Outdoors

If you are unable to ride a traditional two-wheeled mountain bike because of an injury or disability, perhaps a three-wheeled adaptive mountain bike is the ticket to get you out on the trails!

Recently we took a trip to Flathead Lake, Montana to visit friends. While there, we experienced an influx of large (almost 3/4-inch) nasty-looking bugs that descended upon us, literally, every afternoon. There were dozens on the deck, the railings, and any other surface available.

The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team fall prescribed fire program may begin as early as Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022. Conditions and weather permitting, California State Parks is scheduled to conduct understory burning on approximately 21 acres in Sugar Pine Point State Park on Lake Tahoe’s West Shore.

Carolynn Chamlee of Silver Springs, a member of Battle Born Stockton Well Grange #29 in Northern Lyon County, has been selected as a participant in this year’s National Grange Communication Fellows Program during the 156th Annual Session of the National Grange in Sparks, Nev. this November.

Tucked between the buzz of summer and the cold of winter, we get a short window of — let’s face it — the best season of the year. Fall in Carson City is six to eight weeks of weather that can make a person giddy. The morning chill makes that first cup of coffee extra good for the soul and you can still catch those warm rays of sunshine by the afternoon. The local trails are just begging to be hiked, and the family activities are endless.

A spirited collection of themed steam train rides on the Virginia Truckee Railroad returns to the Virginia City Comstock this fall.

Carson Now reader Janis Brandenburg Lee caught a photo of this stunning sunset from Indian Hills Monday evening.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — For the 25th consecutive year, volunteers laced up their boots, pulled on their gloves, and went to work healing Tahoe’s beautiful but sensitive environment for Tahoe Forest Stewardship Days, the region’s longest-running ecosystem restoration event.

Carson Now reader Rachel R reports having a late night visitor off of Kings Canyon near Long Ranch Park in Carson City overnight as seen in this photo. The bear seems to have visited their neighbor as part of their adjoining fence, which was knocked down.

Taken Monday morning.

On Friday night I walked outside to let the dog out and when I looked up I was greeted by a great horned owl (Bubo virginianus). It was very curious and seemed to have no fear at all. It decided to hang out in the trees nearby for a while. Then on Sunday I went for a bike ride and saw another one, possibly the same one, only a couple blocks away.

A mother bear and 3 cubs take a sidewalk stroll Sunday morning, 6:25 a.m. in the Kings Canyon Road area of Carson City. The images were captured on StealthCam by Carson Now Reader Ray Frederick.

The Nevada Department of Agriculture, alongside the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Foundation, is seeking participants for the Women’s Farm2Food Accelerator program, starting in November of this year.

The best Border Collies in North America will be coming to Douglas County this Tuesday through Sunday, Sept. 20-25 to compete in the 2022 National Sheepdog Finals. These top dogs will be arriving in Nevada from all over the United States and Canada to battle for the coveted title of National Sheepdog Champion.

Fall arrives this week and I’m ready to fertilize the lawn. I forgot last year and noticed there were many more weeds such as clover and black medic infesting the lawn.

CARSON CITY — Nevada residents and visitors are invited to celebrate Nevada Public Lands Day on Saturday, Sept. 24 with a “fee-free” day at Nevada’s State Parks. Park fees, including entrance, camping (Saturday night) and boating, where applicable, will be waived at state parks throughout the Silver State.

All of your hard work has paid off. You now have ripe tomatoes and you are thrilled. While some tomatoes are perfect, there are others with cracks, brown bottoms and tough skin. Why?

Hello fellow anglers. I usually start off with, this time of year, how pleasant the weather has been and how things have cooled off. But there was no escaping the heat during the past week, no matter where you were.

The annual wild ride of the Comstock is happening this weekend in Virginia City, with the 63rd annual International Camel & Ostrich Races running Friday through Sunday.

Two crows swooped and dived bombed a great horned owl on my neighbors’s roof Friday near Carriage Square Park in Carson City.

I have never experienced 100-degree temperatures in Northern Nevada in September. When I started as a horticulturist in 1992, we told people to slowly reduce the frequency of irrigating trees and shrubs in late August, early September.

RENO — Restoration efforts in montane meadows designed to increase late-season water flows, improve water quality, diminish flood events and provide valuable habitat have been ongoing for decades in the Sierra Nevada.

You planted a variety of vegetables and were looking forward to harvesting, but veggies aren’t producing as you had hoped. You notice many quick-flying tiny white critters darting around as you work in the garden. Turning over a leaf or two you see a collection of white insects on the undersides. These are whiteflies.

This small herd of deer made for a necessary safety stop on Long Street near Mark Twain Elementary in Carson City at around 6:45 a.m. Friday morning. The mom appears to be getting them together to make a safe crossing.

As water continues to be a scarce resource and concerns about food security grow, agricultural producers need to make sure they are maintaining healthy soil in order to maximize production of quality crops.

Hello fellow anglers. I have some exciting news to share with everyone. The last couple of years have been tough on us all. Many events have had to be canceled due to Covid. The saddest of all have been the loss of our local kids fishing derbies.

With the climate becoming hotter and drier, the consequences are taking a toll on the region's ecosystem. If you've been at the beaches of Lake Tahoe recently, you'll notice something that isn't normal — algae, and lots of it. Experts are warning residents and visitors to be on the lookout for harmful algal blooms (HABs) in bodies of water in the greater Tahoe area.

No area is in the danger zone at this time, but people and dogs using the following areas should take caution:

In an effort to support Nevada agriculture and improve food security for Nevadans in need, the Home Feeds Nevada Agriculture Food Purchase program was established through Senate Bill 370 and passed during the 81st Legislative Session. Through this program, the Nevada Department of Agriculture will purchase foods that are grown, produced or processed in Nevada and distribute them through designated food banks to populations in need.

Learn more about the geology of United States national parks, including Great Basin National Park here in Nevada, through a Geology of National Parks class this fall at Western Nevada College.

Returning to Carson City this weekend, dozens of dirt bikes will roar and race at the Fuji Park Flat Track dirt bike races this Friday and Saturday, August 26-27 at Fuji Park.