Squaw Valley Park in Olympic Valley will remain open this winter to offer a free snow play option. The park’s parking area will be plowed all winter, creating a free and convenient place to park and play. For the backcountry enthusiast, the park offers access to a spur trail that leads up a steep ascent […]
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By Ciji Taylor Traveling at speeds up to 14 mph, wildfires can quickly ravish landscapes and homesteads. Experts with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, (NRCS) are studying what plants can slow fire rather than fuel it. NRCS’ Plant Materials Centers evaluate and study plants, including those that can reduce fire damage or losses, helping keep […]
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By Doug Puppel and Nikole Robinson Carroll, Nevada Public Radio After being declared nearly extinct in Nevada in 1979, black bears have staged a comeback in the state, with a population today numbering in the hundreds. Fanning out east and south from Lake Tahoe, bears are repopulating the Great Basin ranges that hunting, logging, and encroaching […]
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By Ally Gravina, Moonshine Ink Achieve Tahoe, formerly Disabled Sports USA Far West, was founded 50 years ago by the late Jim Winthers, a World War II veteran of the 10th Mountain Division and director of the Soda Springs Ski School. To recruit participants, Winthers and other vets would walk around Letterman Army Hospital in […]
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By Associated Press AAS-FEE, Switzerland — The athletes’ half-hour commute in the Swiss Alps — up two gondolas, then through a tunnel in the world’s highest underground train to a glacier at 11,000 feet — served up daily grim reminders that global warming is threatening their line of work. After exiting the train, they squelched […]
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By Greg M. Peters, Forests Magazine Tucked into the Douglas fir and ponderosa pine forests of Northern Idaho sits the quaint lakeside town of Coeur d’Alene. The former lumber town is now a popular tourist destination drawing families from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Gone are the pounding mills, replaced with fancy lakefront hotels […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was a hunting expedition of a different kind, which netted more than a hundred waterfowl, a ruby-crowned kinglet, magpie, stellar jay, meadowlark and more. These birds were captured in photos, through binoculars, high-powered telescopes, and with pen and paper. The birders were out in force on Sunday for the annual Christmas […]
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By Karen Price, Team USA Olympic medalists Maddie Bowman and Devin Logan both had the opportunity to qualify for the 2018 U.S. Olympic halfpipe skiing team with a win at Friday’s Dew Tour stop in Breckenridge, Colo. Instead, Canada’s Cassie Sharpe took first place, and the Americans will have to wait. Bowman, the defending Olympic gold […]
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By Garvin Thomas, NBC Elena Hight moved to Lake Tahoe from Hawaii when she was 6, so snow was new to her. Acrobatics, weren’t however. Her parents tell her she was jumping off everything by the age of 2. And now, after a big setback, Hight is hoping to jump back into the games. Read […]
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By Matt Hansen, Powder For a pastime that was built around the notion of escape and freedom in the mountains, getting to the ski hill now feels like we’re lurching in the opposite direction from those ideals: stop-and-go traffic, idling cars spewing exhaust, drivers angry at one another as they jockey for position. Though […]
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