By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Schools in the El Dorado County community of Georgetown thrived a decade ago, with close to 2,000 students enrolled in classes. Today, barely 1,250 students attend Georgetown schools – a number that will likely continue to fall. New enrollment projections from the California Department of Finance predict El Dorado will […]
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By Mike Wolterbeek With a record mountain snowpack changing to a “robust,” above normal, significant fire potential, wildland firefighting agencies are gearing up for another fire season – and UNR is ramping up its AlertTahoe HD/4K fire camera system, which overlooks and helps protect dozens of western mountain ranges and hundreds of square miles of […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – No longer is the number of piers at Lake Tahoe being disputed. Now the debate is about all the strings attached to build one. The latest plan calls for 10 public piers and 128 private piers, with a maximum of 12 every two years. The shorezone plan that was adopted […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada’s peak wildfire season could be late but it won’t be meek, if history is any guide. That’s because the record-busting winter snow and rain that soaked the state will leave behind a bumper crop rangeland grasses that will serve as fuel for late-summer fires. The northern and central areas […]
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By Kathryn Reed One incredibly wet winter will not rid the West of the beetle infestation that has devastated forests, especially in California where more than 102 million trees have died since 2010. “Bark beetles are still there. They will hatch and fly in early summer. Then we’ll expect to see additional mortality, but at […]
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By Kyle Spurr, Bend (Ore.) Bulletin Little is known about the Sierra Nevada red fox, a rare subspecies of the small mammal of which there are fewer than 50 living in Northern California. But a recently discovered population roaming the Oregon Cascades has excited wildlife biologists, who believe they have found a larger population. The […]
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By International Ski Federation Downhiller Travis Ganong of Truckee has been racing on the most impressive World Cup courses for the past eight years, claiming two victories, one of them this season in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. We took the time to catch up with him and talk about his season, his career, but also the specificities of […]
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By Kathryn Reed PLACERVILLE – With the sudden heat wave, it can seem like last winter’s deluge was in some other decade. For El Dorado County vintners, it’s all in a day’s work to contend with whatever Mother Nature brings. Growing grapes is farming. And all farmers know they are at the whim of the […]
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By Shane Downing, Sierra As you’ve probably heard by now, virtual reality technology—or VR—is shaking up industries as disparate as gaming and real estate, filmmaking and journalism, tourism and (no surprise there) pornography. The 360-degree video presentation, which sometimes is also rendered as 3D, has the power to create immersive experiences that seem remarkably real. […]
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By Jamie Biesiada, Travel Weekly From a projected increase in Americans traveling this Memorial Day weekend to a steady growth in air travel, all signs are pointing to a very healthy industry, one of the most robust that some executives say they have seen. “If I look at this historically, I think we are currently […]
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