By Melinda Myers Reduce your workload, increase productivity and be water wise, whether you are planning, planting or already harvesting produce or enjoying beautiful floral displays from your garden. Container gardeners may want to invest in self-watering pots. These containers have built-in reservoirs to reduce watering frequency. Commercial and homemade self-watering devices can also reduce […]
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By Kathryn Reed Cycling in the Lake Tahoe Basin can be compared to driving in rush hour traffic. It’s a lot of stop and go, along with frustration. With the lack of connectivity, routes abruptly stopping and harrowing experiences when having to interact with vehicles, two-wheelers in Tahoe are often relegated to second-class citizens – […]
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By Yitka, Outdoor You’re hiking through a grove of spruce trees on the Pacific Crest Trail when you hear voices up ahead. Fifty yards away you spot a few pop-up tents and several dozen people hanging out, cheering. They offer you a cold soda and some chips and cookies. They’re hosting a trail running race, […]
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By Frederick Reimers, Outdoor During a high speed impact, a camera attached to a helmet becomes a weapon. In order to protect wearers, the Grimnir’s carbon fiber shell is reinforced beneath its two built-in camera mounts. Photo: Courtesy of Sweet Protection Starting next fall, Norwegian helmet maker Sweet Protection will bring what it’s calling “the […]
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The Tahoe Fund and the Tahoe City Rotary are hosting a panel discussion and dinner with local aquatic invasive species experts to learn about current efforts to control the spread of aquatic invasive weeds at the Tahoe City Dam and down the Truckee River. he event will take place at 6pm May 19 at Moe’s Original […]
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The Amgen Tour of California Women’s Race at Lake Tahoe is seeking community members, businesses, service groups, and cycling aficionados to volunteer during the two stages, May 8-9. The Local Organizing Committee is seeking 300 volunteers for the first stage and 200-250 for the second. Participants may get involved either or both days and commitment […]
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The U.S. Forest Service may continue prescribed fire operations beginning April 13, weather permitting. Operations may take place in Blackwood Canyon between Tahoe City and Tahoma, on the south side of Meeks Bay, at Ski Run Boulevard near Heavenly and on the East Shore near Logan Creek Drive. Operations may last through the next several […]
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The public is invited to join Rotarians on May 16 for a 3K Lake Tahoe Walk To End Polio starting in the back parking lot of Harveys. The walk is a gentle stroll of 1.87 miles suitable for all ages and fitness levels. It is from 8:30-10:30am. The cost is $15 per person and includes a […]
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Crews spent hours last week manually replanting 324 acres in Eldorado National Forest burned in the King Fire last fall. The seedlings currently being planted will re-establish plantations in units that were previously planted after timber harvests in the early 1990s, as well as units planted after the 1986 Hale Fire, and other units that were […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle In the strange and continuing saga of California’s weather and water, the three best whitewater-rafting destinations — the South Fork American, Tuolumne and Middle Fork American — should have sensational conditions this summer in spite of the drought. The rivers are not expected to be in crisis in spite […]
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