Paul Rogers

5 days ago | azdailysun.com | Paul Rogers

The clarity of Lake Tahoe — the famed alpine lake on California’s border with Nevada, whose spectacular scenery draws millions of visitors a year and has spawned countless bumper stickers to “Keep Tahoe Blue” — is in the middle of a curious trend. It isn’t really getting much better. Or much worse, despite relentless efforts to improve it. And scientists aren’t sure why.

6 days ago | santacruzsentinel.com | Paul Rogers

The plan calls for shifting the visitors center, most campsites and much of the original parking out of the old growth forest core of the park. Those facilities had been nestled for nearly a century next to trees more than 250 feet tall and more than 1,500 years old. Instead they will be located in other areas of the park, and a shuttle bus will be operated on weekends from a new parking lot on the park’s eastern edge.

1 week ago | santacruzsentinel.com | Paul Rogers

Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola and his men camped along Tunitas Creek in 1769 during their expedition from Baja California to San Francisco Bay. The property was in private ownership for generations, its soaring cliffs and sand dunes hidden from motorists zooming along Highway 1 between Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Originally Published: June 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM PDT

1 week ago | mercurynews.com | Paul Rogers

A new $14.2 million public park on the San Mateo County coast along a spectacular stretch of sandy beach that was expected to open this summer has been delayed by a year. On Thursday, San Mateo County Parks Director Nicholas Calderon said that Tunitas Creek Beach, located 8 miles south of Half Moon Bay, will open instead in the summer of 2026, due to the need to repair two large landslides that developed this spring on the property.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Paul Rogers

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous with shopping.