By Phil Taylor, High Country News As the Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary, lack of funding threatens its ability to fulfill its basic mandate to preserve America’s iconic scenic, historic and recreational sites for the public’s enjoyment. Congress has been tightening the agency’s purse strings. Annual appropriations, which make up about 88 percent of […]
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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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Sections of the Pacific Crest Trail near Lake Tahoe will be reconstructed. Crew members from the American Conservation Experience, Truckee Trail Foundation, REI and Tahoe National Forest will work north of Old Highway 40 past the rock climbing areas and the Summit Lake Trail, beginning at the junction with the PCT and proceeding north. These […]
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By Chris Rose The progress made on Lake Tahoe’s restoration over the last 20 years required significant capital investment from the public and private sectors. While the federal Bureau of Land Management does not manage any lands in the Tahoe basin, the agency has played an instrumental role in funding and coordinating the federal share […]
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Smartphones became Lake Tahoe’s first line of defense against the introduction of new aquatic invasive species this summer. Members of the Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species Program received real-time updates from other land managers about vessels traveling to Lake Tahoe from waters with a high risk of containing invasive species. The data-sharing app used by […]
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Eldorado National Forest and CalFire Amador-Eldorado Unit have signed an agreement which transfers $908,000 to the state agency to reduce hazardous fuels federal land. This is the first supplemental project agreement under the Good Neighbor Master Agreement between the California Natural Resources Agency and the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region which was finalized in January. […]
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By Tony Berendsen Many years ago while visiting the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco I went on a docent tour of modern abstract paintings. There was one giant wall sized painting dedicated to a single room. It was blue, that’s all, just a blue wall. I had no idea of how to appreciate […]
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South Lake Tahoe needs people to take a survey in order to retain its Bicycle Friendly Community designation. During this certification process the League of American Bicyclists reviews all bicycle related information submitted to them, which includes how many miles of bike paths/lanes are in South Lake Tahoe, what type of bike infrastructure improvements have been […]
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By KPIX-TV It’s been a beautiful summer at Lake Tahoe, but the buzz is that vacationers aren’t the only ones enjoying the water. Yellow jackets are all over the place. They’re aggressive, fast and much more active than they were last year. “Really, it’s a bad year, I mean everyone is closing their patio dining,” […]
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