By Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times Regular exercise may alter how a person experiences pain, according to a study. The longer we continue to work out, the new findings suggest, the greater our tolerance for discomfort can grow. For some time, scientists have known that strenuous exercise briefly and acutely dulls pain. As muscles begin […]
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By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee SONORA — With a fish net in one hand and backpack in the other, UC Davis fish biologist Peter Moyle set out across the dry Sierra foothills Thursday to look for a fish he feared was destined for extinction because of drought. What he found puzzled him. On a dry […]
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The U.S. Forest Service has been busy completing paved and dirt trails in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The new Fallen Leaf Bike Path is approximately 2,000-feet long and 10-feet wide. It connects the Fallen Leaf Campground to the Pope Baldwin National Recreation Trail. At just more than 3 miles, the Monument Pass Trail connects High […]
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The 6th annual Bocce Tournament presented by GoPro and the Truckee River Winery is Sept. 14. The event raises money and awareness for athletes who have suffered a life-altering injury while pursuing a dream in the winter action sports community. Money raised supports a variety of High Fives Foundation endeavors such as the purchase of […]
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By Jim Robbins, New York Times SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK — High in the Sierra, biologists are struggling to find ways to protect some of the world’s oldest and most storied trees from drought, forest fires and climate change. The trees are the giant sequoias, some of them 2,000 to 3,000 years old, and they are […]
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By Kathryn Reed One fatality and multiple rescues have kept El Dorado County’s search and rescue team out in the field much of the last week. As the search team was getting one victim onto a helicopter Aug. 12, they got a call of a person having drowned at Eagle Lake. Because they were in […]
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By Siemny Chhuon, KXTV WEST SACRAMENTO – A West Sacramento man was rescued after being missing for five days in the wilderness. Mike Vilhauer, 58, is now in the comfort of his own home. It’s a place, at one point, he didn’t think he’d see again. “I started thinking, ‘I’m going to be here and […]
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By Alexandra Ossola, Popular Science In 2011, a male gray wolf called OR-7 left his pack in Oregon and traversed over 1,200 miles. While this sort of travel isn’t atypical for gray wolves, the terrain that OR-7 covered set him apart from the pack; he became the first confirmed wolf in California in almost a […]
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By Barry Starr, KQED-TV Here in the U.S., we are bombarded with an almost constant barrage of information about the benefits of exercise. And those benefits are real. For example, exercise may help prevent at least 35 chronic unhealthy conditions and premature death. Despite all of this, something like 90 percent of us over the […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College’s men’s and women’s intercollegiate soccer teams are getting ready to kick off their inaugural season. The public may meet the teams Aug. 15 at 1:30pm on the soccer field. The women’s team is hosting an open tryout that day at 3:30pm. Interested players should contact coach Chris DeLeon at cadeleon@mail.ltcc.edu or […]
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