Imagine a baby-pool-sized bowl filled with food so irresistibly delicious that you were enticed to crawl inside and start eating it by the handful. Welcome to the messy, but undoubtedly delectable, life of a bee....
Hunger is one of nature’s most potent motivators. Just ask the Donner Party. But while these starving settlers might be the most famous Sierra residents to seek out “alternative” food sources to survive, they were not the first. Hidden in mosquito-infested wetlands, carnivorous plants of the...
Hard to comprehend how many stunning sunsets, torrential blizzards and cold, windy nights a Great Basin bristlecone pine tree sees in its lifetime. These remarkable trees, found only on high mountain ridges in Utah, Nevada and eastern California, are some of the longest-living organisms on...
Our next meeting is in 15 minutes. Capitol Hill is a bit overwhelming. We all feel it, but everyone also seems to be riding the collective good energy of our mission. We are athletes and creatives from across the country, and we are meeting with...
Brant Allen’s three-month stint at Lake Tahoe has lasted 34 years so far. After graduating from UC Santa Barbara with a marine biology degree, Allen was looking for short-term jobs in freshwater fisheries. He ended up taking a temporary position at a picturesque alpine lake shared...
California is home to some of the biggest trees in the world. Redwoods, Douglas firs and Sitka spruces that tower over the lush forests of the north coast. Giant sequoias of incomprehensible girth scattered across disparate groves of the Sierra Nevada. Stately sugar pines stretching...
Most people come to Lake Tahoe and find a marina. Mansoor “Elie” Alyeshmerni came to a marina and found Lake Tahoe....
California is no stranger to natural disasters. Between earthquakes, mudslides, floods and wildfires, the Golden State had been handed the short end of the stick by Mother Nature countless times....
In the decades since the Tahoe Keys housing development in South Lake Tahoe was built on sensitive marshland, it has vexed environmentalists as a problem without an easy solution. The 250-plus-acre area, which once acted as a sort of filter for the meandering Upper Truckee River...
Just past the break of dawn in early May, Will Richardson is in the parking lot of Aspen Grove in Incline Village, preparing to lead a group of birdwatchers into the woods. Coming from Truckee, Reno, Carnelian Bay—and even as far away as Oregon—each member...