Fire restrictions on National Forest System lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin begin July 1 and will remain in effect until the official end of fire season. Campfires will be restricted to certain exempted recreation sites and other fire-related activities will be prohibited. Illegal and unattended campfires cause more than 90 percent of wildfires in […]
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By Robert Kuo, Sacramento Bee The California Department of Fish and Wildlife posted two videos last week of a wolverine in the Tahoe National Forest captured by cameras earlier this year, stirring the same excitement that occurred in 2008 when a similarly rare California sighting occurred after an 86-year absence. The first video from this […]
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Wildfire prevention is everyone’s responsibility, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Possession of fireworks of any kind, including firecrackers and sparklers, is illegal in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Campfires and portable charcoal grills are not permitted on National Forest beaches or in the general forest. If planning to barbecue on the beach, bring a portable […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle The summer horror story is a getaway or camping vacation that is overrun with crowds. The vision is fed by year-round traffic nightmares in the Bay Area, Sacramento and other cities, where people jammed shoulder to shoulder can start to feel like an omnipresent condition you can’t escape. Yet with […]
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By Kathryn Reed Saying you didn’t know the rules isn’t good enough. “They don’t understand if takes time and effort to rehabilitate the damage and it is taxpayer dollars that go toward that,” Frank Machler with the U.S. Forest Service said. He’s talking about damage to forestland by motor vehicles. Machler is a law enforcement […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP A federal agency is on a path to sterilize wild horses on U.S. rangeland to slow the growth of herds — a new approach condemned by mustang advocates across the West. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management also continues to resist calls from ranchers and western Republicans to euthanize or sell […]
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By Kate Flanagan, InMenlo “Getting from point A to point B” has been a major part of Scott Kaloust’s life ever since he first learned to swim from one end of the pool to the other. Now, decades after he first jumped into the water, he still applies that principle — both to his swimming endeavors as […]
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By John Markoff, New York Times GLENBROOK — A vast, largely unexplored world is being opened by hobbyists piloting robotic submarines capable of traveling hundreds of feet below the surface of lakes, rivers and oceans. Styling themselves as citizen scientists, two young engineers, Eric Stackpole and David Lang, have created OpenROV, a small start-up based […]
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By Sammy Caiola, Sacramento Bee A Sunnyvale family of four had to seek rescue from the Truckee Fire Department and California Highway Patrol when their youngest child became so ill from dehydration that she could no longer walk. Father Kent Johnson and mother Patricia Johnson were on a four-day backpacking trip with their two daughters […]
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By Brant Allen Does this year’s snowpack and cool spring rains mean swimmers will have to delay their summer Tahoe adventures? Not necessarily. Interestingly, Lake Tahoe’s surface water warms at about the same rate each year regardless of the winter snowpack. As solar radiation increases during the longer days of spring, the surface water begins […]
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