Tahoe afloat

The sixteenth annual Lake Tahoe Summit helped to establish some bipartisan goals for the future of Lake Tahoe and the surrounding ecology, even as conflict exists between Nevada and California legislatures. Held at Edgewood Tahoe, much of the summit focused on the need for public-private funding to plan for Tahoe’s future after federal funding decreases.

In attendance were Sen. Dean Heller, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki.

The officials each issued statements at the end of the summit. Brown’s read, in part, “This year’s summit reminds us that the health of the Lake is dependent on what we do on the land. After years of debate, California and Nevada are finally getting their act together. The prospects for Lake Tahoe are bright.”

But the debate over the vote to remove Nevada from Tahoe Regional Planning Agency suggests that conflict still looms. For more about the fight over the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, see “Water fight” in News, page six.