The LTIMP is a cooperative program with support from 12 federal and state agencies with interests in the Tahoe Basin.

The name of the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit reflects a unique sort of National Forest, as unique as the resources of the Tahoe Basin.

Compared to other National Forest Lands the LTBMU is small, yet it is the Tahoe Basin's largest land manager, responsible for 78% of basin lands.

In 1899 when President William McKinley created the Lake Tahoe Forest Reserve becoming the core of later National Forest Lands in the Tahoe Basin.

Public Law 96-551 requires the planning entities at Lake Tahoe to reduce the use and reliance on the automobile for mobility in the Tahoe Basin.

Most of the 71 trails, at altitudes ranging from 6,550 to 10,100 feet, look out onto Lake Tahoe and the heavily wooded Sierra Nevada that ring the Tahoe Basin.

For Nonskiers At the top of Heavenly's aerial tram, a full-service restaurant offers a view of the entire Tahoe Basin.

Black Bears are increasingly common, with individuals being displaced from the Tahoe Basin and lower elevation western slopes into the higher country.

In 2001, the Lahontan Water Board contemplated filing an order to force closure of the east end of the trail near the Tahoe Basin.

Night skating, with the stars pressed overhead and the whole of the Tahoe Basin spread out below, is in some ways more exhilarating than skiing any of the Tahoe runs.