
Tahoe's Climate Future
How Is Climate Change Affecting Lake Tahoe, and How Are We Adapting?
This story map highlights how climate change is expected to impact the Lake Tahoe Basin (Basin) in the coming years. It also highlights how Basin partners are already adapting to climate change. Partners include federal, state, and local public agencies, the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, businesses, and nonprofit organizations.
Future Climate Conditions
Your Climate Future
What Can You Do?
- Participate in community science and engagement programs. Join Eyes on the Lake , the League to Save Lake Tahoe's volunteer community science program to help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive plants at Lake Tahoe. Volunteer at one of the League’s Tahoe Forest Stewardship Day events. Download and use the Citizen Science Tahoe App .
- Prepare your home and community for wildfire with help from the Tahoe Network of Fire Adapted Communities .
- Government and nonprofit organizations can join the Sierra Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Partnership , a cross-sector partnership working to promote climate adaptation and mitigation strategies across the Sierra Nevada region.
Where Can You Learn More?
This story map shares information about Tahoe's future climate conditions from the Integrated Vulnerability Assessment of Climate Change in the Lake Tahoe Basin . The future conditions are based on a standard scenario where global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century. How much and how quickly the climate actually changes will depend on what we do to cut greenhouse gas emissions in coming years.
More resources:
- State of Nevada Climate Initiative
- Resilient California
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - Climate Resilience
- TahoeLand podcast
- Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program - Launched in 1997, the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program (EIP) is a partnership of federal, state, and local agencies, private interests, and the Washoe Tribe, created to protect and improve the extraordinary natural and recreational resources of the Lake Tahoe Basin.