About 75 children will spend a lakeside day on Thursday, Aug. 3, learning about the environmental challenges facing the Tahoe basin. This free Children's Environmental Science Day is sponsored by The Incline Academy in cooperation with the UC Davis Tahoe Research Group and the League to Save Lake Tahoe. The Incline Academy is a secular, private school for pre-K through 8th-grade students in Incline Village, Nev. Youngsters ages 8 and up from as far away as Davis and Woodland will gather at Sand Harbor State Park, on the northeastern shore of Lake Tahoe, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for a beach clean-up and demonstrations and exhibits about issues ranging from declining lake clarity to regional development. A highlight of the day will be a trip aboard the UC Davis research vessel the John LeConte. "Giving children an education in conservation has been extremely important for addressing the problems in the Tahoe Basin. After all, they are the generation that will inherit Tahoe," said Charles Goldman, a UC Davis professor of environmental science and policy and director of the Tahoe Research Group, who will be one of the workshop leaders.