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Lake Tahoe on travel company’s 2023 ‘No List’ Tahoe Daily Tribune Tahoe officials have pushed back on Lake Tahoe being placed on a longtime tourist/travel company’s list of places not to visit in 2023. Fodor’s Travel, a company that publishes guidebooks and a yearly list of places to visit, or not, recently recommended tourists bypass Lake Tahoe next year due to a “people problem” — crowded beaches and trails and traffic that slows to a crawl that is also threatening the lake’s famous clarity. “For this year’s No List, we’re highlighting destinations to reconsider visiting in 2023 in three main categories: natural attractions that could
use a break in order to heal and rejuvenate; cultural hotspots that are plagued with overcrowding and resource depletion; and locations around the world immediately and dramatically impacted by water crises,” states Fodor’s Travel website. “This year’s No List does not serve as a boycott, ban or cancellation of any sort; but a call to travelers to consider wisely the choices we make. We can have a positive impact on this world we love so dearly.” Fodor’s website attributes the “people problem” to causing heavy traffic on roads and trails that leads to a fine sediment pollution running off the urban landscape, crushing Tahoe’s roads
into fine dust and debris and pumping tailpipe emissions into the air. When it rains or snow melts, stormwater transports these fine pollution particles into the lake, clouding its cobalt blue waters, according to Fodor’s. “It is difficult to take our city’s talk about leadership on the problem of long-term climate change seriously when we simultaneously encourage visitor traffic that results in jams that can stretch into Sacramento,” Scott Robbins, a spokesman for the Tahoe Neighborhood Group and new member of the South Lake Tahoe City Council, told Fodor’s Travel. South Lake Tahoe Mayor Devin
Tahoe Daily Tribune photo by Bill Rozak
Fodor’s Travel listed Lake Tahoe as a destination not to visit in 2023 due to a “people problem” that affects lake clarity. Pictured is Sand Harbor State Park. Middlebrook pushed back on the “No List” designation during the council’s Nov. 15 meeting.
“I do take issue with the Fodor’s list. I think they left out a lot of the things we are doing,” he said. “They didn’t
talk about us working to expand Clean Tahoe, they didn’t talk about n
See Tahoe, page A6
Shelter grant brings drug, alcohol worries Eric Jaramishian Staff writer
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El Dorado County leaders directed Health and Human Services staff to apply for the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Grant Program that requires the proposed homeless shelter/navigation center to be low barrier. According to the grant’s website, eligible uses for the funds require any new interim shelter to be low barrier and in compliance with Senate Bill 1380, which states that
alcohol or drug use is not a reason for eviction without other violations. The bill also states tenants of the shelter are to be “informed by a harm-reduction philosophy that recognizes drug and alcohol use and addiction as a part of tenants’ lives, where tenants are engaged in nonjudgmental communication regarding drug and alcohol use and where tenants are offered education regarding how to avoid risky behaviors and engage in safer practices, as well as connected to evidence-based treatment if the tenant so chooses.” Those requirements also include removing barriers including requirements of sobriety or absence of criminal history through the Housing First principle to end homelessness. The $2.3 million grant, which comes out of a fourth round of California Interagency Council on Homelessness funds, is due Nov. 29 and will be filed jointly n
See Grant, page A6
Photo by Paul Cockrell
Now owned by the American River Conservancy, Lewis Ranch will continue to be used for cattle grazing while also providing public recreation. The property lies between the communities of Coloma, Georgetown and Auburn.
American River Conservancy
protects Greenwood Creek area American River Conservancy American River Conservancy recently announced the completed purchase of 972 acres protecting 3 miles of creek frontage and important oak woodland and forest habitat near the South Fork American River in El Dorado County. The property, Lewis Ranch, is a working cattle ranch and contains remnants of an historical homestead. Now owned and managed by American River Conservancy, the property is permanently protected from subdivision and development. “Lewis Ranch is part of an important wildlife corridor between Greenwood and the South Fork American River trail system,” said ARC Director Elena n
The now-protected Lewis Ranch contains approximately 3 miles of creek frontage on Greenwood Creek, a major perennial tributary to the South See Lewis Ranch, page A7 Fork American River.