Congress recently passed a bill to reauthorize the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act, which will allocate $300 million for various projects through 2034.
The funding will support the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Project, one of the most over-reaching conservation programs in the county.
"One of the main projects is coming forward is a 59,000-acre fuel reduction project on the west shore of Lake Tahoe called 'Lake Tahoe West', and that is one of the projects that we could see potentially benefiting from this source of funding," said Jeff Cowen, PublicThanks to the 2016 'Lake Tahoe Restoration Act', thousands of acres of forest fuels have already been cleared from the area.
Since the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Project was first launched in 1997, partners have completed 830 projects which include wetland restoration, improvements along bike trails, forest fuel reduction to mitigate the impact of aggressive wildfires, along with the monitoring and removal of invasive aquatic species in the lake.
"Our program has actually produced about 1,700 jobs a year in the Tidal Basin, which is not insignificant when we're looking at a population of about 55,000 people. But, we're also looking at every $1 million that goes into the restoration. We're seeing 1.6 million and economic output, so more than double."
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