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...in." While he was making that speech, the Obama-controlled Pentagon quietly awarded a $345 million contract to Sierra Nevada Crop. to produce aircraft for the U.S. military. Sierra will be working with a Brazilian firm, Embraer, to produce...
...have followed the holiday weekend with two more big weekends, thanks primarily to a pair of large snow storms in the Sierra Nevada mountains. ''The good snow may help outweigh the higher gas prices,'' Tanis said. Tourism officials in towns...
...the Trail of 100 Giants, a remote spot high in the Sierra Nevada, to walk among soaring trees 2 millennia old. Clinton...in only about 70 groves on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. Clinton has used the Antiquities Act on several occasions...
...Firefighters fought to control a 37,000-acre wildland blaze that threatened a rustic mountain village in the Sierra Nevada. Flames roared Friday to within a half-mile of the 200 homes in Kennedy Meadows, about 160 miles north of Los Angeles...
...up in flames and eight homes were destroyed as a 63,270-acre wildfire continued its weeklong rampage through the Sierra Nevada. The blaze that roared through Sequoia National Forest was only 15 percent contained early Monday, and firefighters...
...Friday to take a 1-stroke lead over Jacobsen and Steve Flesch after two rounds of the tournament on the edge of the Sierra Nevada. McCarron is two shots off the lead along with Matthew Goggin and Bob May, who narrowly lost a playoff to Tiger Woods...
...compost activist, want the world to know about the joys of composted garbage. And they want El Dorado County in the Sierra Nevada 40 miles east of Sacramento to set up a pilot project to show the benefits of composting, which may cost a sixth of...
...coolworks.com . Bill Medove, recruiting manager at the Mammoth Mountain ski and golf resort in California's Sierra Nevada, said 200 of its 2,000 employees are older than 55 now, up from a handful in the early 1990s. Medove said senior...
...crisis that has engulfed California won't get much help from Mother Nature, forecasters say. They are predicting low Sierra Nevada snowpack levels throughout the summer in California, which depends heavily on runoff to power hydroelectric plants...
...which is about 100 miles south of Yosemite National Park. He flew from Los Angeles to Fresno, helicoptered to the Sierra Nevada foothills, then was driven nearly two hours up switchbacking roads to a lodge at 7,200 feet. He became the first...