Tag Archives: Lake Tahoe

Fire suppression may be one reason why Lake Tahoe’s clarity is decreasing — but doing something about that involves a difficult-to-control balancing of fire’s sometimes equally negative effects on water nutrient levels 0

Citation Madeline Fisher, A New Threat to Water Quality: Forest Fire Suppression, Soil Horizons 53(3): 3-5, doi: 10.2136/sh2012-53-3-lf (May 2012) The more we know, the more complicated it appears to be Scientists Dale Johnson and Wally Miller have been investigating Lake Tahoe’s decreasing water clarity for years.  It appears that increased nutrient inflow is the [...]

United States Geological Survey video shows the impressive ability of “light detection and ranging radar” (LIDAR) to penetrate vegetation and show geological faults — their example comes from Lake Tahoe, California 0

Citation Kevin Bazar, Sandra Bond, and Jim Howle, Using bare-earth LiDAR imagery to reveal the Tahoe – Sierra frontal fault zone Lake Tahoe, California, Unites States Geological Survey (17 May 2012) (with embedded video) The pointing finger The videographers went to the trouble to include a pointing finger icon in the video.  It traces the [...]