By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — With drought gripping Nevada and much of the West, the state’s top water official and a state senator said it’s time to inventory how much water there is and who owns what by tidying up the books on water rights that pre-date state law. “Clearly if […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal Nearly 800 acres of open land along Interstate 80 near Verdi have new owners who are targeting much of it for development to meet demand anticipated with the region’s resurgent economy. Reno Land Development Company LLC recently closed on a $13.1 million purchase of 780 acres from Las Vegas-based Pinnacle […]
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Roadside stations for inspections and decontaminations of motorized boats and watercraft in Lake Tahoe open in May. The dates are: Opening May 1: 8:30am-5:30pm, seven days a week Meyers: at the junction of highways 50 and 89 Spooner Summit: at the junction of highway 28 and 50 in Nevada Alpine Meadows: Highway 89, off Alpine Meadows […]
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By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times Research released Wednesday suggests the shaking from “the Big One,” the long-predicted major earthquake on the San Andreas fault, could trigger additional large temblors on nearby faults, intensifying the overall seismic impact. The study suggests that such a quake “could presage a flurry of ‘other Big Ones’ on […]
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• Ted and Beth Gaines have moved to El Dorado Hills with the likelihood of the assemblywoman running for El Dorado County supervisor in 2016 and then being ready to run for her husband’s state Senate seat when he is termed out in 2020 — assuming he’s re-elected in 2016. • CouponsDaily.com has named Lake […]
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The Comstock History Center Museum is hosting a photo exhibit entitled Vanishing Icons: A Look Back at Comstock Mines and Mills. In 1980, a documentation project was undertaken on the Comstock to record the remains of historic mine and mill sites originally built throughout Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and Dayton during the late 1800s […]
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The Douglas County Public Library in Minden is sponsoring a special program called Organic Gardening with the Drought. Craig Witt from Full Circle Compost will be the speaker April 28 at 5pm. He will give tips on how to have a successful garden when water is in short supply. Heirloom tomato plants will be available […]
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By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink “Fish on!” A fisherman yells out as Mike Wier, outreach coordinator for California Trout, hooks into a behemoth rainbow trout in a pool just above the Fanny Bridge in Tahoe City. This 31-inch monster is one of roughly 40 trout that have become stranded in a short section of the Truckee […]
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By Todd Tanner, High Country News As Google Earth flies, it’s five miles and change from the Echo Lake Café in the Flathead Valley, one of Montana’s great little restaurants, up to a parking area at a trailhead that leads to Jewel Basin. Down here in the valley, we’re at 3,000 feet. Up where the […]
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By Teton Gravity Research When we set out on our quest to find the mountain towns with the largest carbon footprint, it was not an easy task. The hardest factor was to find a common denominator for all of these different areas. That’s when we discovered an interactive map of the United States created by […]
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