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The summer season is almost here and if you are looking to explore the great outdoors, Lake Tahoe Adventures has you covered.

It would be unreasonable to ignore the previous thousands and even millions of years during which equid ancestors played major roles in North American life, writes ecologist Craig Downer.

UPDATE 4:38PM Forward fire progress stopped on the fire east of Johnson Lane. Crews mopping up. Final size revised to under one acre. *** Firefighters are responding Tuesday afternoon to a brush fire in the Pine Nut Mountain range approximately 3 to 5 miles east of Johnson Lane.

MARKLEEVILLE, Calif. – A lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service over damage caused by the Tamarack Fire has been filed in the Eastern District of U.S. District Court of California. Attorney Bill Jeanney updated the...

UPDATE 4:25PM: Carson City Fire Department has been relieved from mutual aid and is returning to quarters, according to a Central Lyon Fire battalion chief. The fire is on BLM land. *** Central Lyon Fire responded Tuesday afternoon to the area of D-hill in Dayton for a brush fire. The fire was reported at around 3:30 p.m.

The Nevada Appeal, the Silver States oldest continuously run newspaper, first published on May 16, 1865.

A year ago today, a plume of smoke rose above the High Sierra as a single tree fire expected to burn itself out instead exploded into flame and raged down on Markleeville, eventually claiming 68,696...

Wildlife ecologist Craig C Downer outlines how and why, on its 50th anniversary, the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act must be restored.

The so-called “Path Forward” plan presently adopted by BLM and USFS is, in my professional opinion as a wild-horse ecologist, a “wipeout” plan, in that it “wipes out” generations of natural adaptation to the particular ecosystems from which these equines came.

Already have an account? Pete Stetina is a gravel racer, and a gravel racer promoter. For his Sept. 11 race, Stetina’s Paydirt, Stetina is offering a cash payout only for the women, and has time bonuses for things like riding a mechanical bull and lassoing a keg with a tire. “Throughout my career the women raced early and got less exposure than the men, and I’ve thought about that, a lot,” Stetina said. “I can’t fix it alone, but if everyone who thought about equality in cycling did...