Sierra Club Tahoe Area Group's letter to: Stacy Wydra Environmental Coordination Services Community Development Resource Agency County of Placer   The Tahoe Area Group of the Sierra Club agrees that affordable housing is needed in the...

Press Release from The North Tahoe chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby The North Tahoe chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby(CCL), together with the Town of Truckee and the Sierra Business Council, will host a free community forum on...

If you would like to get involved with the Sierra Club tracking and reporting back on transportation issues in the Lake Tahoe basin, please let us know. Transportation, the overuse of the roads by our 15 million visitors annually, is degrading our...

Zoning laws workshop, forests under attack, TAP code change, e-bikes on trails, microplastics, Executive Committee election, and more!

Once again there is a push to change the current zoning laws in the Tahoe Area Plan to allow more density, higher and larger footprint buildings, and to decrease required parking. All of this is to make it easier for developers. Tahoe City is a...

Washoe County and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) have approved a Tahoe Area Plan code change without community input which will allow for an increase in density and height for new development such as the luxury condos at 947 Tahoe...

E-bikes in the basin are on the increase. Although this alternate mode of transportation is highly encouraged on roads to reduce our use of fossil fuels, their use on non-motorized trails is not and, in fact, is prohibited in the Basin....

Do your forest trails that you frequently use seem like they are under attack recently? Several cases have been brought to our attention this summer and fall that make it seem that the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU) of the U.S. Forest...

The Microplastics and Lake Tahoe webinar was presented by Rachel Kozloski, UNR PhD student and Hannah Lukasik, UNR MS student, both with the Desert Research Institute. Watch the webinar recording here. Plastics are man made through the...

Herbicide update, boatworks project, outings, past events, and more!