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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. As the Lake Tahoe Basin’s black bears emerge from their winter slow-down and slumber, campground managers, biologists, park rangers and wildlife officers hope to have a new tool at their…
This ABD Studio–Designed Vacation Home Is Like Grown-Up Summer Camp
“You can literally leave from the back door and go on a 45-minute hike,” says designer Brittany Haines of ABD Studio.
By Lauren Jones Suzanna Scott Photography
Martis Camp, a private gated community in Truckee, California, backs up to the Tahoe National Forest. “You can literally leave from the back door and go on a 45-minute hike,” says designer Brittany Haines of ABD Studio. “The clients even found a bear inside once, eating bacon straight from their refrigerator.” That would be Claire and Holden Spaht, who envisioned a sophisticated and modern but also laid-back getaway for them and their two teenagers when they hired Haines to design a vacation home in Martis Camp in 2015.
Officials try new tactics to get bears to behave
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TAHOE, California (KOVR) Tahoe is a roaring tourist attraction year-round, but when the snow melts, that’s when experts say black bears pose a threat – and it’s getting worse every year.
“It’s a real problem every summer. It was heightened last year during COVID with so many people looking to get out of the city,” said Peter Tira, a spokesperson with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “We are seeing bears become more bold, jumping on picnic tables, bluff charging people to scare them off to get the food. Then they are getting rewarded with the food and it reinforces that kind of behavior.”