native mussels
Upper Truckee River near airport closed to the public this summer: Rafting to be affected
Submitted by paula on Wed, 04/27/2016 - 9:02pm
The U.S. Forest Service and California Tahoe Conservancy will be finishing their fourth and final year of creating a new channel for the Upper Truckee River near the South Lake Tahoe airport. To accomplish their final tasks, the meadow and river will be closed to the public for much of the summer in order to divert the water into the new channel, relocate fish and mussels, and finish up vegetation projects.
Forum on aquatic invasive species at Lake Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:03pm
Event Date:
May 21, 2015 - 5:00pm
What are homeowners in the Tahoe Keys doing to fight aquatic invasive species (AIS)? How successful was the pilot research project to reduce the Asian clam population in Emerald Bay, and what does it mean for future control projects? What does the latest research say about whether quagga mussels could survive in Lake Tahoe?
Lake Tahoe native mussels being relocated in order to protect species
Submitted by paula on Wed, 09/03/2014 - 11:55pm
Quagga mussels have been getting all the press lately but today it was the river mussel's turn for notoriety.
Native to the western U.S., the river mussel is now a protected species due to their population being threatened by dams, habitat modification due to the disappearance of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout from the Upper Truckee and other river habitat changing occurrences.
