Best Tahoe Project Podcasts (2025)

Debbie Larson is a writer — and what better way to learn about yourself and get some inspiration than becoming a busser at a restaurant after the age of 50?By Reno Gazette-Journal

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19: When Home Means Nevada 9:00

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Diaz Dixon made a lot of moves around the country in his life — but nothing compared to coming home to Nevada.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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18: He realized how far he'd fallen when he didn't have an emergency contact list 13:28

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Grant Denton was homeless, addicting to drugs and living in Las Vegas. He had to realize how far he'd fallen before he could find a way back up.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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17: Her father's Lake Tahoe home burned to the ground. So they built a garden 7:37

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Leona Allen's family lost a lot in the 2007 Angora Fire — homes, irreplaceable possessions. What grew from the ashes, though, helped their South Lake Tahoe community heal.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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16: He bearly made it out alive 8:52

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In this episode, Tyler Friend tells about the utterly terrifying experiences of being chased by a bear at the age of 10.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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15: A fish tale 7:54

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In this episode of the Reno Storytellers Project, Fred Krueger takes us through a mystical journey into the woods where he thought he would find a quiet night with some bears, but ended up finding something even more unexpected.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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14: Lost and Found 10:19

7+ y ago10:19

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In this episode of the Reno Storytellers Project, Israel Borokini shows us how a scenic hike filled with deep conversation can turn into an emergency.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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13: She'll be coming down the mountain 11:41

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Anjeanette Damon, the city government reporter for the Reno Gazette Journal, tells the story of learning to ski for the first time. Except that it was only recently and it was the scarier than facing the police chief for a difficult interview.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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12: Accepting my invention 13:46

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In this story, Juan Lopez tells us about all the times he desperately wanted to reinvent himself because of the pain his speech impediment caused. But, when he realized it wasn’t reinvention he was after, he discovered his greatest gift.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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11: A Name Does Not Define Me 13:30

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Steven Ing tells us a story of a violent father who could’ve stolen Steven’s legacy, but in a twist of teenage stubbornness, Steven stole it back for himself.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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10: The brick that changed everything 14:16

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In this story, Mikalee Byerman tells us how a brick changed her life and how she rebuilt her life, one brick at a time.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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09: Finding the right person at the right time 8:29

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Chris Johnson discovered a person who cared about her and helped her out of a tough health situation when she was a child. But that person wasn’t family like you’d expect.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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08: Flip that Life 8:17

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Erin Fuss had the perfect life at 22 years old, until she realized that's not what she wanted. After a some tragic lettuce wraps, Erin changed everything.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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07: 'The Reno that Raised Me' 9:33

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In this episode, Linda Sealock tells us the story of growing up in rural Canada, then moving across the country with a man she later found out was a bigamist. Her story leads her to Reno where she discovers a network of people who helped raise her out of a bad situation and into a confident, strong woman.…

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06: Always Say 'I Love You' 16:00

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Education reporter Siobhan McAndrew is a mom and a reporter, and those two don't always make life easy. There are a few stories that Siobhan always looks back on, though, stories that make her grateful and realize that there are bigger obstacles in life.By Reno Gazette-Journal

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Maintain Roads and Infrastructure for a Clear Lake Tahoe, Kraatz (3) 13:25

12+ y ago13:25

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“Living in the Tahoe Basin is a privilege,” says Peter Kraatz, Deputy Director of Public Works at Placer County. “If you go back a hundred years there was a big push to turn it into a national park. It is not a national park. It is a sensitive landscape though. It got developed the way that it did. We are trying to correct the way it got developed …

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Maintain Roads and Infrastructure for a Clear Lake Tahoe, Kraatz (2) 10:10

12+ y ago10:10

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While operation and maintenance of roads is the critical element for the next decade in the strategy to meet the Clarity Challenge and restore Lake Tahoe clarity it is not evident how funds to do the work will be secured. Peter Kraatz, Deputy Director of Public Works at Placer County says in this interview, “I get a lot of complaints about the cond…

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Maintain Roads and Infrastructure for a Clear Lake Tahoe, Kraatz (1) 11:16

12+ y ago11:16

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Public Works professionals throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin are striving to meet the Clarity Challenge—to reduce the number of ultra-fine sediment particles that get to Lake Tahoe every year by one-third by 2026. This is no small task. Among them is Peter Kraatz, Deputy Director of Public Works at Placer County. In this 2012 interview Kraatz talks a…

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Cost-Effective Steps to a Clear Lake Tahoe, Larsen (5) 8:32

12+ y ago8:32

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We now have the tools to understand how to prioritize. We know that doing everything everywhere is not the best strategy and now we have the tools to strategically make prioritization decisions for Lake Tahoe water quality. It doesn’t make sense to put our implementation dollars toward areas that don’t connect hydrologically to the lake. “The prior…

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Cost-Effective Steps to a Clear Lake Tahoe, Larsen (4) 6:13

12+ y ago6:13

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“We all depend on the benefits of transportation infrastructure so we all have a role to play in mitigating the impact of that infrastructure on water quality,” says Bob Larsen, Staff Scientist at the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board. He says, “Everybody who is living in and enjoying this Tahoe basin has the responsibility to deal with…

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Cost-Effective Steps to a Clear Lake Tahoe, Larsen (3) 8:08

12+ y ago8:08

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On a dollar for dollar basis annual operations and maintenance activities are more cost-effective at reducing pollutant loading and are cheaper than large-scale capital improvement projects, otherwise known as infrastructure projects. In this interview Bob Larsen, Staff Scientist at the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board points out that,…

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Cost-Effective Steps to a Clear Lake Tahoe, Larsen (2) 8:33

12+ y ago8:33

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Roadways, in particular the state highway system and some of the other high traffic roadways, are a disproportionate source of the ultra-fine particles that are causing the decline in Lake Tahoe clarity. In this interview Bob Larsen, Staff Scientist at the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, talks about the central question for today’s r…

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Cost-Effective Steps to a Clear Lake Tahoe, Larsen (1) 8:12

12+ y ago8:12

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Bob Larsen is Staff Scientist at the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board. In this 2012 interview he says, “I think the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) provided us with the opportunity to be more involved in the process [of solving Lake Tahoe clarity decline], to engage with the scientific community and our implementing partners to figure …

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Clear Path to a Clear Lake Tahoe, Kouyoumdjian 2012 Interview (2) 7:03

12+ y ago7:03

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“I am inspired by the collaborative spirit at Lake Tahoe,” says Patty Kouyoumdjian, Executive Officer of the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board. “I am very optimistic that if there are challenges I think that we are going to meet those,” she says. And there are challenges to executing on the plan to restore Lake Tahoe clarity. In this in…

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Clear Path to a Clear Lake Tahoe, Kouyoumdjian 2012 Interview (1) 7:33

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There is a clear path we can take to restore Lake Tahoe’s clarity according to Patty Kouyoumdjian, Executive Officer of the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board. She says, “I think we are very clear on where the sources of pollution are and I think we are relatively set on what actions need to happen to improve lake clarity”. In this 2012 …

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2012 Interview with Claire Fortier, Mayor, City of South Lake Tahoe (2) 8:17

12+ y ago8:17

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How well are investments in the environment performing? Monitoring is conducted in the effort to answer this question. In this interview, Claire Fortier, Mayor of the City of South Lake Tahoe, argues that monitoring is useful when deployed in a targeted context, where the objectives are defined. In this conversation Fortier shares a little bit abou…

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2012 Interview with Claire Fortier, Mayor of the City of South Lake Tahoe (1) 8:59

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Claire Fortier is the Mayor of the City of South Lake Tahoe. In this interview she talks about monitoring. Monitoring—conducted in an effort to determine how effective projects have been in achieving the environmental goals of the Basin—has been a key topic of discussion at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board meetings in this month b…

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2012 Interview with Joanne Marchetta, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (4) 3:38

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The Tahoe Region is updating its vision of its communities and the way they will work in the twenty-first century. Discussions are now underway in the local communities around the Tahoe Basin about what they will look like and what their interface with the environment will be. Residents, part-time homeowners and visitors to the Tahoe area are invit…

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2012 Interview with Joanne Marchetta, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (3) 10:44

13y ago10:44

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“Let the system focus on the places where you get the biggest environmental bang for the buck,” this is the advice that the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency took from the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). "The flexibility that we have built into the system is based on this new paradigm that says: focus on the locations where you can get the greatest p…

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2012 Interview with Joanne Marchetta, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (2) 8:35

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In this interview segment Joanne Marchetta, TRPA Executive Director, responds to the question, "What is the role of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) in relation to incentive and means in the private sector?" In response Marchetta highlights how the TRPA is shifting into a more-regional role than it previously played. She says, “…[local gov…

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Joanne Marchetta Interview 2012 (1) 10:15

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Joanne Marchetta is the Executive Director of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. The agency is bringing forward the Tahoe Regional Plan Update to its Board of Governors in December 2012. This Plan update has been the focus of much debate for nearly a decade. Will the Board vote its approval? Will it proceed without litigation as the governors of N…

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Norma Santiago, El Dorado County Supervisor, Part 2 5:37

13y ago5:37

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The Meyers Community at Lake Tahoe is updating the Community Plan document which describes the desired future of the area. Toward this end a community workshop, open to the public, is being hosted at 5:30 PM on Wednesday, November 7th at 2211 Keetak Street, behind the Lake Valley Fire Station. An update to the general plan for Tahoe Paradise Park w…

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Norma Santiago, El Dorado County Supervisor, Part 1 9:49

13y ago9:49

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Norma Santiago is the District 5 El Dorado County Supervisor, representing South Lake Tahoe and Pollock Pines in El Dorado County. In this interview Santiago talks about the Tahoe Regional Plan Update and the constituency she represents, highlighting the need and opportunity to build trust and solutions.…

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Allen Biaggi Interview (3) 7:34

13y ago7:34

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Allen Biaggi is a member of the board of the Tahoe Fund. In this interview Biaggi talks about the Fund whose goal is to build broad support and funding for public projects.

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Allen Biaggi Interview (2) 8:06

13y ago8:06

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In this second segment of the 2012 interview with Allen Biaggi he talks about water quality, the advances made in Nevada with regard to water quality and about the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) which he calls, "a huge step forward because previously we had more of a shotgun approach … we now know through a rigorous scientific process, where the p…

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Allen Biaggi Interview 10:18

13y ago10:18

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Allen Biaggi is a third-generation Nevadan from Douglas County. At the close of his 3-decade career in public service Biaggi served as director of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources which oversees the divisions of environmental protection, forestry, state parks, state lands, water resources, conservation districts, the natu…

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Casey Beyer Interview (2) 10:24

13y ago10:24

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Casey Beyer is one of California Governor Jerry Brown’s two appointees to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board. This is part 2 in the interview. Here he speaks about the role of Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Board members in the final preparation of the Regional Plan document and in setting a course for the Tahoe Basin in the twenty-…

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Interview with Casey Beyer, Governor Brown Appointee to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency 7:43

13y ago7:43

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Casey Beyer is one of California Governor Jerry Brown’s two appointees to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board. Politics and policy were a part of his family life growing up in Tahoe. In this interview he shares a bit about his life as a native of Nevada and how he approaches representing the interests of the Governor and people of Ca…

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Nevada Governor, Brian Sandoval at Tahoe Summit 2012 11:47

13y ago11:47

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The August 13, 2012 remarks of Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval are featured in this podcast. He underscores the “unprecedented collaboration” between the states of Nevada and California on the Regional Plan update, which he calls “a masterful compromise”. Highlighting Nevada’s recent contributions to environmental improvement at Tahoe he talks about…

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Interview with Leona Allen (2) 9:02

13y ago9:02

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This is part 2 in the interview with Leona Allen, firefighter and lifelong Tahoe resident. In this interview segment she talks about what she and her family did in the wake of the Angora fire which burned down her father’s house. Her father wanted to give something back to his neighbors. Today a model garden for defensible space using native plants…

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Edgewood Tahoe Lodge, Interview with Patrick Rhamey (3) 5:57

13y ago5:57

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Welcome to part 3 in the interview with Patrick Rhamey, Vice President of Real Estate with Edgewood Companies. In this interview host Michelle Sweeney talks with him about the Edgewood Tahoe Lodge project. The existing Stateline Stormwater system treats runoff from properties that are on Edgewood Companies' land in the Tahoe Basin. Can this system …

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Edgewood Tahoe Lodge, Interview with Patrick Rhamey (2) 9:26

13y ago9:26

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Welcome to part 2 in the interview with Patrick Rhamey, Vice President of Real Estate with Edgewood Companies. In this interview host Michelle Sweeney talks with him about the Edgewood Tahoe Lodge project--one of the first to apply new Total Maximum Daily Load methodologies to planning.

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Edgewood Tahoe Lodge, Interview with Patrick Rhamey 11:59

13y ago11:59

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The proposed Edgewood Tahoe Lodge project includes a suite of upgrades to the Edgewood Company land at the lake. Today this land and associated ponds and wetlands remove about 400,000 pounds of sediment from flow to Lake Tahoe. Upgrades linked to the project, including an operations and maintenance plan, are projected to remove an additional 100,00…

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Senator Dianne Feinstein at 2012 Tahoe Summit 14:21

13y ago14:21

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“If we are going to save this lake it is because people care and we work together and we make the necessary compromises and we take the action to do so," said Senator Dianne Feinstein on the occasion of the 16th annual Lake Tahoe Summit. Thank you for listening at TahoeProject.org.

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Senator Dianne Feinstein and Governor Jerry Brown 7:39

13y ago7:39

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This is the press interview with Senator Dianne Feinstein and Governor Jerry Brown following the 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit

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Interview with Secretary Laird and Director Drozdoff (4) 15:09

13y ago15:09

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Welcome to part 4 in the interview with Leo Drozdoff, Nevada Department of Conservation Director and John Laird, California Natural Resources Secretary. Are we entering a new chapter in the relationship between California and Nevada with the new Regional Plan and the bi-state effort that has gone into it? John Laird says “If this is paradigm shift …

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Interview with Secretary Laird and Director Drozdoff (3) 15:40

13y ago15:40

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Welcome to part 3 in the interview with Leo Drozdoff, Nevada Department of Conservation Director and John Laird, California Natural Resources Secretary. Here they talk about efforts to improve water quality at Tahoe, about the Total Maximum Daily Load effort to reduce pollutants to the lake and about California and Nevada’s differing approaches to …

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Interview with Secretary Laird and Director Drozdoff (1) 13:12

13y ago13:12

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In August 2011 Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and California Governor Jerry Brown said to Leo Drozdoff and John Laird, “Well, you are it,” referring to the leadership role they were being asked to take on the states involvement in the Tahoe Regional Plan update. Leo Drozdoff, Nevada Department of Conservation Director and John Laird, California Nat…

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Interview with Secretary Laird and Director Drozdoff (2) 7:28

13y ago7:28

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Welcome to part 2 of 4 in the interview with Leo Drozdoff, Nevada Department of Conservation Director and John Laird, California Natural Resources Secretary. This interview was recorded following a presentation the two made at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Regional Plan Update Committee on August 2nd. They presented the recommendations of a C…