El Dorado County Environment Articles

In spite of legal pushback on changes to snowmobile access, national forest districts in the Tahoe Sierra are moving forward with updated over-snow vehicle (OSV) management plans this year. The Tahoe Sierra encompasses portions of six Forest Service Districts – …

California’s outdated water rights laws have failed to account for the effects of climate change, says a new expert report, which makes some strong recommendations.

Thousands of miles of railroad track, including some in Santa Cruz County, now sit idle. The fate of those largely abandoned tracks has become a burning controversy.

Keep Truckee Green has added a food compost bin at Mountain Hardware on Donner Pass Road for food scraps only. The food compost bin is open year-round in the rear parking lot off Forest Lane. Bins are also available year-round …

The climate change era has created a whole new set of terms for a wide variety of storms and other weather phenomena. Here are some of the most important.

California has a new law to ban leaf blowers, which both annoy neighbors and pollute the air. Here’s why the law might not do enough, explained.

Since Gold Rush Days, water has been the driving force in El Dorado County life. Here’s how the water system works, and how it has developed over the years.

The pesky mosquito can be deadly as well as annoying. Here’s how local governments in California have been waging war on mosquitoes for more than a century.

LA Times staff writer Louis Sahagun reports from the front lines of the battle to preserve California’s most endangered species.

Comstock’s reporter Jennifer Junghans learns about some innovative solutions to the problem of ice on winter roads.

El Dorado County’s 193,000 residents rely on 10 different districts to protect them from fire, and some of those districts are dangerously short on cash.

What do resource conservation districts protect? Pretty much everything that’s worth saving.

Why is California still experiencing offshore oil spills half-a-century after the catastrophic Santa Barbara disaster? The answer is found in the state’s longtime, close relationship with the oil business.

In a series of articles, the Los Angeles Times explores the most literal result of global warming: extreme heat.

Here’s why cargo ship traffic has been dangerously heavy at California’s ports in 2021, and how the backup may have caused a disaster.

The state’s largest power utility faced new criminal charges Sept. 24, but PG&E has a long and disturbing history of causing wildfires. Why? And how can the company change?

Despite a history of wildfires in the area, the state wants to build nearly 150 new campsites in Auburn State Recreation Area in El Dorado and Placer counties.

Residential wells are drying up in the state’s main agricultural region at the same time that agricultural businesses consume almost 90 percent of the water there.

Even as California’s wildfires grow more intense seemingly every year, insurers are cancelling policies for homeowners in the path of the fires.

Tahoe Weekly writes about the region’s go-to source for esoteric natural history information.