By Ellen Knickmeyer, AP At a state briefing on environmental rules that await growers entering California’s soon-to-be-legal marijuana trade, organic farmers Ulysses Anthony, Tracy Sullivan and Adam Mernit listened intently, eager to make their humble cannabis plot a model of sustainable agriculture in a notoriously destructive industry dominated by the black market. In line with […]
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By Jim Sloan The pika is a small, furry mammal that lives in the harshest of places — in mountainous rocky areas where the snow is deep, the air is cold, and conditions are unforgiving. The small-eared member of the rabbit family doesn’t even hibernate, choosing instead to burrow into hay piles it builds beneath […]
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By Jennifer Calfas, Time From a 17-year-old snowboarding star to a gold-medal-hungry women’s ice hockey team, Team USA’s athletes competing in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, are looking to make a mark. The official roster for Team USA will not be finalized until weeks before the 2018 Winter Olympics start Feb. […]
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By Story Hinckley, Christian Science Monitor The average American is using a lot less water on a daily basis. Six gallons less, to be exact. The US Geological Survey’s National Water Use Science Project has estimated water use in the United States every five years since 1950. In its most recent estimate published this fall, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Retirees are no longer going to be a drain on the taxpayers of South Lake Tahoe – at least when it comes to their health benefits. The obligation of retiree health care benefits goes away a year from New Year’s Day. This is the outcome of a protracted effort by City Manager […]
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By Kathryn Reed The botched roadwork in Tahoma in 2015 ended up costing El Dorado County thousands of dollars. Normally government agencies deny claims when they are submitted. Not so with this case. “These are unique claims in which the allegation of negligent application of emulsion and chips by county forces created an exposure to […]
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By Rong-gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times California’s dismally dry autumn paints a bleak outlook for the state’s rainy season, unless the weather this winter makes a big about-face. The situation is a major turnaround from last year, when Northern California was battered by a series of “atmospheric river” storms that helped end the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Thousands of Tahoe Donner residents could have been the victims of a price fixing scheme involving two snow removal companies in Truckee. A lawsuit was filed in Nevada County Superior Court last week against Elements Mountain Company – Jamie LeGare – formerly known as Jamie Waltman, Joanne Waltman and Matthew Warren. Ten […]
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By Keith Ridler, AP BOISE, Idaho — Federal officials have launched a two-pronged plan to stop a vicious cycle of rangeland wildfires in a wide swath of sagebrush country in the West that supports cattle ranching, recreation and is home to an imperiled bird. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Friday said it will create […]
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By Carter A. Hunt, The Conversation Travel is a major global industry, but in 2017 it attracted unprecedented resentment and retaliation towards tourists. A growing global backlash against tourism extended from tropical rain forests to urban destinations like Rio de Janeiro and Venice. I have studied tourism’s social and environmental consequences along the coastlines of […]
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