By Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee This year’s Christmas trees really appreciated last year’s wet winter. Visitors to Northern California tree farms can see the difference. Their favorite firs look fresher, the leaves plumper, the branches fuller. What a difference water makes. Five years of drought stunted many trees – and prevented farmers from planting more. […]
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By Aaron Gulley, Outside The rise of automatic shifting, integrated computers, lights, power meters, and radar has made us wonder: How much is too much? I just discovered that the latest road bike components on the market are smarter than I am. Five months ago, Allied Cycles shipped me one of the first test models […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal What’s the difference between bears in Nevada and the Chicago Bears? Bears in Nevada at least have a chance to recapture their glory days. That’s according to research that shows black bears are spreading hundreds of miles beyond the Sierra Nevada and into Great Basin ranges they abandoned long ago. […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal I’ve stayed in the luxurious Jacuzzi Suite on the 25th floor of Reno’s Atlantis hotel where from the hot tub you can gaze at the Sierra Nevada through floor-to-ceiling windows. I’ve also soaked in hot spring-fed stock tanks in remote Nevada valleys where instead of expecting room service people can expect to […]
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By Kathryn Reed PARK CITY, Utah – The name of a business can be incredibly powerful; the words that are chosen and the ones left behind. Such is the case with the National Ability Center in Utah. Disability is hardly in the staff’s vocabulary. They work with people who have orthopedic, spinal cord, neuromuscular, visual […]
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Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team will resume prescribed fire operations beginning Nov. 27. Weather permitting, North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District, California State Parks and the California Tahoe Conservancy will conduct prescribed fire operations above Incline Village, D.L. Bliss and Burton Creek state parks and near the airport in South Lake Tahoe. Each prescribed fire […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is seeking public input regarding a proposal to improve an eight-mile section of the Highway 28 from Spooner Summit to Sand Harbor. This proposal incorporates the third phase of the Stateline-to-Stateline Bikeway along with a planning effort to improve highway safety and enhance the corridor’s scenic […]
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By Kathryn Reed Hiking Angora Ridge just got better thanks to a bunch of mountain bikers and the U.S. Forest Service. No longer do people have to contend with vehicles or be on pavement to reach Angora Lakes. The nonprofit Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association partnered with the federal land owner to build a trail […]
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By Mari N. Jensen, University of Arizona Groundwater recharge in the Western U.S. will change as the climate warms — the dry southern regions will have less and the northern regions will have more, a University of Arizona-led research team reports. “Our study asked what will be the effect of climate change on groundwater recharge […]
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By Kathryn Reed If you thought Thanksgiving at Lake Tahoe was hot, you were right. And it had nothing to do with what was going on in the kitchen. South Lake Tahoe’s high of 65 degrees broke the record of 63 that had been standing since 1995. People were in shorts, and those at Zephyr […]
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