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Forest Supervisor Kathy Hardy announced fire restrictions go into effect in the western half of Eldorado National Forest beginning June 17, a prepared statement from national forest public affairs officer Frank Mosbacher stated. “Campfires and charcoal barbeques will be restricted to designated recreation sites and other fire-related activities will be prohibited until the end of [...]
Camino — Many local residents are unaware that timber harvesting is still conducted on private lands throughout the foothill and mountain communities of Amador and El Dorado Counties, or that there are Forest Practice Rules and Regulations designed to protect many of the other natural resources found in the watersheds where timber harvesting occurs. These [...]
On June 7, Lt. Stacey Lafave of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife was on patrol when he noticed a vehicle pulled off the shoulder of the road near Miess Cabin Road and Forest Service Road 10N46 in the Eldorado National Forest. Investigating on foot, Lafave walked down to the North Fork of the [...]
The outdoor recreation season and the fire season in the Eldorado National Forest got into full swing on Memorial Day weekend. Most of the popular recreation sites and boat ramps were busy with visitors, notes a prepared statement from forest Public Affairs Officer Frank Mosbacher. Mosbacher added the advisory that the agency and its staff will [...]
With one of the driest winters on record, vegetation is drying earlier and the fire danger is rising. Beginning on June 17, Cal Fire’s Amador-El Dorado-Sacramento Unit will suspend dooryard burning permits and the U.S. Forest Service will begin fire restrictions in portions of Eldorado National Forest. Fire restrictions in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management [...]
Since we live in an area that has more trails than one can possibly count, you may wonder what is needed to introduce a young child to the joys of hiking. When your little one is capable of walking around most of the day, without having to be carried too much, it’s probably time. There [...]
Confusion over organizations with similar names and similar interests has led to misunderstanding of El Dorado County District 2 Supervisor Ray Nutting’s relationship with various councils and special districts, some of which administer grant funds alleged to have benefited him and some of which do not. Chuck Mitchell, president of the El Dorado Resource Conservation [...]
El Dorado County supervisors rushed to meet a June 10 deadline for requesting a public hearing regarding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposal to list the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog and a portion of the population of mountain yellow-legged frogs as endangered species. The Yosemite toad is also under consideration as a threatened species [...]
Tahoe South, “America’s Best Lake,” (USA Today, Aug. 2012) is experiencing a renaissance this summer as entrepreneurs and investors are pumping millions into improvements and new construction. From total reconstruction of lodging properties — Landing Resort & Spa, Basecamp Hotel — to planned construction on The Chateau, confidence in the Tahoe market is rebounding with [...]
New historical markers on the Carson River Emigrant Trail will be dedicated July 9 at Caples Lake. On April 22, 2005, $8,000 was appropriated by the board of California-Nevada (CA-NV) Chapter of the Oregon California Trails Association (OCTA) to install six interpretive markers at important locations in the Carson Pass and Hope Valley areas, along [...]
For those who want to get a headstart on meeting up with the 64th annual Highway 50 Wagon Train, the public is invited to a barbecue and campfire activities on Thursday, June 6 when the train camps at Fresh Pond. Located at 7720 Highway 50, below Kyburz and above Pollock Pines, Fresh Pond was one [...]
Until recently, small hydroelectric projects were too expensive and permits and licensing too time-consuming for water districts to consider. Now, a number of factors are coalescing to improve the desirability of adding small hydro projects to their district operations. On March 22 the Technical Advisory Committee of the Mountain Counties Water Resources District held a [...]
A coalition of five organizations is holding a meeting June 1 in Auburn to discuss the future of fourteen California counties. Unless action is taken now, the future of these counties will be radically changed. In a 2011 settlement agreement, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to evaluate a certain number per year of [...]
Under threat of a lawsuit the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service reached an agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity April 24 to propose the Sierra yellow-legged and Yosemite toad for Endangered Species Act listing. Also proposed is protecting more than 2 million acres of habitat in the Sierra Nevada. May 13 Tony Valdes, forest [...]
On a bright Saturday morning during the sesquicentennial year of the nation’s Civil War, Samuel E. Kyburz, a veteran of that war, received a proper military memorial service in the Clarksville Cemetery located on the rocky hill immediately east of El Dorado Hills Town Center, where records show he was laid to rest in 1917 without military ceremony or protocol.
The Clarksville Region Historical Society remedied that situation on May 11, 2013, 96 years late, with help from …
Due to increased plague activity in the Tahoe Basin area last fall, El Dorado County health officials advise caution this summer. The California Department of Public Health routinely monitors rodent populations for plague activity in California. Last September and October, a surveillance effort identified three chipmunks as positive for plague in the South Lake Tahoe [...]
EDITOR: On April 9, 2013 three friends joined me riding our Quads in the National Forest when our adventure suddenly turned into a rescue. One of our riders slipped off the trail and down a 70-foot cliff resulting in numbness to his fingers and legs. I carry a SPOT (Satellite Personal Tracker) and as soon [...]
The Amador El Dorado Forest Forum recognized three of its members posthumously at the Spring Honors Dinner held at the Institute of Forest Genetics in Placerville on April 17. Robert E. “Bob” Flynn, 1919-2011, U.S. Forest Service 1936-1975 Bob Flynn, born in Georgetown, went to work for the Forest Service before he got out of [...]
An accident left one man seriously injured and in need of rescue in the Eldorado National Forest on April 9. Sam White, Frank Showers and two other elderly gentlemen were riding quads, having gone about 17 miles into the forest by lunchtime. Around 3 p.m., disaster struck. They were riding along when “we came upon [...]
El Dorado Hills is the largest foothill community along the Highway 50 corridor, and the only one without local fixed-route bus service. Would affluent El Dorado Hills residents use local bus service if it were available? A recent study suggests that a flexible, well-planned route in the north-south core of El Dorado Hills on weekdays [...]