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 then people will have to act in that new paradigm for a few years before we know it”. Hear his and Leo Drozdoff’s reflections on the accomplishments of the past year and their words about the states’ commitment to Tahoe into the future.

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 environmental protection.

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 Natural Resources Secretary have made building a positive rapport between the states of Nevada and California a priority. Their efforts have been to make the states a “helpful, productive force in Tahoe” says Drozdoff in this interview. This is the first in a four-part conversation featured at Tahoe Project.org.

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 California-Nevada Consultation process which Secretary Laird referred to as an “historic” accomplishment, “but not the end, just the beginning”.

On August 2nd, 2012 Attorney Daniel Siegel, representing the California Attorney General’s Office, commented on the Tahoe Regional Plan and the California-Nevada Recommendations presented by California Secretary for Natural Resources, John Laird and Nevada Director of Conservation and Natural Resources, Leo Drozdoff. These comments were provided at the Regional Plan Update Committee meeting of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. The question at the close of this segment is asked by Shelly Aldean, Vice Chair of the Governing Board representing the Carson City Board of Supervisors.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Regional Plan Update Committee, received on August 2nd 2012 the California-Nevada Consultation, Regional Plan Update Recommendations presented by Nevada Director of Conservation and Natural Resources, Leo Drozdoff and California Secretary for Natural Resources, John Laird. Following is a 6-minute segment of their remarks compiled from their 30-minute presentation.

Leona Allen is a lifelong Tahoe resident, a Lake Valley Fire Protection District firefighter and a founder of the Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy. In this interview she shares insight into wildfire preparedness, her family's experience of loss in the Angora fire and the success of the Fire Academy where she is among the program faculty at Lake Tahoe Community College.

Welcome to part 2 in the interview with Dr. Darcie Goodman-Collins in which she talks about the League to Save Lake Tahoe's focus on water quality, about the proposed transfer of authority to local government and more of the issues central to the Regional Plan update.

League to Save Lake Tahoe Executive Director Dr. Darcie Goodman-Collins has been at the helm for five months now. She has seen to the consolidation of League staff into one office and is committed to the organization’s becoming more involved in the community. Learn more about the changes at the League in this Tahoe Project interview with Darcie Goodman-Collins.

"How do we maintain this real place? That is a challenge that keeps me awake at night," says Tony Lashbrook. In this, part 2, of the conversation with the Truckee Town Manager hear Lashbrook's reflections on Truckee's authenticity and unique assets and about his team's search for prosperity when the traditional tools for redevelopment are no longer available.