By Kathryn Reed Douglas County commissioners, while they say they want water districts to consolidate, are gun shy to take a step in that direction even though staff this month asked them to do so. At their meeting in Stateline the electeds were presented with the option to financially separate the Cave Rock and Uppaway […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal A visit by President Bill Clinton in 1997 is credited with pushing Lake Tahoe onto the national stage. That visit, part of the first Tahoe Summit, rallied disparate interests from California and Nevada around the idea of Lake Tahoe as a singular political issue that crossed state lines and federal […]
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By John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle RENO — Politically, Nevada is the anti-California. The GOP runs both houses of the Legislature. Brian Sandoval, the state’s popular governor, is a Republican. Just like California, one party holds every state constitutional office, only in Nevada, it’s the GOP that ran the table. And in Nevada, there’s also […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun Beneath a purple glow, in a warehouse sharing the street with two indistinguishable strip malls, Kevin Biernacki is growing around 100 pounds of medical marijuana. The purpose of this facility, owned by The Grove, is no different than other cultivation sites in Nevada. Yet, the roughly 480 industrial lamps […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Economically, wine is huge for California – it’s a $58 billion industry, attracts 24 million tourists a year and employees 30,000 people. But it’s not the most environmentally friendly crop. UC Davis wants to change that reality. Jill Brigham, executive director of the Sustainable Wine and Food Processing Center […]
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By Frani Halperin, High Country News Sitting in a place they call the “mall” in the center of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus in Pasadena it’s shady and relaxing. Scientists confab at tables with umbrellas, sipping coffee, laptops open to graphs and charts. Jay Famiglietti, senior water scientist, is talking about NASA’s latest missions. The space […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — A legislative subcommittee Friday declined to request a bill draft to mandate meters on all domestic wells in Nevada but agreed to seek authorization for the state engineer to restrict domestic well use when groundwater curtailments are ordered. State Engineer Jason King stressed that curtailment has […]
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By Tom Lotshaw Restoring Lake Tahoe’s environment is no small feat. Tahoe is one of the world’s deepest, largest, and clearest mountain lakes, holding about 39 trillion gallons of famously blue water any given day—water that takes hundreds of years to flow through the lake and out the Truckee River. And long before any environmental […]
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By Brady McCombs, AP Populations of a rabbit-like animal known as the American pika are vanishing in many mountainous areas of the West as climate change alters its habitat, according to findings released Thursday by the U.S. Geological Survey. The range for the mountain-dwelling herbivore is decreasing in southern Utah, northeastern California and in the […]
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By Michael Doyle, McClatchy News Service A Sierra Nevada land swap that would add 1,317 acres to three national forests in exchange for about 30 acres serving the prominent Mammoth Mountain ski resort is nearer completion. After maneuvering that dates at least to 2011, the Forest Service on Friday pushed ahead with the proposal involving […]
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