At least 16 AmeriCorps members in the Tahoe Basin were terminated essentially overnight after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut funding to the AmeriCorps program nationwide on Sunday, April 27. Those included the Sierra Nevada Alliance’s ten in the Tahoe region and 25 total over the entire Sierra Nevada. The ten in the Tahoe Basin serve at host sites such as the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Trout Unlimited Truckee Chapter, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Sierra House Elementary School, and Sierra Club Tahoe Area Group. The cuts impacted another two CivicSpark AmeriCorps fellows with South Tahoe Public Utility District, and four with the City of South Lake Tahoe (co-hosted with South Tahoe Refuse and South Tahoe Fire Rescue). … Since 2007, SNA hosted AmeriCorps members have restored over 25,000 acres of land, monitored 8,000 watershed sites, and reached more than 250,000 individuals through environmental education and outreach.