• Start your week with a Concert at Commons Beach in Tahoe City. Beginning June 22nd, there are concerts every Sunday from 3pm to 7pm. Enjoy local, regional and national performers while you take in the ambiance of this lakeside event. Bring your picnic basket and a low-backed chair. For more information including a schedule of performers, click on the Concerts at Commons Beach website. • One of Continue Reading
Hike for Hounds, Galena Creek State Park
Bring your best friend to this event at Galena Creek State Park, south of Reno, on June 7th from 10:00am-1:00pm. Hike in the Sierras where you will enjoy magnificent vistas and be surrounded by beautiful pines. If you power down the trail, the hike will take about one hour, but if you stop to enjoy the scenery, a little longer. The reward at the end of the hike, for both you and your hound, is Continue Reading
Trail Running for Everyone in Lake Tahoe and Squaw Valley
Tahoe Trail Running is offering several runs in the month of June. Check them out below. • Truckee Running Festival is a great family event on Saturday, June 7th. The run begins and ends at Riverview Park in Truckee and offers the opportunity to do a 5K or 10K or a Half Marathon. There are even short races for kids. For more details, course map and registration, click on the Truckee Running Continue Reading
Lake Tahoe Bike Races Coming Up in June
On Sunday, June 1, 2014, the 72-mile America’s Most Beautiful Ride—Lake Tahoe begins and ends in Stateline Nevada on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe. As you travel clockwise around the Lake you will encounter a challenging 800 foot climb to a rest stop overlooking Emerald Bay and then, on the north end of the Lake, a 1,000 foot climb to Spooner Junction. There is a total of over 4,024 vertical Continue Reading
Court Ruling on TRPA Regional Plan Update Appealed
In the ongoing saga of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s regional plan update, the issues are the same according to the Sierra Club and Friends of the West Shore: • Judge John A. Mendez made the wrong decision when he upheld the regional plan. • The plan fails to properly analyze the impacts it will have on soil, water and air quality. • It fails to protect the fragile environment of Lake Continue Reading
State Parks Assumes Operations of Kings Beach State Recreation Area
The original plan for California State Parks to take over management of Kings Beach State Recreation Area on November 1st has been scrapped, and the new plan is to take over on May 15th. North Tahoe Public Utility District has been responsible for operations of the park since its establishment in 1978. The contract between State Parks and North Tahoe PUD expired December 5, 2008. However, the Continue Reading
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Regional Plan Upheld by Court
In a twenty-page decision rendered on April 8th Judge John A. Mendez ruled in favor of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s (TRPA) Updated Regional Plan stating that the TRPA acted properly when it approved the Updated Regional Plan. Further, the court upheld TRPA’s right to make policy decisions based on sound science and a complete record. The lawsuit filed in December 2012 by the Sierra Club Continue Reading
Officials Warn of Severe Fire Season in 2014
California is confronted by a drought emergency resulting in wildland fires in the middle of winter in a fire season that never really ended. In most cases, careless campfires have been the source of these fires. The moisture content of the snowpack in the latest snow survey was only 24 percent of average. The consequence of three dry years is an increase in the number of trees dying and a Continue Reading
Earth Day 2014 in Squaw Valley
The Tahoe Truckee Earth Day 2014 Festival takes place at the Village at Squaw Valley on Saturday, April 19th. The festival is a volunteer, non-profit event to celebrate the North Tahoe/Truckee region’s exceptional beauty and to preserve it for the ages. Educational booths will provide information on watershed and forest health, pollution prevention, alternative energy and waste management. The Continue Reading
State Parks to Take Over Management of Kings Beach State Recreation Area
California State Parks and the California Tahoe Conservancy announced on March 11th that they will jointly take over management of the Kings Beach State Recreation Area in November 2014. Day-to-day operations will be carried out by State Parks, and the Conservancy will subsidize a portion of the work. The parties provided assurances that the park will remain open year-round. Click here to Continue Reading
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