Spooner Meadow Restoration Project

Spooner Meadow is an important ecosystem along Tahoe’s east shore. It provides cover, perennial water, and food resources for over one hundred species of wildlife. Historical water channelization, grazing, logging, and a lack of natural fire events have reduced its capacity to function as a normal, healthy meadow ecosystem. Climate change threatens to eliminate Tahoe’s meadows via reduced snowpacks, declining groundwater, and warmer temperatures. Restoration of Spooner Meadow would maintain its role as a vital wildlife nesting and migration corridor. Restoration will involve Nevada Division of State Parks in order to balance natural resource objectives with recreational opportunities.