By Wes Siler, Outside In the United States, pet dogs produce 21.2 billion pounds of poop each year. All that poop is polluting water sources, both in urban areas and the backcountry, largely because dog owners aren’t doing a good enough job picking it up. Let’s look at the reasons why dog poop has become such […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal It took a near-miracle but Lake Tahoe is once again holding enough water to supply Reno for as many as three years. That’s after a dismal start to winter during which snowpack in the Lake Tahoe basin was just 25 percent of the median peak on March 1. “We will […]
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By Kathryn Reed It will be 12 years ago this fall that four design teams vied for the opportunity to develop what is known as the 56-acre parcel in South Lake Tahoe. The future of much of that land is still undetermined because the city and county are not on the same page. The county […]
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By Associated Press A new study on housing availability in western Nevada says there’s little hope of expanding affordable rental opportunities for residents on the shore of Lake Tahoe. The study concludes the “sheer expense” of development in Douglas County from south of Sand Harbor to the California line “makes it impractical for the development […]
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By Julie Cart, CalMatters Dave Kinateder has a keen eye for trees. But when Kinateder, a fire ecologist in the Plumas National Forest, surveys a hillside lush with pines, he doesn’t see abundance or the glory of nature’s bounty. He sees a disaster-in-waiting. “It’s a ticking time bomb,” he said, gazing across the dense, green […]
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By Kathryn Reed Prevention can save lives, especially when it comes to drug use and school violence. Once a year sixth-graders on the South Shore participate in the Drug Store Project. Today is that day. It’s one of the few proactive educational pieces left for Lake Tahoe Unified School District students to participate in. “Regardless […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal During the late afternoon hours of March 4 there was no reason to think Olga Perkovic and her son, Aaron, were in any danger. Perkovic, 50, a lifelong skier, and Aaron, 10, a member of the Kirkwood JETS ski team, had just spent the day doing what they loved at […]
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By Kathryn Reed March was good, but it wasn’t a miracle. That was the conclusion Monday of the snow survey. While the water content increased dramatically in a one-month period, it is only at 52 percent of average for the state. The manual measurement that was taken April 2 near Echo Summit recorded a depth […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lives are expected to be saved. Structures might be as well, but the primary purpose of South Lake Tahoe Fire Department’s new vessel is to be a rescue boat. Advanced life support will be able to be administered on the water. In the past only basic first aid was rendered. The boat […]
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By Calvin Morrill and Michael Musheno, The Conversation When we first visited the school that is the focus of our forthcoming book “Navigating Conflict: How Youth Handle Trouble in a High-Poverty School” back in 1995, students were free to move about campus during lunch and other free periods and a culture of trust prevailed. All […]
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