Wildfires, overdevelopment, and easy access to garbage have brought Tahoe's bears into increasingly close contact with their human neighbors. One local described a bear as "a five-hundred-pound police battering ram."
U.S. JOURNAL
Lake Tahoe, "the jewel of the Sierra Nevada," is an unusually clear, deep alpine lake that is twelve miles wide and twenty-two miles long. It straddles two states: California on the west shore, which is damper and greener, and Nevada on the east, which gives way, almost immediately, to high desert. "A kind of heaven," John Muir called Tahoe, in 1878, after raving about the diameter of its snowflakes and "lusty exercise on snow-shoes." Tahoe is about a third of the size of Yosemite National Park, yet attracts three times the number of annual visitors. During the pandemic, several thousand people, including a lot of Bay Area tech types, fully relocated to the lake, joining seventy thousand or so locals. Tahoe couldn't handle it. The traffic, the noise, the illegal parking-the trash. Last year's Fourth of July crowds left an unprecedented four tons of garbage on the beaches alone. Fodor's named Lake Tahoe one of the world's "natural attractions that could use a break in order to heal and rejuvenate," and suggested that outsiders avoid visiting for a while. The other day in Tahoe, I learned a new word: "touron," a combination of "tourist" and "moron."
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ART OF STONE
\"The Brutalist.\"
MOMMA MIA
Audra McDonald triumphs in \"Gypsy\" on Broadway.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
\"Black Doves,\" on Netflix.
NATURE STUDIES
Kyle Abraham's “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful.”
WHAT GOOD IS MORALITY?
Ask not just where it came from but what it does for us
THE SPOTIFY SYNDROME
What is the world's largest music-streaming platform really costing us?
THE LEPER - LEE CHANGDONG
. . . to survive, to hang on, waiting for the new world to dawn, what can you do but become a leper nobody in the world would deign to touch? - From \"Windy Evening,\" by Kim Seong-dong.
YOU WON'T GET FREE OF IT
Alice Munro's partner sexually abused her daughter. The harm ran through the work and the family.
TALK SENSE
How much sway does our language have over our thinking?
TO THE DETECTIVE INVESTIGATING MY MURDER
Dear Detective, I'm not dead, but a lot of people can't stand me. What I mean is that breathing is not an activity they want me to keep doing. What I mean is, they want to knock me off. My days are numbered.