To improve boater services at Lake Tahoe this year, seasonal watercraft inspection stations will open Memorial Day weekend at four designated, roadside locations around Lake Tahoe. Access to roadside inspection stations are designed increase efficiency at Lake Tahoe boat ramps and increase access to aquatic invasive species decontamination equipment, according to watercraft inspectors. Four roadside […]
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The Tahoe Rim Trail Association is offering a Leave No Trace Training for Trainers on June 12–13 in Incline Village and D.L. Bliss State Park. This training will teach not only Leave No Trace wilderness skills and ethics, but also how to share the knowledge with others including teaching techniques and interactive Leave No Trace […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will begin the sale of fuelwood permits on June 1. Sales of permits will continue through Oct. 29. Cutting areas will remain open through Oct. 31. Permits cost $20 per cord, with a two-cord minimum purchase. There is a 10-cord maximum limit per household. The permit […]
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A team of exceptional athletes, many of whom are wounded Iraq and Afghanistan veterans representing all military branches, depart from the Golden Gate Bridge on May 22 for World T.E.A.M. Sports’ inaugural bike trek across America called Sea to Shining Sea. The goal of Sea to Shining Sea is to honor the courage of our […]
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Many campgrounds and recreation sites within the Tahoe National Forest will be open for Memorial Day, however snow is expected to keep some of the more popular sites closed until early or mid-June. “Our recreation crews and campground concessionaires have been working hard to get the campgrounds ready for the Memorial Day weekend,” Tom Quinn, […]
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Reno Gazette-Journal A local group of senior women, ages 50 and older, qualified for the United States Tennis Association’s Senior National Tennis Tournament held Oct. 8-10 in Palm Springs. The team will represent the Northern California area including Reno and Lake Tahoe in the championships. Read the whole story
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After a brief delay due to the issuing of a new 40-year special use permit by the U.S. Forest Service, the purchase of Sierra Summit Mountain Resort by ski industry veteran Tim Cohee closed May 21. Cohee immediately returned the resort to its former name, China Peak. “These types of transactions always have challenges at […]
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By Susan Skorupa, Reno Gazette-Journal Home means Nevada, as the state song says, but so do hot summer days with dry, insistent southwest winds, and acres and acres of cheatgrass and other combustible vegetation. Mix in a little lightning or some other ignition and you get wildfire. Each spring, state and local fire officials warn […]
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By Kathryn Reed For a City Council often divided and seldom united, especially when it comes to tourism issues, the board is in favor of supporting the Amgen Tour of California starting in South Lake Tahoe in 2011. Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority Executive Director Carol Chaplin made a brief presentation to the council this week […]
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The Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce is having its 12th Annual Summer Golf Classic, June 9 at Tahoe Donner Golf Course. There have been a number of improvements done to the course in recent years including rebuilding and repositioning of bunkers around the greens, adding new fairway bunkers, expanding fairway corridors, and constructing four sets […]
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