Lake Tahoe is healing itself!

American Thinker ^ | 04/16/2023 | Jack Hellner

[SeekAndFind]

For decades, environmentalists have been bemoaning the fact that Lake Tahoe’s waters were losing their clarity and blaming humans.  The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection:

Between 1968 and 2000, approximately one-third of Lake Tahoe’s unique clarity was lost.

The presumption was that humans must fix the problem that we must have caused:  

To address this issue, NDEP collaborated with the California Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (Lahontan Water Board) to develop the Lake Tahoe Total Maximum Daily Load. the Lake Tahoe TMDL was a robust science-based effort to: better understand the causes of the loss in lake clarity, determine how much pollution needs to be reduced, and develop a workable, cost-effective strategy to reinstate historic clarity. The effort resulted in a TMDL Report that was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in August 2011.​

Yet now we learn via The Reno Gazette Journal:

In 2022, Lake Tahoe was especially blue.

Over the last five months of 2022, scientists measuring the lake’s clarity could see down 80.6 feet. It was the clearest the lake has been since the 1980s, according to a report released by the U.C. Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center.

But it is nothing that humans have done that has clarified the waters:

… a report from the Tahoe Environmental Research Center concluded that the change in zooplankton was the largest contributor toward improving the lake’s clarity.

Two notable zooplankton returned this past fall and winter – daphnia and bosmina. They had largely disappeared from Tahoe after invasive mysis shrimp were introduced in the 1960s. The shrimp were so abundant in the lake that a California nonprofit group was studying ways to harvest the shrimp and turn them into dog treats.

In 2021, the mysis shrimp population crashed unexpectedly, and a year later, daphnia and bosmina were thriving.

[SeekAndFind]

The waters of Lake Tahoe are clearing up because God made creatures that clean it up. They are not clearing up because of the radical green agenda or because we are being forced to drive flammable, polluting electric cars instead of efficient affordable gasoline powered vehicles.

[PeterPrinciple]

Two notable zooplankton returned this past fall and winter – daphnia and bosmina. They had largely disappeared from Tahoe after invasive mysis shrimp were introduced in the 1960s. The shrimp were so abundant in the lake that a California nonprofit group was studying ways to harvest the shrimp and turn them into dog treats.

In 2021, the mysis shrimp population crashed unexpectedly, and a year later, daphnia and bosmina were thriving.

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And that folks is what a system is. A God created system, He is good at systems.

[rktman]

Hmmmmm! With all the snow waiting to melt, how much silt will we get. Guess we need to go up and check it out.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yes, but He has a system for all His creatures.

He has one for mysis shrimp, and another for zooplankton, and even a system for both.

[Ann Archy]

AMEN!!!

Does ANYONE think Humans could live with DINOSAURS?

God has a Plan for EVERYTHING and EVERYBODY!

[Sacajaweau]

Remember when they went nuts after the Gulf “spill”...but the bugs were eating the oil up like crazy...and the cleanup folks were aghast!! It was like....OMG...

[GaltAdonis]

Mysis shrimp -

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

There are also several little creatures that EAT plastic. One of them eats the plastic in landfills/soil; another consumes the plastic in the oceans.

Reminds me of the Gulf Oil accident, where the oil was pouring into the Gulf waters after the drill pipe broke. The questimates for the amount of oil released into the Gulf were from ‘a lot’ to ‘a lot more.’ Later they stated they could not find over half of the questimated oil. Turns out, just like plastic, there are little creatures that eat oil. What the Drive-By Media will never admit or inform is that oil is seeping out into the oceans from the ocean floor all the time. It is part of nature. It is food for some creatures, and a GREAT source of energy and products for us. When an extra large amount of oil is released into the ocean, there develop large plumes of these creatures that eat the oil. Imagine an all-you-can-eat buffet.

[fr_freak]

What the Drive-By Media will never admit or inform is that oil is seeping out into the oceans from the ocean floor all the time. It is part of nature.

Remember when the "experts" insisted that oil came from fossilized dinosaurs? A lot of global warming con artists still refer to oil as a "fossil fuel".

[Maine Mariner]

“Imagine an all-you-can-eat buffet.”

Yes I am afraid I can. Those buffets are the bain of my existence and one reason I am overweight.

[dangus]

“Fossil” fuel does not refer to dinosaur fossils, but to carbon deposited during the epoch known for many, many decades as “carboniferous.” This epoch was many times earlier than T-Rexes. Coal itself is believed to be a fossil. I do however subscribe to the less popular notion that natural gas and petroleum often comes form the “moho layer.”

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

“”Remember when the “experts” insisted that oil came from fossilized dinosaurs?””

Ah, yes. I love telling the environazis about the moon Titan. There are oceans of hydrocarbons on the surface, and who knows how much underneath. Titan is a one of the moons orbiting the planet Saturn. I sincerely doubt that ancient dinosaurs and savannas created these hydrocarbons

[minnesota_bound]

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[minnesota_bound]

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[Trailerpark Badass]

Two years after I moved into my current house. we had an infestation of Japanese beetles that ate the foliage of the bushes and trees in our front yard. Our neighbors had them, also.

We sprayed them, put out traps, etc, but they came back the next two years.

That third year, I noticed a small wasp was also colonizing the plants in our front yard, even building nests in our mailbox. I thought I might need to get rid of them too, until I saw their larvae feeding on the beetles.

Buy the end of that spring, the beetles were gone, and have never come back in 18 years. The wasps are gone too.

[healy61]

When an animal dies, natures cleanup artist leave nothing but the bones.

[healy61]

the Great Lakes, and now many inland Michigan lakes have been inundated by non-native molusk. Small, but they do clean the water up. I think the PTB should stop introducing crap to lakes and areas. It is always a disaster.

[Lou Foxwell]

At Father Fish on YouTube we have been teaching the importance of creating natural conditions to develop healthy aquariums. Countless people are learning the importance of allowing nature to work uninterrupted by chemical and intrusive actions.

[Maine Mariner]

Thank you for the John Pinette videos, LOL.