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Scenic mountain road through Yosemite closes

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - After an unusual winter with very little snow, officials at Yosemite National Park are finally closing Tioga Road, the highest crossing of the Sierra Nevada.Pa...

Mount Rainier park official: Snowshoer found alive

SEATTLE (AP) - A 66-year-old snowshoer who had been missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday was found alive Monday by a team of three rescuers, a national park spokeswoman said.Yong Chun Kim, of Ta...

Mount Rainier park official: Snowshoer found alive

SEATTLE (AP) - A 66-year-old snowshoer who had been missing on Mount Rainier since Saturday was found alive Monday by a team of three rescuers, a national park spokeswoman said.Yong Chun Kim, of Ta...

California wildlife makes headlines in 2011

The year of 2011 was anything but quiet for the California Department of Fish and Game.
Pesky bears, a roaming gray wolf, significant poaching arrests, tsunami relief work and dramatic wildlife rescues were among the stories that captured the public’s attention.
DFG also welcomed new Director Charlton H. Bonham, who was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in August.

The winter that never started

Last year was the winter that never stopped, with snow through Memorial Day weekend and flakes into the first few days of June. But this year is the winter that never started. No snow at all in December. Look up at the hills, and you might mistake it for September.

Outdoors with Don Q: Some personal memories from the year 2011

By Don Quilici
As I look forward to the year of 2012 with high expectations, hopes and dreams, this is a good time to reflect back on some selected personal memories from the rapidly ending year of 2011. Here are my top memories:

Truckee man hurt jumping from national park cliff

By Kate McGinty, Desert Sun. A 23-year-old man was hurt Monday when he jumped from a cliff in Joshua Tree National Park. William Fleming was attempting ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../truckee-man-hurt-ju...

Lecture to follow Muir's battle to create Lake Tahoe National Park

TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Through thought provoking images, well-told stories and excerpts from John Muir's journals, Foothill College English professor Scott Lankford will trace Muir's high-stakes a...

Amgen bicycle race will not include Yosemite leg

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The Amgen bicycle race through California set for next year won't be including a dramatic backdrop of Yosemite National Park's famous granite icons.National Park Service offic...

Amgen bicycle race will not include Yosemite leg

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - The Amgen bicycle race through California set for next year won't be including a dramatic backdrop of Yosemite National Park's famous granite icons.National Park Service offic...

UNR helps scientists take the world’s temperature as well as Lake Tahoe to monitor invasive weeds

By Mike Wolterbeek
From the suffocating heat of Death Valley to the bone-chilling cold of Antarctica, scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are leading the way in new, more precise methods of collecting important temperature data from around the world.

Fire near Yosemite now 80 percent contained

STANISLAUS NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters have begun repairing ecological damage caused by the creation of fire lines as a blaze near Yosemite National Park nears containment.Incident ...

Yosemite highway remains closed as fire rages

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - The main highway into Yosemite National Park remains closed as firefighters continue to battle a wildfire outside of the park.A U.S. Forest Service official sa...

Yosemite deaths: Americans may have lost respect

By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK – Just three weeks after death laid a heavy hand on the Merced River, sweeping three tourists to their deaths over Vernal Fall, life went on fo...

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