South Lake Tahoe councilwoman to chair conservancy board
Submitted by paula on Fri, 12/08/2017 - 7:30pm
During their meeting Thursday, the California Tahoe Conservancy Board elected South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman Brooke Laine as their chair. She is the City’s appointee to the Board and will be replacing longtime Chair Larry Sevison.
The Board also elected Lynn Suter as Vice Chair, filling a post vacated by former Conservancy Board Member John Hooper earlier this year.
“Larry Sevison has been an icon at the California Tahoe Conservancy for decades," said Laine. "I am honored to build upon his legacy and the Conservancy‘s history of accomplishments on important environmental projects and programs in the Tahoe basin."
At the same meeting, the Board approved a $68,191 contract with the University of California, Davis to restore sugar pine trees in areas of the north shore that have suffered high tree mortality due to prolonged drought and associated pine beetle activity. UC Davis staff, led by Pat Maloney, Associate Director of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center, will plant over 6,000 beetle-resistant sugar pine seedlings on 120 acres of public lands from Kings Beach to Ward Canyon. UC Davis has also secured $33,000 from the Tahoe Fund to plant seedlings on private lands and conduct public outreach.
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