The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit and the Tahoe Institute for Natural Science are hosting the fourth annual Lake Tahoe Bird Festival on June 8. This free family event from 10am-4pm is at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center, located three miles north of South Lake Tahoe on Highway 89. The event includes […]
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By Nate Schweber, New York Times PYRAMID LAKE — For most fishermen a 20-pound trout is a trophy, but for Paiute tribe members and fish biologists here the one Matt Ceccarelli caught was a victory. That Lahontan cutthroat trout he caught last year, a remnant of a strain that is possibly the largest native trout […]
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By KCRA-TV The state expects to have nearly as many inmates available to help during this year’s firefighting season as it did before a 2-year-old law began sending lower-level felons to county jails instead of state prisons, officials said Wednesday. Currently, 3,820 inmates are training in the state’s 44 fire camps, said state corrections department […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College is putting on a community forum April 30 from 6:30-7:30pm to discuss the possibility of intercollegiate men’s and women’s soccer programs. The college is researching developing a program in an effort to serve the community’s and students’ interests, and to create a more connected campus and a more vibrant sense of […]
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By Elyce Kirchner, Jeremy Carroll and Kevin Nious, NBC-Bay Area A bill aimed at improving safety standards at ski resorts moved one step closer toward becoming law on Wednesday. This comes following an NBC Bay Area investigation that exposed numerous safety hazards at resorts across the state. Senate Bill 564 would require ski areas to […]
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The Tahoe Rim Trail Association is offering a series of summer youth backcountry camps. They are an opportunity for teens to develop backcountry skills mountains of Lake Tahoe. Youth will be introduced to wilderness survival and first aid; backpacking; maps, gps and compass; backcountry cooking; leave no trace; and more. Maintaining part of the Tahoe […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee CalFire will begin defensible space inspections Monday in Amador County and on the West Slope of El Dorado County. “Hopefully people have been working on their defensible space this spring as it has been a relatively dry one,” Kelly Keenan, chief of CalFire’s Amador-El Dorado Unit, said in a written […]
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Chips the bobcat, whose rescue by a firefighter from the Chips Fire in Plumas County last August gained national attention, was released back into the wild Friday along with her den mate Sierra. The juvenile cats are 8 months old. Their other den mates, Tuffy and Sutter, are being released together in another region. Chips […]
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By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times Sierra Nevada bighorn are a genetically distinct subspecies of bighorn sheep, with the rams tending to grow flared, curling horns. The newly formed group of Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep barreled up rugged Olancha Peak last month, the 10 females and four males becoming the first new herd of the […]
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Kathryn Reed No one is counting the beavers in the Lake Tahoe Basin. No one knows if the population is growing, decreasing or has stayed stagnant through the decades. No one is even managing them. But anyone who wants to touch the beavers’ habitat or potentially do anything to the water they are building dams […]
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