As part of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest’s hazardous fuels reduction efforts, the Carson Ranger District, in cooperation with Alpine County, Alpine Fire Safe Council, Alpine Watershed Group, and Sierra Nevada Conservancy, has begun a fuels reduction projects. The mastication project is located in Alpine County, approximately two miles southwest of Markleeville. Alpine County secured funding […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON — They’re baaaacccckkkk – the Kokanee salmon that is. With more water in Taylor Creek than in recent falls, the fish are spawning in good numbers this year. While it’s likely the run has not peaked, the die-off is already evident. On Friday a crawdad was gnawing away on a […]
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By Alexander Vershinin and James Ellingworth, AP ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — The future of the Olympics may just be in a basement in Turkmenistan. With leading Olympic figures considering a possible role for competitive computer games — known as esports — at the 2024 Games in Paris, a pan-Asian competition in the ex-Soviet state offers a […]
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The TAMBA sponsored Corral Night Ride is Oct. 21. Meet at the Corral parking area at 5:30pm. Expect to start riding about 6, and party until who knows when. The $25 fee ($20 for members) goes toward Tahoe’s trails. There will be a barbecue supplied by Chimayó afterward. All ages welcome. Costumes encouraged. The ride […]
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Fire restrictions in the Eldorado National Forest have been lifted. This means that people with a valid California campfire permit may have open campfires outside of designated campgrounds according to the terms of their permit. The permit is free from any Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management or CalFire office. Officials caution that wildfire season […]
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The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team, which includes local, state and federal fire and land management agencies in the Lake Tahoe Basin, will begin the fall prescribed fire program in early October, weather permitting. Each prescribed fire operation follows a specialized prescribed fire burn plan, which considers temperature, humidity, wind, moisture of the vegetation, and […]
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By Tony Berendsen Billions of years ago in an outer region of a solar nebula, the one we now call the solar system, gravity formed two large planets of gas, ice, and rock, billions of miles from our star the sun. They were different from the other six planets watched for thousands of years by […]
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The Fall Fish Festival will take place at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center on the South Shore on Oct. 7-8. Hosted by the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit in collaboration with the Tahoe Heritage Foundation, the festival is an opportunity to learn about the variety of fish species that live in Lake […]
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By Heather Hansman, Ski Breckenridge ski patroller Hunter Mortensen says it never fails. The instant patrol responds to someone seriously sick or injured on the hill, a doctor skis by. “They want to help but they’re used to perfect light and perfect conditions,” Mortensen says. “Then they see me on my hands and knees managing an airway and they ski away.” And, […]
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Volunteers with the Sugar Pine Foundation this fall will be planting more than 4,000 sugar pine seedlings, progeny of blister rust resistant parent trees. Help is needed on the following days: Oct. 15, 11am-1pm — Truckee River Day planting at Waddle Ranch Oct. 21, 10am-noon — SOS kids and Southwest Gas employee planting in Tahoe […]
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