• To protect the natural environment of the basin, with priority placed on preserving the exceptional clarity and quality of the waters of Lake Tahoe.
• To increase public access and recreation opportunities for visitors to the lake.
• To preserve and enhance the broad diversity of wildlife habitat in the Tahoe Basin.

Environmentally Sensitive Land To preserve environmentally sensitive lands through acqusition.	Public Access and Recreation To enhance public access and recreation opportunities.
Erosion Control To repair already disturbed areas through soil erosion control grants.	Wildlife Enhancement To protect, preserve, and enhance wildlife populations and the diversity of habitats that sustain them.
Stream Environment Zone To restore degraded wetlands and watershed areas.	Management To manage the lands it acquires so they can most effectively serve the purposes for which they were acquired.
Land Coverage and Other Marketable Rights To mitigate land-coverage impacts on water quality and permit the transfer of development rights from more environmentally sensitive areas to ones that are less sensitive.	Forest Ecology To protect, preserve, and enhance forest habitats and restore the processes that maintain them.