is not ensured, but understanding the past will inform those who seek to protect it for generations to come. Book jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Clear-cutting the grandeur -- Trades -- Using the lake -- The boom -- Opposing goals -- Impossible conditions -- Changing direction -- Approving development -- Influences -- War between the states -- Sagebrush and a submarine -- New ministrations, old frustrations -- Elusive agreements -- Litigating the issues -- Damages and courts -- The summit -- Conflicting hopes -- Green versus green.
- ISBN
- 9780874179347 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0874179343 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780874179354 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013041105
- OCLC
- 862222243
- SCSB-12843773
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library