Images of Rail: Lake Tahoe's Railroads DVDs Stargazing focuses on the basics

Stargazing focuses on the basics of appreciating the dark sky

Naturalist John Muir Laws has adapted his painted-from-life flower illustrations from The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada into a lightweight yet durable guidebook to the area's florae

Buckskin Frank Leslie

this comprehensive companion includes guides to 35 dark-sky sites and national parks

deep snows--forced its founding fathers

Images of Rail: Lake Tahoe's Railroads DVDs Stargazing focuses on the basicsLake Tahoe is the majestic mountain lake that spans the boundary line of California and Nevada. The lake's clarity and scenic beauty are legendary. In the 1870s, the Nevada Comstock Lode created an insatiable appetite for Lake Tahoe's virgin pine forests. The timbers would shore up underground mining and build communities approaching 40,000 inhabitants. Railroads on three shores delivered the logs lakeside, where they were towed by steam powered tugs