Walk Softly, Respect Wildlife, and Share Gratitude
Thank you for caring about your National Treasure, Lake Tahoe and its Watershed. This unique community didn't just happen. Thousands of years, native people walked softly in nature and protected this land.
For the last decade, countless citizens have worked hard to preserve an environment built around ecological zones and create provisions for wildlife corridors. Lake Tahoe is unique because of this ongoing commitment to protect the vegetation, wildlife, and clarity of the Lake. Its future depends on YOU in helping define the way we treat this unique environment.
If you have experienced the Burning Man event, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, or been on an African Photo Safari, you will understand the meaning of Destination Stewardship. At the entry point (before arriving) you agree to follow certain protocols designed to sustain the habitat you are about to experience, which also serves to enrich your connection to the values of the place. It's amazing how this does not take away from your sense-of-place experience, but serves to enhance it.
Destination Stewardship is a set protocol that destination hosts have agreed to follow in-service to the sustainable prosperity of: nature, wildlife, residents, commerce and the traveler.
As we are all "Earth Travelers", it's a good to reminder that "wherever you stand - in water or on land – something or someone lives there". Not knowing where or how to knock and enter another habitat may compromise or even kill the very thing you came to admire.
