| Jean Dixon, professional photographer, and Katie Palani, professional student, undertook this project to show how the landscapes and urbanscapes of the Tahoe Basin have changed over the years. Many thanks to the UNR Special Collections department for furnishing all of the historic photos, and to Peter Goin for letting us use his Tahoe images shot in the early 1990s. Enjoy! |
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Field Notes
| This segment is a bit different from the others where Jean and Katie used historic images, images from Peter Goin, and took their own current images. For the Tahoe Keys, the shots are both aerial, and were taken from Special Collections at the University of Nevada, Reno. The first photo was taken before the development of the Tahoe Keys, and the second image was taken ca. 1950-1960 by the Lake Tahoe Area Council. For obvious reasons, Jean and Katie did not rent a helicopter to complete their own aerial shot of the Tahoe Keys. |
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History
| The area now known as the Tahoe Keys was originally called the Pope Marsh, and was Tahoe's only natural filtering system. The wetlands was dredged and developed by the Dillingham Corporation in the late 1950s to develop a marina, now the Tahoe Keys development. Before the development, the Pope Marsh was the largest wetlands in the Sierra Nevada. As a result of the development, the Truckee River now dumps water, sediments and nutrients directly into the lake, and without the natural filtering systme of a marsh or wetland, this results in clouding the lake with particulate matter and algal growth. |
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