Science news articles about 'tahoe basin'

... potential habitat for invasive species at Lake Tahoe such as the Asian Clam," Kent said. These expeditions also provide ... Lake area was the largest unmapped region of the Tahoe Basin. The lake is three miles long and one mile wide, and the surface is about 150 feet higher ...

... death for bears. Working in both the Lake Tahoe Basin on the California-Nevada border and California’s Yosemite National Park (where bears breaking ...

... quality and clarity," Chandra said. Sewage is exported out of the Tahoe basin to water treatment plants, and controls on growth and construction practices have been implemented to protect the lake ...

... . Dating of the moraines from the last two glaciations in the Tahoe basin, around 21 thousand and 70 ... the tectonic boundary between the Sierra Nevada to the west, and the Basin and Range Province to the east, its level of activity ...

... -bound lake at the south end of the Lake Tahoe Basin -- reports that stands of pre-Medieval ... , Duration and severity of Medieval drought in the Lake Tahoe Basin, published in the Quaternary Science Reviews ...

... , the urban interfaces of cities and towns of the Lake Tahoe Basin were included. Nevada's Black Bear ... contributed to the bear's local extinction in the Great Basin, landscape changes due to clear-cutting ...