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  • 'Sticking around' for an alpine valley

    Attilio Genasci has devoted himself to preserving land in Sierra Valley, Calif., where he has lived and farmed for 96 years

    by Jane Braxton Little, Nov 28, 2005
  • An underwater forest reveals the story of a historic megadrought

    An underwater forest reveals the story of a historic megadrought

    Scientists find a climatic archive at the bottom of an alpine lake in California's Sierra Nevada.

    by Brendon Bosworth, Dec 25, 2012
  • Climate change turns an already troubled ski industry on its head

    Climate change turns an already troubled ski industry on its head

    California's Mammoth Mountain provides a case study on the uncertainty of the ski business, and how global warming threatens to make it even more unpredictable. Subscribers only

    by Greg Hanscom, Mar 04, 2013

  • Follow-up

    Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes now a national park; health screening program for former nuclear workers to expire; Forest Service didn’t break any laws with its Sierra Nevada PR campaign; rocket-burning begins at Oregon’s Umatilla Chemical Depot

    by Laura Paskus, Oct 11, 2004

  • High Country

    Willard Wyman’s novel High Country tells the story of a Depression-era boy who is wounded in World War II but finds healing in the Sierra Nevada

    by Staff, Aug 08, 2005

  • Into thin air?

    Global warming spurs calls for new dams in the West – but where will the water come from to fill them?

    by Matt Jenkins, Apr 30, 2007

  • Persistence frees the Mokelumne: River advocate Pete Bell

    Former rock-n-roll drummer Pete Bell is dedicated to keeping California’s Mokelumne River as free-flowing as possible

    by Tim Holt, Mar 15, 2004
  • Rethinking national parks and wilderness

    Rethinking national parks and wilderness

    William Tweed takes a loving but critical look at the National Park Service in Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future of National Parks.

    by Laura A. Watt, Jan 24, 2011

  • Saving the Sierra, tale by tale

    Independent radio producers Catherine Stifter and jesikah maria ross are trying to help the Sierra Nevada by preserving the stories of the people who live there

    by Jane Braxton Little, May 14, 2007
  • The collected Sierra Nevada

    The collected Sierra Nevada

    Meteorologist Hal Klieforth has collected a lifetime of knowledge – and a museum’s worth of artifacts – from years spent exploring the Sierra Nevada.

    by Terray Sylvester , Apr 28, 2009
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