SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The snow year is off to a good start for 2022-23 after this month s snow followed by rain covering the mountains that feed into California and Nevada s water supply. As of December 29, the snowpack in the central Sierra is at 154 percent of the average for this date, and 52 percent of the April 1 average.
The U.S. government has joined a ski resort and others that have quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical features on federal lands in the West and elsewhere.
The changes announced Thursday capped an almost yearlong process that began after the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency, took office in 2021.