The 20th annual Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe Golf Tournament is set for Oct. 14. The event annually raises more than $40,000 to support the work of the club, which assists more than 800 local kids throughout the year. Golfers receive a round of golf at Edgewood Tahoe, a gourmet buffet breakfast, beverages […]
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By Alex Hutchinson, Outside At Nike’s Oregon Project, a training program for elite distance runners at the company’s sprawling Beaverton campus, athletes have access to pretty much every recovery aid imaginable: a liquid-nitrogen-fueled cryosauna, an antigravity treadmill, an inflatable pneumatic compression tube, and on and on. So when 24-year-old Jackie Areson, an NCAA champ from […]
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The NIAA on Thursday afternoon canceled all school sporting events on Aug. 30-31 for schools in El Dorado, Douglas, Mono, Carson, Washoe, Storey, Lyon and Churchill counties. This is because the air quality is so poor. Most of the smoke that is lingering in these areas is from the Rim Fire burning near Yosemite. The […]
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By Aaron Kinney, Bay Area News Group SACRAMENTO — A proposed law to prevent the needless killing of mountain lions by state wardens cleared the Legislature on Monday and now awaits the approval of Gov. Jerry Brown. The legislation by state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would give California Department Fish and Wildlife wardens broader […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Ending decades of bitter disputes over fragile Mono Lake, Los Angeles and conservationists on Friday announced an agreement to heal the environmental damage caused by diverting the lake’s eastern Sierra tributary streams into the city’s World War II-era aqueduct. The controversy over alkaline Mono Lake, which is famous for […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times A federal proposal to make the Sierra Nevada as comfortable as possible for some of their rarest amphibian inhabitants has stirred a backlash from business owners over the economic pain it could cause the region’s recreation industry. Many opponents worry the proposal would do more to protect frogs and […]
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By Teri Mizuhara The recent wildland fire in Diamond Springs is a compelling illustration of how well defensible space works. Homes surrounding the fire area were spared major damage due in part to a swatch around the perimeter that had been mowed earlier in the year. his “defensible space” prevented the wildland fire from sweeping […]
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By Deborah Franklin, NPR Staying snug within a watertight tent as a storm rages around you is one of the joys of modern camping and modern tents. But if the weather suddenly turns nasty on your next camping trip, or nights are just colder than you expected, don’t be tempted to bring your cook stove […]
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By Kathryn Reed HOPE VALLEY – With each step, it seems like the landscape is changing. Smooth granite turns into coarse volcanic rock. Sandy footing becomes hardpack. Towering mountains and pines give way to 360-degree views. If this is anything what the entire 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail is like, it might be something I would […]
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Arborist William Probst will give a talk title Pruning — The Proper Way, The Proper Tools on Sept. 10 at noon. This free talk is sponsored by the South Tahoe Garden Club. It will be at the Ledbetter Terrace at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe.
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