Heavy snow brings chain controls to Sierra highways as Winter Storm Warning is in effect
Heavy snow and multiple spinouts Thursday morning had officials holding all traffic on Interstate 80 at the California and ...
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Sierra Nevada snowpack declines after very dry January — but promising storms are arriving to replenish it
The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of California’s water supply, began the year in good ...
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Sierra Nevada National Park
The nearby Sierra Nevada Ski Resort, Europe's southernmost ski resort, offers more than 68 miles of slopes with chair lifts and gondolas throughout. During the summer, lifts transport visitors to ...
Northern California Sierra travelers welcome snow after practically dry January
Snow storms caused drivers to be extra cautious traveling I-80 on Tuesday with the higher elevations in the Sierra getting a ...
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Tunneling in the Sierra Nevada
The grand engineering feat of the Sierra Nevada would have to wait until the following year. Summer 1866 saw construction of the Grizzly Hill and Emigrant Gap Tunnels (Tunnels No. 1 and 2 ...
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NATURAL HISTORY
MIGRATION: Sierra Nevada red foxes are seasonal elevational migrants, moving from alpine and subalpine habitats in summer down to mid-elevation habitats in winter. BREEDING: Sierra Nevada red fox ...
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Sierra Nevada Red Fox Population Gains Endangered Species Act Protection
Active mostly at night, Sierra Nevada red foxes spend winters in dens in earthen cavities in mature forest. They summer in high meadows, fell fields, talus slopes and shrub lands. They are adapted to ...