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• Sequoia smog damaging pines, redwood seedlings

  views of California's geologic grandeur often are muddled by a disorienting gray soup of smog.Ozone levels in the Sierra Nevada park are comparable to those in Los Angeles . The pollution comes from the San Joaquin Valley, one of the worst air basins in the   Read more »

• For profit space race gets crowded

  will carry astronauts and cargo with three test launches aimed for 2015 and 2016, the last one with a crew on board. The Sierra Nevada Corp. of Sparks, Nev., with nearly $106 million from NASA, is building a mini-shuttle crew vehicle called Dream Chaser with   Read more »

• Ooh, aah: Take in Yosemite views _ by computer.

  Yosemite Conservancy, it's one of four Web feeds available at the park. Other views are Half Dome, El Capitan and the Sierra Nevada mountain range.Yosemite joins a smattering of parks across the nation using technology to connect America's natural wonders   Read more »

• Sierra storms produce season's top ski conditions

  -- It may be later than they wanted, but Sierra Nevada resort operators are rejoicing after a string of storms produced the season's best skiing conditions.The Boreal and Soda Springs resorts north of Lake Tahoe report receiving 6 to 8 feet from storms over   Read more »

• US still interested in Brazilian military aircraft

  and its American partner, claiming its own AT-6 aircraft was wrongly excluded from the selection process. Nevada -based Sierra Nevada Corp. was given the contract in December and was to work with Embraer, which makes the Super Tucano.The contract for 20 of   Read more »

Around the web

• Retirees make selves at home in Gardnerville, Nev.

  for cash and live off the land." The land in the Carson Valley is high desert, 4,750 feet, along the eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada. It gets hot in the summer but nowhere near as hot as San Jose. In the winter, you can see the snowy runs at Heavenly 1:53 PM from San Francisco Chronicle Read more »

• University of Nevada, Reno scientists confirm Sierra Nevada 200-year megadroughts

  Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and their partners at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego in a recent paper, a culmination of a comprehensive high-tech assessment of Fallen Leaf Lake -- a small moraine-bound lake at the south end 12:18 PM from Generef.com Read more »

• Nasa completes Dream Chaser flight test milestone

  Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems' Dream Chaser flight vehicle is lifted by an Erickson Air-Crane helicopter near the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Jefferson County, Colo., on May 29, during a captive-carry test. Image credit: Sierra Nevada Corporation 7:17 AM from PhysOrg.com Read more »

• Blog: Diamond Pet Foods, Costco sued over dog food after infant sickened

  their...- 11:55 am Faces from the Reno Philharmonic's Motown Magic event on May 19 at the Pioneer Center in Reno.- 8:12 am The Sierra Nevada Children's Choir for grades 1-12 is auditioning new singers for the 2012-13...- 12:36 am According to a lawsuit filed 5/31/12 from Reno Gazette-Journal Read more »

• Pint-sized Pour: Ruthless Rye IPA

  Slammin’ stalks: Judging by the label for Sierra Nevada’s Ruthless Rye IPA, the brewery isn’t kidding. What initially appears to be an idyllic scene of rustic peace on closer examination resembles a poster for a slasher film. That hooded woman raising a flail? 5/31/12 from San Diego Union-Tribune Read more »