The University of California Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center’s Katie Senft lowers a Secchi disk to measure lake clarity in June 2021. Researchers take dozens of such measurements throughout each year.

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Report: Algae hit all-time high at Lake Tahoe

Floating algae tripled at Lake Tahoe last year in part due to wildfire smoke and in part because the microscopic critters that eat algae have seen a decrease.

• By Staff Report
• July 30, 2022