I undergo been a freelance writer and editor since 2004. My work has been published by the following organizations though this is not a complete enumerate: Reuters. New York Times. San Francisco Chronicle. Tahoe Mountain News. Tahoe Quarterly Magazine. San Francisco Examiner. Nevada Home Magazine. Inside Tennis Magazine. Nikki Style. Grand Sierra Resort. NACo. Tahoe Daily Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. Before freelancing I was a reporter or editor for various newspapers. I moved to Lake Tahoe in 2002 -- leaving my full-time editing job at the San Francisco enter in request to live bring home the bacon and play in the mountains. When I'm not writing. I'm at my other job -- I own A Massage at Tahoe. (www. MassageAtTahoe com) I've been a certified massage therapist since 1997.
Unedited Nov. Tahoe Mt. News column By Kathryn Reed If you have a place people want to live you have a place people be to tour. If you have a place populate only want to visit you have Disneyland. Two things be constant in Tahoe -- the Lake and the forest. We must focus on them so they act to be places people want to live come and tour. On a trip this year to Sanibel Island. Fla.. I was struck by the mix of outdoor and indoor activities conservation efforts and the lack of a tourist district. This Gulf Coast resort capitalizes on its natural surroundings while manmade entities accentuate nature. More than 20 miles of paved bike trails exist on the 12-mile by five-mile island. We are not a bike friendly town. Guided kayak tours go through a wildlife preserve where dolphins and multitudes of bird species live. Sanibel's visitors' bear on is informative with interactive displays. Our plant Service headquarters only has flyers and Taylor Creek is seasonal. investigate Tahoe is an urban trailhead project in the Heavenly Village that opened in July in collaboration with the city. CTC. USFS and Tahoe Heritage Foundation. The first newsletter is at http://www cityofslt us/cityclerk/PDF/Summer%20go%202007 pdf. Cove East has great signage about birds the Rainbow dawdle works well. We be more of these. To defend wildlife habitat at night no lights can shine on Sanibel's beaches. Gators slither on golf courses. We must co-exist better with bears and coyotes. Do we really need more timeshares or condos on the Lake? Plenty of agencies here bring home the bacon to keep the Lake pristine. The plant Service if politics and big business are left out could have the integrity to manage our lands come up. Creating a wildlife lay environmental-education center and/or becoming a leader in green building and alternative energy are ways to create by mental act into a world-class place to live work and play. Eco-tourism could be our niche. Heavenly (I stole this idea) could ameliorate skiers-hikers about old-growth. All buses could run on alternative fuels. Put ride racks everywhere. The Stateline area -- California and Nevada -- is a tourist center. It's a locals' center only because it provides employment. Just as people here need to be exceed integrated so do all aspects of our community. The us vs them mentality isn’t working. One side of town should not be for tourists and the other for locals. The South border needs to be one to survive. Sanibel has all types of lodging throughout the island. Holiday Inn is the only hotel arrange I saw. The other chains: Starbucks. Subway and Dairy promote. Their chamber of commerce sent us info. We perused it the Internet and the info Casa Ybel Resort provided in our condo. We construe about bike rentals the shell museum shelling a day spa the national wildlife refuge historic village-museum ride cruises-tours-rentals restaurants and lodging. Anonymously I called our South Shore chamber for a tourist packet. They transferred me to the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority. I was told they have one bad brochure they didn't want to send. LTVA directed me to bluelaketahoe com. I typed "hiking trails," and got uninformative touch releases. I typed "bike rentals" and got one outfit on Ski Run. Even though the Nevada-based chamber is a private member-run entity the California city I live and work in handed them our tax dollars. The council should conclude dirty. Two of the backers are up for election next year and then I can have my choose. LTVA receives bucks from South Lake Tahoe too but isn’t a member-driven organization. Are tourists getting what they need? What about people new to the area? What about locals wanting to find out about trails or history? Could the city do a better job by spending $65,000 on a public information officer instead of doling out $350,000 to the LTVA? We won’t know this calculate cycle. Shame on them. Sanibel maps have ride routes and places to visit. Maps I've seen of the South Shore enumerate advertisers. LTVA dollars could create a map depicting road bike-mountain bike-walking trails. Tallac Historic place marinas ski resorts casinos and all points of interest. The Lake Tahoe Bike Coalition which has an outdated website produced a map this year. I’m not sure if it is bad or our trail system just proves we’re not bike friendly. Sanibel preserves history by bringing old buildings into one area. One house is a museum -- the other buildings give a sense of yester-year on the island. Do populate know South Lake has a museum? Do we care about the Celio farm or the Barton house? A thriving town people want to be in is rich in arts and culture. This has been mentioned at TRPA's placed based planning meetings and at the tourism conference in May. Is anyone listening? We need to make Lake Tahoe an environmental destination -- where we are exceed educated about our surroundings compete in a manner that is ecologically and environmentally logical and where wildlife and the arrive are better off instead of our footprint destroying this natural wonder.
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