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2024 Lake Tahoe Summit
Hosted by U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
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The 28th annual Lake Tahoe Summit will be held Wednesday, August 14 at Round Hill Pines Beach Resort in Zephyr Cove, Nev. The key topic and theme of this year’s event is “Connecting Tahoe: Investing in Transit, Trails, and Technology for the Future.” The Summit program starts at 10 a.m. If you plan to attend, please register online at takecaretahoe.org. Registration will close on August 9. The event will be livestreamed as well.
About the Summit
The first Lake Tahoe Summit took place in 1997 when the late U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) and others invited President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore to hold a presidential summit here and to call for federal funding to match local public and private funding to begin to repair the watershed. The event sparked creation of the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program, or EIP. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and dozens of partners embarked on an unprecedented mission to conserve and restore the Lake Tahoe Basin’s treasured natural resources. That partnership has continued to grow. Today, the EIP is one of America’s most ambitious and successful landscape-scale restoration programs, with more than 80 local, state, federal, tribal, non-profit, and private sector partners completing more than 800 projects that improve Lake Tahoe’s forests, streams, wildlife habitat, water quality, transportation, and public recreation opportunities.
The annual Summit provides a time to reflect on the progress that has been made, look to future challenges and opportunities, and recommit to the partnerships that continue to carry Lake Tahoe forward.