tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-218281902011-04-21T11:00:37.755-07:00Welcome to Stealing Tahoe, a web log that rises out of a contemporary new novel by John Newman. To learn more about the novel and John, please visit his website at www.stealingtahoe.comJohn Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05812790868507030042noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21828190.post-1138827395982331222006-02-01T12:47:00.000-08:002006-08-02T22:09:00.510-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://stealingtahoe.com/images/cave-rock.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://stealingtahoe.com/images/cave-rock.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" >What is Tahoe to you?</span> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal">Consider the <st1:place>Grand Canyon</st1:place> and Hetch Hetchy, national treasures that were dammed and flooded for the common good.<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p face="arial" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;">(Picture of Cave Rock on the East shore of Lake Tahoe, where the Washo believe that Water Babies (me'tsunge) congregate and which is believed to contain the entrance to a tunnel that allowed them to travel to the adjoining Carson Valley waterways)</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><br />Tens of millions of people are moving to <st1:state><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:state> and <st1:state><st1:place>Nevada</st1:place></st1:state> over the next decades, with no new sources of water in sight, and all current sources stretched razor thin.<br /><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Could </span><st1:place style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Lake Tahoe</st1:place><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"> be drained and diverted?</span><br /></p> <div style="text-align: right; font-family: arial;"></div> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">The great Lahontan Trout are a distant memory.<span style=""> </span>The dying pines are rusting on the hills for all to see, a fire hazard of epic proportions that once ignited some still late September day, would likely cloud the Lake forever.</p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">For most, the <st1:place>Lake</st1:place> is a grand view, a picture-perfect postcard, a scene to admire between dinner courses or a hand of blackjack.</p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">For some, it is a spiritual presence, a living organism, an extension of soul.</p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal">What is Tahoe to you?<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21828190-113882739598233122?l=stealingtahoe.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>John Newmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05812790868507030042noreply@blogger.com1