Lake Tahoe Basin Case Study

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Sustainability, an equality of sorts, is a two way streak dependent on the rate of revitalization and the rate of consumption for a given area. As people come to dominate over the ecological systems, in which we rely, proper management over these systems becomes increasingly important. In the Lake Tahoe Basin we see an area of progressive and cutting edge efforts to balance the ecosystem, throughout the last century; especially with forests and sensitive water ways. This case study focuses on conservation as a means for increasing or maintaining the ecological system and that rate of revitalization we depend on for our resources. These systems throughout history have been pushed and prodded causing them to be weakened, one of the more elegant …show more content…
This is a paradox of sustainable development, with regards to ecotourism, as something gets better in quality people will demand it at a higher quantity (Gould, Lewis p273). In the late 1900’s we begin to see a complete switch, from a resource dependent region, to an ecotourism industry. With policy following the industry change, it became more economically feasible to allocate large funds for the benefit of the ecotourism industry. This caused the Lake Tahoe Basin to undergo huge policy reform and for many subsequent groups to be formed out of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to this …show more content…
This widespread water way makes it a complicated project that requires the collaboration of many regulatory agencies and interest groups including: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Nevada Division of Environmental Protect, League to Save Lake Tahoe, Sierra Club, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, The Nature Conservancy, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Lower Truckee River Restoration Committee, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, University of Nevada Reno, The Bretzlaff foundation, The Arthur B. Schultz Foundation, Krump Construction, Union Pacific Foundation, and several other cities and county groups (Smith)(Elliott-Fisk). This grocery list of entities all have a vested interest in the revitalization of the Truckee River because it is so closely tied to ecological, economical, and social health of the

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