This confirms my suspicions. We just returned from a road trip and passing through Lake Tahoe, some of our favorite restaurants were half empty on Friday and Saturday nights.
I also must ask you and your readers to check out an opinion piece in today’s LA Times (Veronique de Rugy, 8/15/25, “A Climate Report without Denial and without Drama”). About a recent Department of Energy Report. I’m not sure what to make of it or how to respond.
My reading of this article is that the new policy makers got in and exposed to reality, they now sheepishly are forced to moderate. Oops. Nothing more than apologetics for their original denialism. It’s an inevitability. And I say it in awareness of ideology, despite this author’s presumptions.
The minor decrease in tourist numbers is probably a positive. Actually walked down main a month ago, tourist traffic was annoying not maddening. If the trend continues locals might reclaim their high season main streets. It will take more severe decreases to positively affect
long term rentals, housing affordability, or urban/ wild land interface sprawl etc etc but we can hope.
Fascinating that the decline in visitation to the SW parks diverge so much from the flat visitation numbers to Montana Wyoming.
This confirms my suspicions. We just returned from a road trip and passing through Lake Tahoe, some of our favorite restaurants were half empty on Friday and Saturday nights.
Informative as always, thank you Jonathan.
I must ask yo
I also must ask you and your readers to check out an opinion piece in today’s LA Times (Veronique de Rugy, 8/15/25, “A Climate Report without Denial and without Drama”). About a recent Department of Energy Report. I’m not sure what to make of it or how to respond.
My reading of this article is that the new policy makers got in and exposed to reality, they now sheepishly are forced to moderate. Oops. Nothing more than apologetics for their original denialism. It’s an inevitability. And I say it in awareness of ideology, despite this author’s presumptions.
The minor decrease in tourist numbers is probably a positive. Actually walked down main a month ago, tourist traffic was annoying not maddening. If the trend continues locals might reclaim their high season main streets. It will take more severe decreases to positively affect
long term rentals, housing affordability, or urban/ wild land interface sprawl etc etc but we can hope.