Thank You Pour House!

By Nicole Carlsen, Operations CoordinatorThe Pour House will be hosting a wine tasting this Thursday, June 23rd, from 5-7 pm that will benefit the Truckee River Watershed Council.Stop by on your way to Truckee Thursdays, Shelley Fadness will… Read more

Thank you, Northstar-at-Tahoe!

By Lisa Wallace, Executive Director On June 7, 2011, the Truckee River Watershed Council received a $10,000 Vail Resorts Echo grant (http://www.northstarattahoe.com/info/pressreleases/pressreleases.11_echo_program_launch.release.asp).  Northstar-at-Tahoe launched Vail Resorts Echo, the Company’s corporate sustainability program, by announcing  a partner grant to the Watershed… Read more

Truckee River and Climate Change

Hi, Lisa Wallace, Executive Director, here.Last week at our annual fundraiser, the River Breakfast, I talked about the effects Climate Change has on the Truckee River watershed. One of the first reports on the regional impacts* calls out: “Truckee… Read more

River Breakfast – Thank you!

Thank you to the 200 guests who joined us at the River Breakfast, our annual fundraiser held this year at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe.The event was underwritten by the Tahoe Mountain Resorts Environmental Fund and the Ritz-Carlton Highlands, Lake… Read more

Truckee Thursdays Community Partner

Come join us this summer at Truckee Thursdays! The weekly event is from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. beginning June 16th and going through August 25th. The Truckee River Watershed Council will have a booth each week featuring our River… Read more

Snapshot Day A Success!

Thank you to the 46 volunteers who came out to monitor the streams in the Truckee River watershed.  You visited 21 sites and monitored 17 streams.Team Sagehen CreekWe are processing the data now and the results of Snapshot… Read more

Independence Lake Public Meetings

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) recently purchased the property around Independence Lake and is seeking public input on recreation and access issues for this important watershed. Compared to other lakes in the region, Independence Lake has not experienced the introduction of… Read more

Our Website in Beta-Test!

Welcome to our new website.Poke around. Test the links. Look for the info you want. Do you like what you see?  What is missing? What’s not working?We’d love to hear from you.… Read more

Take this Survey: Independence Lake

The Nature Conservancy would to hear from us about recreation use, restoration priorities and the protection of the Lahontan cutthroat trout.Independence Lake’s beauty and rustic nature are matched only by the biodiversity it supports.  Independence Lake is home to… Read more