Outdoors

State and federal public land management agencies have elevated Nevada’s fire restrictions, prohibiting all open flame campfires.

This week the President signed into law the Great American Outdoors Act, a bill Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen helped introduce earlier this year.

Visitor services and interpretive programs at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center in South Lake Tahoe, California, have been canceled through the end of October.

The Bureau of Land Management has issued a decision for the Mount Irish Cultural Resource Protection and Visitor Improvements Project to build four primitive campsites.

Th Fourth of July weekend will look a little different in Lake Tahoe this year thanks to restrictions and cancellations due to COVID-19.

The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team encourages area residents and visitors to “Fight fire with a plan” during July’s Lake Tahoe Wildfire Awareness Month.

The BLM Humboldt River Field Office (HRFO) will restore access to the Canyon Recreation Area (WCRA) beginning Tuesday, June 30.

The Tahoe Rim Trail Association, which closed its office in March, is back working on the 165-mile loop for the first time since COVID-19 shutdowns.

State and federal agencies are urging visitors recreating on Nevada’s public lands to do so safely and follow regulations as we head into the high use summer season.

Agencies and organizations throughout Nevada and California are working to prepare and educate the public for the upcoming fire season.