Political Science: The ongoing sandbox civil war at Lake Tahoe

Policy and science “link up all the time” says Leo Drozdoff, Nevada secretary of conservation and natural resources. Drozdoff, along with John Laird, California secretary of natural resources, discussed issues on environmental policies of Lake Tahoe at a recent UNR seminar. The men spoke mostly on the logistics of protecting Lake Tahoe between two states, to which Nevada contributes one-third of the budget, with the other two-thirds the responsibility of California. This all came to a head at the Nevada Legislature last year with Senate Bill 271, which would withdraw Nevada out of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency if it doesn’t maintain Lake Tahoe conservancy efforts with its share of the lake.
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