Tag: US Forest Service

High on the Meeks Ridge Trail, Sandor Lengyel turns dead and downed trees into magnificent trailside benches — and a simple place to sit — into a lasting legacy.

A former USFS hydrologist with 28 years of experience is urging residents to fight to maintain the Roadless Rule to protect water, forests, and wildlife. We need to improve the rule, not erase it.

The Tahoe City Public Utility District is rebuilding a failing Tahoma water system at major cost, but a proposed staging site sparked environmental concerns among neighbors.

A former US Forest Service employee warns of lasting damage to public land management as a result of the DOGE firings earlier this year. She urges citizens to act now to defend public lands.

A wildfire scientist argues that a bill to improve forest management supported by California Sen. Alex Padilla is in actuality a radical logging bill that would put communities at greater risk.

Tahoe City Scout Troop 266 has been cutting down and selling Christmas trees for over 50 years.

Public comment sought for owner-built homes; medication take-back event; more.

The Truckee Dirt Union executive director explains the upcoming closure of one of Truckee’s most popular mountain biking trails, Jackass Trail, and how you can make your voice heard.

With the two-year anniversary of the Caldor Fire approaching, the TRPA’s executive director remembers what it was like to live through the largest evacuation and fire in Tahoe’s history.