animals

The Summer Keynote Speaker Series at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center begins the first week of July and continues every Thursday evening through August at the Lake of the Sky Amphitheater. The series kicks off on Thursday, July 5, 2012, with "Wild Things" featuring Sierra Nevada native animals live on stage at 7 p.m.

A leading Lake Tahoe scientist who has studied invasive species and limnology for 20 years, said issuing permits for commercial harvesting of crayfish at Lake Tahoe will help improve clarity at the pristine lake, as well as take away a food source for other invasive species that threaten clarity and ecosystems.

The community is invited to to attend the Endangered Species of the Lake Tahoe Area Workshop during the Tahoe Science Conference that is scheduled for Tuesday, May 22, from 8 to 10 a.m. Space is limited and an RSVP is requested at creativerno@charter.net to reserve your seat.
This workshop is designed to involve the participants in evaluating printed information and presenting their ideas.

The State Water Resources Control Board is confronting a major controversy Tuesday: whether to allow pesticide use in Lake Tahoe. Some believe it will save the lake from being choked to death by invasive species, while others say it could destroy an environmental treasure.
Lake Tahoe supports a $5 billion economy and a stunning natural eco-system. But all the beauty is facing a growing underwater threat — plants and animals that are not supposed to be there.

Disneynature's fourth release, shot in the Tai forest of Africa's Ivory Coast, melts hearts with its stunning chimpanzee footage, but sours audience humor with its dumbed-down narration. Directo...

A 16-acre parcel near where Highways 89 and 50 meet is being scoped as a possible and permanent relocation site for Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care.
The property, known as Echo Creek Ranch, sits in an estate and trust by the late Alex Graf and once had a value of about $7 million during the height of the real estate boom. 

Is the only thing we care about short-term gain? What about the future of this planet and the animals who are only trying to live in a world we are doing our best to destroy ... we need to think be...

Three bear cubs, nursed back to health by Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care, Inc., were released into the wild this week.
The bears, each close to a year old, were brought to the South Lake Tahoe facility last summer where they were found malnourished and without mothers.
The California Department of Fish and Game released one of the cubs, a female, north of Truckee on Tuesday and two were taken to Alpine County on Wednesday. The cubs were put into winter dens made by Fish and Game biologists.

There has to be a way to have this event without disturbing entire areas of the town.This is a 24-hour resort. People need to sleep at all hours of the day.Babies and animals were affected terribly...

Nevada’s second bear-hunting season would be shorter and no hunting allowed within the Lake Tahoe Basin under new regulations proposed by Nevada wildlife officials.
The proposal will be considered early next month in Las Vegas as the Nevada Wildlife Commission reviews hunting season regulations proposed for black bears and all other big-game animals. Go here for the Reno Gazette-Journal story by Jeff DeLong.

From Harvard Professor B.F. Skinner's accidental pigeon experiment grew a still-evolving training method that has proven effective for multiple species, as well as human athletes, students and disa...

He rescued a pigeon that flew into an office window, calmed it down and then took it to Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care. Larry is the winner of a 45-minute Emotional ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../raok-emotion...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Following the life-saving care two beloved family pets received about a year ago, Sierra Veterinary Hospital has set up a fund to help save other animals whose owners ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) - A Reno man who killed the first black bear during Nevada's inaugural hunt for the animals has been accused of using apples and bacon grease as bait.Washoe County deputy district a...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Everywhere we look we can see the beginning signs of the holidays - frozen turkeys wait to be warmed up in the oven and stuffed animals and dolls search for that special ...

A New Hope Animal Foundation is offering half off the cost of adoptions for all animals at the Placer County animal shelters in Auburn and in Tahoe Vista from ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../animal-adopt...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark - from the melo...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The Lake Tahoe Humane Society and S.P.C.A. is presenting a week long Art and Animals workshop Aug. 15 - 19.Designed for youth ages 11 to 13, the class is an introduction ...