By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal The Nevada Board of Agriculture voted 8-1 to hand over control of as many as 3,000 wild horses in the Virginia Range to a yet-to-be-determined nonprofit group. The board’s vote in favor of the plan came despite widespread opposition from wild horse enthusiasts who say it puts the horses at […]
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While bobcats are known to live in the Lake Tahoe Basin, it’s unusual to see them. It’s even more rare to see three at once. But that happened today. Nancy Hedqvist spotted three cubs on Dec. 12 at about 1pm on Tahoe Mountain. Even more rare is to seem them in the daylight because they […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle On Sunday morning at Tahoe, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The long-range outlook, though not always reliable, showed no storms into early January. There’s hardly a soul there who isn’t concerned about the lack of snow in the forecast across the Sierra, Cascade and Shasta-Siskiyou ranges. The […]
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By Rick Maese, Washington Post While senior members of the Trump administration have suggested that tensions on the Korean Peninsula could force the United States to skip the Winter Olympics, the U.S. Olympic Committee on Friday reaffirmed its intention to send a full squad to the PyeongChang Games in February. USOC officials were taken aback […]
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By Elaine Glusac, New York Times In a DIY precursor to downhill skiing, the latest on-slope trend is to go uphill. Called skinning, the activity of walking up a downhill slope on skis to schuss back down exemplifies a no-pain, no-gain ethos among skiers determined to earn their turns for the sheer challenge (or to […]
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By Sean Higgins, Ski Racing It was an interesting weekend of racing in St. Moritz, Switzerland, to say the least. Weather forced the cancellation of two out of the three days of women’s World Cup action with a lone super-G from a lowered start taking place on Saturday. One could say the real winner […]
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By Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle For years, the Grove of Titans was barely more than a myth. Incredibly old. Incredibly large. And incredibly hard to find. It used to be that the grouping of eight old-growth redwood trees deep within Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park near Crescent City could be reached only by following […]
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By Debra J. Saunders and Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal Two national monuments in Nevada have been spared from dramatic downsizing, but Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke confirmed this week that he wants to see some land carved from Gold Butte in northeastern Clark County. Zinke is recommending what he characterized as a minor adjustment to […]
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By Peggy Shinn, Team USA COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. — Reno’s David Wise would like to win another Olympic gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. And the 27-year-old freeskier is finally one step closer. “It’s a boost of confidence, it’s a pressure ease, it’s everything,” Wise said with a big smile. “The […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. — As the best snowboarders and skiers in the world kicked off their quest to reach the South Korea Olympics next year, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, suggested that the United States’ participation in the Winter Olympics is “an open question.” In an interview […]
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