Tahoe Fund

Stewardship: the Tahoe Fund executes initiatives and provides grants to critical environment improvement projects in the lake Tahoe basin that encourage greater stewardship of the basin. Tahoe Fund awarded a number of grants to organizations that are expanding access and inclusion in Tahoe, including yea camps with gateway mountain center, accessibility improvements for the watermans foundation, a new scultpure at Tahoe blue events center made of trash found during the 72-mile scuba clean up and support to achieve Tahoe for their summer programs. The Tahoe Fund continued to Fund the regional stewardship collaboration called take care Tahoe with new messages and billboards on major highways into Tahoe and was a major funding partner in the execution of the new destination stewardship plan.

Recreation: the Tahoe Fund provides grants to critical environment improvement projects in lake Tahoe that will create sustainable outdoor recreation. The Tahoe Fund provided funding for a number of sustainable recreation projects around the basin, including the extension of the east shore trail, restoration of 19 miles of trail on the Tahoe rim trail in desolation wilderness, a reroute on the tyrolian downhill, and regular trail maintenance in partnership with tamba and Tahoe rim trail.

Forest health: the Tahoe Fund provides grants to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration in the Tahoe basin to prevent catastrophic wildfire. Some of the highlights included a pilot of the new burnbot remote masticator, funding for the undergrounding of power lines at glenbrook, filled a funding gap on a fuels project in north lake Tahoe, supported a cultural fire training with the washoe tribe, and continued to support scholarships at the ltcc forestry program.