By Maria Mircheva As you may know, sugar pines and other white pines are plagued by a nonnative invasive pathogen. White pine blister rust kills about 90 percent of sugar pines it infects. Scientists and restoration managers have agreed that the only effective restoration strategy is to identify seed trees resistant to the rust and […]
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Bike friendly wasn’t the phrase that came to mind while riding the South Lake Tahoe bike trail (on Earth Day of all days) that goes behind Meeks Lumber, by the Upper Truckee Marsh, through neighborhoods and farther west paralleling Highway 50. Definitely take a mountain bike. The cracks are so wide it is like riding […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gliding along the perfectly groomed trails at Spooner Lake is no longer an option – and not because the seasons at Lake Tahoe are changing. For 27 years, Max Jones has run the cross country ski center as concessionaire for the Nevada Division of State Parks. And for a dozen years he […]
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Starting on Monday, the eighth installment of Miss Superpark is coming to Squaw Valley. More than 50 of the world’s top female riders are making the trip to North Lake Tahoe. Gretchen Bleiler, Erin Comstock, Jenny Jones, Jamie Anderson, Kimmy Fasani, Enni Rukajärvi, Jess Kimura, Kelly Clark and many more are getting ready to open […]
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By Jim Gardner, San Francisco Business Times If a giant coast redwood falls in the forest, there’s a good chance Dave Milarch would hear it. The beefy, Camel-smoking fourth-generation Michigan tree nurseryman is on a mission to clone the world’s oldest, largest trees. He’s now turned his attention to the gigantic Sequoias that dot northern […]
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Improvements to the Rubicon Four-Wheel-Drive Trail in the Eldorado National Forest can move forward now that the U.S. Forest Service has granted an easement to El Dorado County for the Rubicon Trail where it crosses National Forest lands. The feds also authorized a number of road and recreational opportunity enhancements. A bridge will be built, […]
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By Dan Hixman, Reno Gazette-Journal Should anyone at the Chamber of Commerce or the RSCVA want to get some nice, color photos of Truckee Meadows golf courses to distribute to travel magazines, this would be a good time to wait. Reno’s golf courses look like Kansas’ wheat fields, post harvest. Golfers are no doubt frustrated […]
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By Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman An armada of 41 flexible barges infested with quagga mussels during construction work in Lake Mead were stopped by Idaho’s boat inspection program. The barges were heading back to Seattle after work on the new Las Vegas water intake tunnel was completed in Lake Mead. Mead has been infested with […]
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By Andrew Adamson, KOLO-TV “I’ll put it to you like this, the more you play, the more you find out there’s more hazards than fun,” says RFD Suppression Capt. Greg Claiborne. In his 27 years with the Reno Fire Department, Claiborne has seen just how dangerous the Truckee River can be. Last year was especially […]
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By Cheryl Millham About the third week in March, we started receiving dead adult Pine Siskins at an alarming rate. The first thing we thought about was West Nile virus (WNV), so we started giving out that phone number (877.WNV.BIRD). It is a toll free number and, if the lab is interested, they would give […]
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