The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of California’s water supply, began the year in good ...

Tom Stephenson, who leads the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program, said the number of ewes, or female sheep, counted this summer is about the same as the previous summer. Plus ...

Heavy snow and multiple spinouts Thursday morning had officials holding all traffic on Interstate 80 at the California and ...

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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 ...

The Sierra Nevada wring moisture from winter storms that develop ... precipitation arrives. In southern Nevada, the summer is relatively wet, but in northern Nevada, the summer is usually quite dry.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conclusive evidence of foundering, however, has been hard to come by. Peering deep under California's Sierra Nevada, Vera Schulte-Pelkum and Deborah Kilb discovered new evidence of lithospheric ...

The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly ... the state’s cities and farms can expect each spring and summer into rivers and reservoirs. Snow fell steadily at Phillips Station ...