Outdoors

A beautiful spring walk on the southern side of Washoe Lake.

Our cold winter created a wonderful spring bounty. Gardening centers me bringing calm to a busy life. It's as if every bulb, every flower, every vegetable are tonics for my soul.

Individuals, businesses, organizations, local, state and federal agencies are encouraged to participate in Bike to Work Week. Gather a team to bike to work each day. Winner of the Bike to Work Week Challenge gets a plaque with their name on it for the entire year. Create a unique and fun name for your group and peddle away!

Every few years I have certified arborists prune our trees. They always chip anything smaller than what we can use for firewood, generating a mountain of wood chips for me. I use wood chips throughout our landscaped acre, everywhere there isn’t lawn.

Just happened to be at the right place at the right time.

Muscle Powered is hosting a series of events during the Month of May in honor of May Bike Month! This month encourages everyone to get on their bikes and ride. To sign-up and learn more about each event, go to our calendar at www.musclepowered.org/calendar.

775 Offroad & Recovery, Northern Nevada Offroad Rescue is hosting a 4x4 only Show-N-Shine this Saturday, May 6 at Fuji Park (across from the Carson City Costco). Lots of cool 4x4s, vendors, Huge Raffles, an RC track for the kids,and a Kids Learn and Win event with prizes for the kids. There will be firetrucks and Smoky Bear might make an appearance! Event is free to spectators.
Scroll and click on the flier for details. See you at the show!

On Saturday, May 6, 2023, Capitol City Gun Club in Carson City, NV will host a Super Sporting Clays Shoot with a special format and discounted target fees from 9:00am to 4:30pm. The Club is located at 3590 Arrowhead Drive. For additional information call (775) 882-9904. All are welcome!

Carson Fly Fishing Club's Monthly Meeting is Tuesday, May 9, 7 p.m. in the Ormsby Room of the Carson City Sheriff's Office, 911 East Musser Street.

Enjoy some neighborhood cheer. I love gardening. By far, my favorite garden is in Spring. What started as a few tulips six years ago, has grown to blooms garden wide.

Spring flowers don't last long, however, they bring such joy after our long winters — especially this year's.

I invest in things that bring a smile to my face — that keep me focusing on the positive— on joy — on things I can share with others. A simple flower's bloom brings me back to feeling hope and happiness.

Hello fellow anglers. Opening day for California waters arrived Saturday, April 29. As rivers, streams and lakes in California are opened for fishing, many of them will convert from catch and release with artificial lures or flies to catch and keep and allow anglers to use baiting methods.

All your favorite plants for this year's garden and beautification are now available for order on-line via The Greenhouse Project's Shopify, ahead of the 14th annual Mother's Day Plant Sale, taking place Saturday, May 13 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Green Central, located on Carson High School's campus in Carson City.

The Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team will continue prescribed fire operations this week at Lake Tahoe. Conditions and weather permitting, Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District and the USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit are scheduled to burn piles along the East Shore beginning Monday, April 24, 2023.

This is the time of year where we notice damage to landscape plants and lawns. We may immediately jump to the conclusion that a pest caused the problem. Amazingly, most problems are not caused by an insect or critter.

To reduce hazardous fuels on National Forest System and city-owned lands, sheep will be released on Friday, April 21, 2023, in the West Carson Fuels Project area located on the west side of Carson City. These sheep will consume cheatgrass and other non-native vegetation on Carson City Open Space and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest’s Carson Ranger District.

A Carson Now reader submitted these photos of a large road fissure south of Topaz Lake.

Due to the crack, traffic is being stopped in both directions and has switched to one-way to avoid damaging the road further.

University of Nevada, Reno Extension is offering free online courses this May to teach gardening basics. Extension's Grow Your Own, Nevada! Program will livestream eight classes via Zoom to help Nevadans who want to get on a path to more sustainable, local and healthy living by growing and preserving more of their own food.

Oranges and Tangerine colors fill the Carson skies this morning

A lone Coyote stopped long enough for a portrait session at Silver Saddle Ranch yesterday morning.

If conditions remain favorable, the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team will resume prescribed fire operations this week at Lake Tahoe. The Nevada Division of Forestry and the USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit are scheduled to burn hand piles on the East Shore beginning Tuesday, April 11.

Every so often we have a wet year with heavy snow that seems to solve all our water challenges. However, the overall trend is always toward aridity. Even after this amazingly wet winter, water efficiency and conservation should still be the norm going forward. In light of that, some people consider replacing living lawns with artificial turf. What are the advantages and disadvantages?

On Sunday, April 16, 2023, Capitol City Gun Club in Carson City, will host a Fun Shoot from 9:00am to 4:30pm. Target fees will be discounted all day. Everyone is invited to come! The Club is located at 3590 Arrowhead Drive. For additional information, visit: https://www.capitolcitygunclub.org/ or call (775) 882-9904.

Every month, the Carson City Park Rangers offer various Ranger-Led programs that include educational opportunities, historical fun, events and exciting adventures.

I'm so excited I can finally see the lawn after months of snow; but yikes! Throughout the lawn are dozens of brown grass trails making it look as if it is covered with dirt-colored varicose veins.

Greenhouse Garden Center will host a fruit tree seminar on Saturday, April 8 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. hosted by owner David Ruf.

Are you interested in growing your own food right in your backyard, but not sure where to start? The fruit tree seminar will be able to answer all your questions regarding getting started in fruit trees!

With this year boasting the most snow water equivalent in decades, it lends to the question, how will this affect the Carson River?

The Carson City Fire Department would like to announce the start of the Spring 2023 Open Burn, with burning allowed from Friday, March 24 through May 23, dependent upon permit status and daily weather conditions.

Earlier this month I wrote about planting cool season crops. In a normal year digging and preparing garden soil now would be appropriate. However, this year has been excessively wet with snow melt and rain and soil is still too soggy to work. Why is digging a saturated soil a bad idea?

A Carson Now reader sent in this great photo of a bald eagle spotted Wednesday within the Anderson Ranch area of Kings Canyon in Carson City.

It is not advisable to off-road until trail conditions improve, says 775 Offroad and Recovery, a volunteer Northern Nevada organization that removes struck and stranded vehicles from public lands.

The group noted that especially now with the rain and added snow melt that off-road trails have become saturated with mud.