Lake Tahoe and The Growing Importance for Environmental Preservation Es

Lake Tahoe, an enormous expanse of clear, blue, fresh water surrounded by meadows and intricate lumbers and rimmed by snow-capped peaks, is one of the worlds great scenic and ecologic wonders. Tahoes water is world famous for its amazing clarity. Even today, one quite a little see objects 70 feet below the surface, a clarity matched almost nowhere in the world. The Tahoe Basin had a obtusely evolving and essentiall(a)y balanced surround for thousands of years, with surrounding forests, meadows and marshlands helping to maintain the clarity and purity of the lake. This pristine surroundings likewise provided habitat for great diversity of plants and wildlife. Hundreds of species of native plants thrived in forest, marsh, and meadow. only when now, in scarcely a century, an equilibrium that endured for thousands of years is rapidly organism lost due to environmental degredation and resource values are steadily deteriorating because of human activities. While there is an appe arent lose of wildlife and environment that exists in The Lake Tahoe Basin, there is also an insurgance of environmental conservation that has become increasingly powerful in the attempt at stopping these adverse affects on the environment from incident in the hope that the beauty of Lake Tahoe will continue to exist for generations and generations more.The beginning major change in the environment came with the logging of the 1860s, when much of the basins forest was clear-cut. The logging tapered off with the collapse of the mining boom, but not before most of the Tahoes virgin forest was gone. By the 1920s, cars and better roads made Tahoe accessible to the ordinary visitor, and landholdings began to be subdivided for summer homes, especially along the southern and western portions of the basin.The urbanization of the Tahoe Basin remained a relatively slow process until the 1950s, when the opening of Highway 50 and the completion of Interstate 80 brought the San Francisco Bay a rea within a four-hour drive. Year-round access to the lake advance expansion, as modest clubs designed for seasonal business were transformed into hulk casinos packed with visitors throughout the year. The new access in winter also attracted thousands to the basins ski slopes, and in addition to this increase due to accessability, the 1960 Olympics were held in the Lake Tahoe Basin, at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort. This event crea... ...ve a healthy environment we must conserve the land that has remained untouched. For this reason, the TRPA organization and legion(predicate) other environmental protectionist groups of the Lake Tahoe Basin, realise redevelopment as an alternative to new development, and we strongly believe all development should be contained within the existing urban boundaries. Redevelopment allows for many environmental improvements to be made.BibliographyLeague to Save Lake Tahoe, Lake Tahoes Annual pellucidness Chart, South Lake Tahoe, California.Douglas S trong, Tahoe An Environmental History. (Lincoln, NE University of Nebraska Press, c1984), pp 22-31.Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, closely TRPA Mission Statement. Online. Available http//www.trpa.org/Mission.htm. Accessed June 1, 2005.U.S. Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Lake Tahoe Federal advisory Committee. Online. Available http//www.fs.fed.us/r5/ltbmu/local/ltfac/. Accessed June 1, 2005.U.S. enumerate Bureau. California Population of Counties by Decennial Census 1900 to 1990. Online. Available http//www.census.gov/population/cencounts/ca190090.txt. Accessed June 1, 2005.