Tag Archives: Nevada

Auburn Fire Incident Information: Last Updated: September 17, 2016 9:14 pm Date/Time Started: September 17,2016 1:40 pm Administrative Unit: CAL FIRE Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit / Grass Valley Fire Department County: Nevada County Location: Off Auburn Street and Whiting Street, Grass Valley Acres Burned – Containment: 30 acres – 50% contained Long/Lat: …

Phoenix Fire Incident Information: Last Updated: September 07, 2016 7:15 pm Date/Time Started: September 07,2016 3:09 pm Administrative Unit: Tahoe National Forest County: Nevada County Location: west of Fordyce Lake near Soda Springs Acres Burned – Containment: **This is NOT a CAL FIRE incident. For more information, click on the …

In another sign of the warming climate, key species of trees in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range – including lodge pole pine, red fir and western white pine – are shifting to higher elevations in search of cooler temperatures, a broad new study by state biologists has found. … Click …

off McCourtney Rd & Perimeter Rd, east of Camp Far West Reservoir Acres Burned: 30 – Containment: 100% contained 

County: Nevada County Location: In the Steep Hollow drainage west of Alta Administrative Unit: CAL FIRE Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit Acres Burned – Containment 2,303 acres – 75% contained Date Started: July 25, 2015 2:37 pm Last update: July 26, 2015 8:00 am Phone Numbers (530) 823-4083 (Fire Information)

Deputies say 59-year-old Leuth Sengsongkham is in custody after allegedly shooting his wife and another man Saturday morning. Deputies discovered the bodies in a field Saturday evening.

Yosemite National Park is excited to report the first confirmed sighting in the park of a rare Sierra Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes necator) in nearly 100 years. Park wildlife biologists had gone on a five-day backcountry trip to the far northern part of the park to check on previously …

A multiagency operation was recently concluded that returned two herds of endangered bighorn sheep to locations in Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks, Inyo National Forest, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, worked together on …