Tahoe City resident Wolf Schaefer spotted a rare albino fir tree on the North Shore, and an albino redwood has been discovered in Cotati.

Insect hotels are one way to beautify your yard while making an attractive getaway for bugs and bees.

The sandhill crane was spotted in Truckee this fall as they migrated to California’s Central Valley for the winter.

The raccoon is one of the most common forest creatures, but some of its traits are anything but.

A life-long education in the great outdoors has taught Eve Quesnel to savor the natural wonders that are all around us.

Tahoe Institute for Natural Science's Big Year, which enlists locals and visitors' help to chronicle every bird species in the Tahoe area, begins Jan. 1.

Every two to three years, pine and fir trees shed their needles, an event known as a needle drop.

The red-tailed hawk is the prototypical mountain bird.

The tridentatas - sagebrush and bitterbrush - are synonomous with the West and provide the major groundcover for Tahoe.