This is amazing! I visited Lake Tahoe in the 1970s on a family holiday and it's wonderful to see all this positive work being done to restore the ecology. Sandhill Cranes!
Thanks so much for writing this piece! Currently finishing up a wetland restoration project on the Nevada side of Tahoe and your piece hit on so much we have been feeling about the challenges/pessimism we face in restoration and how little the greater successes are being celebrated. Granted part of the challenge is that a successful project leads to the work eventually being forgotten by most as the impacts from the past are eliminated and a healthy thriving wetland returns with minimal trace of its past degradation. Your writing is certainly a welcome piece of optimism as we finish up our current project and begin planning for our next rounds of restoration in the coming years. Feel free to reach out to us at the Nevada Tahoe Conservation District if you ever want to chat about restoration work in Tahoe.
Thanks so much, Patrick. Great to hear this. I'd love to be in touch further about what you're doing. I hear there's been some beaver drama in a meadow on the Nevada side.
I worked at Modoc National Wildlife Refuge in Alturas, CA back in the mid-1990s researching Sandhill Crane nesting -- this is an inspiring story to discover!
This is amazing! I visited Lake Tahoe in the 1970s on a family holiday and it's wonderful to see all this positive work being done to restore the ecology. Sandhill Cranes!
I'm in Australia and this success story made my heart sing.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for writing this piece! Currently finishing up a wetland restoration project on the Nevada side of Tahoe and your piece hit on so much we have been feeling about the challenges/pessimism we face in restoration and how little the greater successes are being celebrated. Granted part of the challenge is that a successful project leads to the work eventually being forgotten by most as the impacts from the past are eliminated and a healthy thriving wetland returns with minimal trace of its past degradation. Your writing is certainly a welcome piece of optimism as we finish up our current project and begin planning for our next rounds of restoration in the coming years. Feel free to reach out to us at the Nevada Tahoe Conservation District if you ever want to chat about restoration work in Tahoe.
Thanks so much, Patrick. Great to hear this. I'd love to be in touch further about what you're doing. I hear there's been some beaver drama in a meadow on the Nevada side.
Precious!
I worked at Modoc National Wildlife Refuge in Alturas, CA back in the mid-1990s researching Sandhill Crane nesting -- this is an inspiring story to discover!