Nearly a decade after his discovery, Buddy the wolverine remains an unsolved mystery On a cold February day in 2008, then-graduate student Katie Moriarty was scanning through images from her 20 remote cameras set up throughout Sagehen Experimental Forest near Tahoe when something caught her eye. “I...
Seeking to reverse the effects of decades worth of environmental degradation, the California Tahoe Conservancy plans to restore some 525 acres of the South Shore’s Upper Truckee River Marsh, the Tahoe Basin’s largest wetland area and of key importance to Tahoe’s ecological balance. “From a...
Historic winter snowpack presents challenges for those in charge of releasing water from Lake Tahoe The Truckee River is a place of refuge for rafting, fishing and contemplation. It’s also a ribbon of life supplying the water needs of downstream users from Tahoe City to Reno...
Wolves—a symbol of wilderness and an icon of the American West—likely wandered the woods of Tahoe and the surrounding Sierra Nevada a century ago. Though estimates put the country’s total wolf population at more than two million when European settlers first arrived in the...
Once on the brink of extinction, bald eagles are now thriving in the Tahoe Basin and beyond The local Paiutes call them “ggwe’na’a.” The Shoshone, “biagwi’yaa.” To all Americans, they are our national symbol. The bald eagle is one of the most magnificent examples of...
Questions arise about the state of aging dams in the Tahoe area When roughly 180,000 people were evacuated beneath the potentially failing Oroville Dam emergency spillway in Northern California on February 12, it brought into sharp focus what experts have been warning for years: Many of...
A two-year effort to agree on new regulations guiding shoreline activities around Lake Tahoe—a thorny issue that has eluded success over the years and which is given added urgency by the impacts of drought and climate change—is now underway. Government agencies, lakeside property owners, environmentalists...
Sierra Nevada agencies seek to mitigate rising tree mortality issues Over the past few years, large swaths of the Sierra Nevada’s evergreen western flank have turned a sickly red-brown, with an estimated 66 million trees dying since 2010. Some 26 million of those have perished in...
With the use of drones, Reno–Tahoe area is on the front line of cloud-seeding technology As winter storms approach the Sierra, experts with an eye toward squeezing every possible snowflake from those churning clouds will be watching closely. For the first time, those engaged in the practice...
Although traditionally vilified, some scientists say non-native species deserve a second look Officials at Lake Tahoe are once again ratcheting up the battle against aquatic invasive species. In language indicative of the war-like mindset taken toward invasives in the Basin, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) director...