Cheryl Anne Stapp

In all of Lake Tahoe’s 22-mile length and 12-mile breadth, its 191 square miles of surface water and 72 miles of shoreline, there is only one island. Named Fannette Island, it is a smallish, sparsely timbered, brush-covered mass of granite that rises 150 feet above the water, amidst the spectacular scenery of Emerald Bay.   Massive glaciers scoured the Sierra Nevada during the Pleistocene Epoch, carving deep canyons here...depositing vast amounts of soil and rock there...crea

The L a Brea Tar Pits (foreground) with the Pavilion for Japanese Art beyond, in Hancock Park, in Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile district. Photo by Joe Mabel   The City of Los Angeles boasts many ritzy districts. One of them is a genteel, affluent residential neighborhood developed in the 1920s, about six miles east of today’s downtown skyscrapers; a neighborhood of luxurious homes featuring sundry distinctive architectural styles. Historically, its well-preserved mansions sit o

View of hiking trail & Griffith Observatory, downtown Los Angeles in the distance. Photo by Brian Schmidt Sprawled over 4,310 acres, for...

Nestled among towering peaks, a body of sapphire blue water 12 miles wide by 22 miles long, Lake Tahoe is a place of dazzling natural...

Intensely blue, majestic in size, and surrounded by massive jagged peaks, its landscape of vibrant colors inspires a sense of grandeur....

A woman born and raised amid the lush landscapes of 19th century Mississippi seems an unlikely candidate as a conservationist of...

At 447 miles in length the Sacramento River is the longest river that flows through California, with a watershed that encompasses more...

They thought the American River was just a lovely stream of fresh water flowing through the valley from somewhere high in the unexplored...

It’s called the Russian River because there were Russian settlements on the river itself and at other nearby sites from 1812 to 1841....