Is now less healthy and, prone to burn again, this growing danger has long been a concern, but its been joined by another. The high desert is home to the sage grouse and it needs sagebrush to survive. Its now also on the verge of earning official threatened species status and that would have far reaching impacts. Keir there is real concern particularly from industrymining, ranchingthat without improvements to the great basin range land health well see reduced activity, less permitting. But keir and others at the Great Basin Institute are testing what may be a Game Changing solution. Researchers in washington discovered a naturally occurring bateria in the soil there that retards root growth in cheat grass and other noxious exotics. Theyre trying to find out if it will work here spraying a small amount of the microbe is sprayed on the soil in test plots. 69yearold Carolyn Batchelor was last seen monday evening in zephyr cove. She is 5feet 7inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds and was
And im eun yang. We want to check our weather, as well. Chuck bell with a closer look at your forecast. What about this rain, chuck. Just light rain here early this morning. Most of us are only going to have a few hundredths of an inch today at the most. But all drizzle all the time this morning with the fog and the nastiness out there. Drizzled to death today. No sun on saturday and sunday has washout potentials. Well talk more about that in about 20 minutes. For now, though, get you out the door on a friday morning, the best thing about the forecast is that its friday. Light rain and drizzle moving right into the metro area. Current temperatures are only in the mid to upper fourth and we wont s 40s. 46 this morning, 56 this evening. And off to a cool and cloudy start thop with temperatures ner 50 on your saturday. Update on a crash on the beltway. Thats right, update here top of the beltway outer loop after connecticut, all lanes now open. So no worries there. Taking a look at 66 fro