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Landscape Photography and Environment Blog
http://thomasbachand.com/blog/
Contemporary landscape photography’s insights and observations reach far beyond the natural environment. A close examination of the land will often reveal more about ourselves – as individuals, communities, and society at large. This blog is a discussion of the photographic palette, the land, and the stories within.
Recent Posts
Measuring Regional Ecological Changes
Highway construction. Reno, Nevada The Laboratory for Regional Ecological Activities is an interesting group working out of Stanford that monitors the regional effects of ecological changes. They can be found on the web here. To quote their site...
Lake Tahoe’s Impervious Surfaces
Off Season. Homewood Ski Resort. Lake Tahoe. Here’s another highlight of the work going on at the Desert Research Institute. Mary Cablk studies the connections between wildlife and the landscape. One of her projects of particular note for...
Skiing Green
Lake Tahoe ski resorts receive environmental ratings. An interesting article from the Associated Press discusses the Ski Area Citizens Coalition’s ninth annual environmental review. According to the article, Mt. Rose received a typical rating...
TRPA. Impartial?
Gated pier, Lake Tahoe, California Recent events have brought to mind an interesting Op-Ed from the San Francisco Chronicle in support of a federal judge’s injunction against TRPA’s policy allowing an increase of piers and buoys in Lake T...
Historic Shoreline Change at Lake Tahoe from 1938 to 1998 and Its Impact
Wetland. South Lake Tahoe, California. In the next few posts I wanted to turn people on to some of the great work being done on Tahoe by the folks at the Desert Research Institute. A few years back Ken Adams and Tim Minor wrote a shoreline study: ...
Global Warming Substantiated by US Military Satellites
Here’s an interesting article from the Observer about the release of previously classified spy satellite photographs by the Obama administration. This photography reveals striking space views of polar ice cap melting. Read the artice here....

