Host: Sam Shad

Guests:
from the Desert Research Institute: Alan Gertler, Interim Director for the Division of Atmospheric Sciences
Dr. Chris Maples, Executive Vice President for Research from the University of Nevada, Reno: Wally Miller, Associate Director of the Academy for the Environment - 10th anniversary of the Clinton-Gore Summit at Lake Tahoe featuring environmental issues since that Summit -
Pundits:
Steve Robinson, Government Relations Consultant
Chris Wicker, Chair, Washoe County Democratic Party
Fred Lokken, Professor of Political Science at TMCC

"There are three main sources that led to the decline of water clarity. Nitrogen that gets into the lake, phosphorous that gets into the lake and also sediment or particles. Anyone of those three has been linked to the decline in water clarity and so when you have a fire like this, you increase the amount of nitrogen and phosphorous that can get into the lake because it mobilizes that, plus you also get particles that are given off in the fire some of which can deposit. "

- Dr Alan Gertler, Desert Research Institute, on the effect of the Angora fire at Lake Tahoe and its effect on the lake’s stunning clarity.