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Problematic plastic pollution at Lake Tahoe
While it might not be obvious, chances are you are swimming with microplastics when you are in Lake Tahoe. Swallow a gulp of lake water? Yep, you may have just ingested particles of plastic. Plastics are in the sand you are walking and sitting on as well. Tahoe...
Problematic plastic pollution at Lake Tahoe
While it might not be obvious, chances are you are swimming with microplastics when you are in Lake Tahoe. Swallow a gulp of lake water? Yep, you may have just ingested particles of plastic. Plastics are in the sand you are walking and sitting on as well. Tahoe...
Book Review: Maybe is should be the ‘criminal injustice’ system
Anthony Ray Hinton wasn’t a name I knew before reading his story that he wrote with Lara Love Hardin: The Sun Does Rise: How I Found Life , Freedom and Justice (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018). He was arrested in 1985, sent to death row for murder, then released in 2015...
Bidwell Park not without its controversies
The crown jewel of Chico is easily Bidwell Park. It was established in 1905. Since then the park has grown to 3,670 acres; and is about 11 miles long. The three sections—lower, middle, upper—are unique in their own right, with the former more urban, upper more rugged...
Tennis has a ways to go to be representative
Representation matters. Seeing people who look like you matters. It’s hard to grow up dreaming you want do something when you don’t see other people like you doing it. Whatever it is. That’ why this year’s U.S. Open tennis tournament that ended last Sunday was...
Lassen Park hits the boiling point and then some
Hot water is one thing Lassen Volcanic National Park is well known for. Not water to soak in, but water to appreciate from a bit of distance. It’s scalding hot. The visitors center has a wealth of information about all the bubbling, boiling and gurgling going on. “As...
Short hike brings tremendous beauty near Lassen Park
I can tell you about hiking to Blue Lake, but I can’t tell you exactly how to get there. The latter is partly because I wasn’t driving, I’d never been there and road signs seemed to be non-existent. Good thing Sally was driving and had been there several times....
A chaotic world remains 25 years after 9-11
A generation is living in a world where they don’t know anything but life after Sept. 11, 2001. I don't know if the world was really better then or if it’s through rose-colored glasses that I see my younger self in a world that didn’t seem so rife with division. I...
A sadder world without Parton and Steinem
Certain deaths have a way of rocking one’s world. I didn’t know Dolly Parton or Gloria Steinem. Never met them. Was never in the same room with either one. Yet, now that they are gone it feels like they were part of my life in ways I had not previously acknowledged....
Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit’s beginnings
Two states, five counties, one city. Thousands of residents. Millions of visitors. It’s the reality the Lake Tahoe Basin has been working under for decades. While today the collective burdens foster a sense of collaborative stewardship, 30 years ago this was a recipe...
Book Review: Novel intertwines family love stories
Emotional roller coasters could be the definition of most love stories. In The Things We Leave Unfinished (Entangled Publishing, 2021) author Rebecca Yarros weaves the tale of two love stories into one book. Sometimes you just need a read that keeps your attention,...
Very interesting. I need to go to Lassen NP again; it's been so long! (HINT :) )
Pretty cool. I have wanted to visit some places at Lassen NP and maybe hike to the top.
Sorry I missed that lecture at the History Museum it sounds like it was very interesting. Thanks for the brief…
Amen!!