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The annual shrinking of Lake Oroville is officially underway, and it just claimed its first boat ramp casualties of the season. State Parks closed the upper ramp at the Loafer Creek boat launch as water levels continue their summer slide, shifting launches to the lower stage two ramp. The Enterprise ramp shut down earlier this … The post Lake Oroville Has Dropped 35 Percent Since May. Here’s What…
Some of Northern California’s wildest backcountry could soon be open to chainsaws and bulldozers. The U.S. Forest Service formally proposed scrapping the Roadless Rule this week, a 2001 regulation that has kept road building and commercial logging out of nearly 45 million acres of national forest for a quarter century. What’s at stake in California? … The post The Feds Want to Scrap the Roadless…
Lake Tahoe’s famous blue owes a debt to a soggy stretch of grass most visitors drive right past. The Upper Truckee Marsh, tucked between the Tahoe Keys and Regan Beach in South Lake Tahoe, is the largest remaining wetland in the Tahoe Basin, and it functions as the lake’s kidneys. The Upper Truckee River, the … The post This Soggy Patch of Grass is Quietly Keeping Lake Tahoe Blue appeared first on…
Whiskeytown’s tech upgrade just came into sharper focus. The recreation area is putting its new $405,000 grant toward digital rangers, automated sensors, and possibly the end of the fee envelope as we know it. The funding come from the National Park Foundation, which Whiskeytown will spend over the next two to three years as one … The post Whiskeytown’s $405,000 Tech Grant Now Includes Digital…
About half the wildfires that start in California are now found by a machine before a single person picks up a phone. That statistic comes from Cal Fire’s own control rooms, where a network of more than 1,200 artificial intelligence enabled cameras called ALERTCalifornia scans the horizon for smoke around the clock. The system works … The post California Now Has Satellites Watching for Wildfires…
The last time most of NorCal saw Ryder Williams, he was disappearing under crashing waves at Seabright State Beach with an iron grip on a drowning boy. On Monday, the 16-year-old lifeguard was sitting in the Oval Office. President Trump hosted Williams and 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai, the boy he pulled from the surf, at the … The post The Teen Lifeguard From That Viral Santa Cruz Rescue Just Went to…
Most people experience Emerald Bay from a packed overlook on Highway 89, snapping the same photo as everyone else before circling for parking. A lucky few get to wake up inside it. Tucked on the bay’s north shore at the site of the old Emerald Bay Resort, the boat-in campground offers 20 lakefront tent sites … The post Lake Tahoe’s Boat-In Campground Puts You in Emerald Bay After the Crowds Leave…
Every conversation about NorCal weather eventually lands on the same question these days: how big is this El Nino going to get? The latest answer from the world’s top forecasting model is a doozy. Climate scientist Daniel Swain shared new projections from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts describing a genuinely extraordinary to extreme … The post A Monster El Nino Could Be One…
Mountain lions have a public relations problem in Northern California. Between livestock conflicts and the occasional too-close encounter, the big cats mostly make headlines for the wrong reasons. New research suggests they deserve credit for something unexpected: safer highways. Scientific American reported on a study, published August 5 in the journal Current Biology, showing that … The post A…
The Feather River Canyon is about to get loud. PG&E will crank up water releases on the North Fork Feather River this weekend, transforming a normally mellow stretch into serious whitewater. Higher flows will hit the Rock Creek Reach, an 8.3-mile section of river in the Plumas National Forest between Rock Creek Dam and the … The post PG&E Is About to Crank Up the North Fork Feather River for…
