North American beavers transform ecosystems with their engineering prowess. By ponding water, excavating channels, and foraging nearby vegetation, they drastically alter landscapes across a variety of environments, from tundra to deserts.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. Autumn is here and on Sunday, Oct. 9, the full Hunter’s Moon will rise again, reaching its peak illumination at 1:54 p.m. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the best time.
This Tahoe Truckee hike is a meditation on Jeffrey pine and sagebrush
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Elizabethtown Meadows is a trail hidden in plain sight.
I’ve driven past the trailhead countless times, but I didn’t know the trail existed until a former colleague, who now works at the Tahoe Donner Land Trust, told me about it.
The trail begins near Northstar and heads north, traversing a gentle slopeside of Jeffrey pines and large alpine meadows for a couple of miles until it connects to a larger trail system at Waddle Ranch in Martis Valley. While Tahoe’s higher elevations are still buried in snow, Elizabethtown Meadows and Waddle Ranch are already dry, open and ready for hiking. If there s one thing to know about hiking in Tahoe in the spring, it s to start low and follow the snowmelt to the higher elevations.
Submitted by paula on Sat, 04/03/2021 - 7:17pm
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The following is a list of the long term and short term projects the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has scheduled for the week around Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra and El Dorado County. At this time there is no work scheduled for the South Lake Tahoe area.
LONG-TERM PROJECTS
U.S. Highway 50 (El Dorado County): Work continues on a $53.6 million safety project in the Camino area to replace the existing concrete median barrier and fill in the gaps in the barrier, build an undercrossing, a wildlife crossing, make local road improvements and replace culverts. The project is expected to be completed in 2022. No traffic-interfering work is scheduled on the highway. Westbound Carson Road is closed between Carson Court and Sierra Blanca Road for bridge work. Motorists are being detoured onto westbound Highway 50 and back onto Carson Road.