Last year, for the first time, I drove to Frenchman Lake, a reservoir about 40 miles north of where I live in Reno. It was a hot summer day, and as we drove up from the flat valley into the hillside, you could see the scorching imprint of devastating fires that have rattled the Feather River watershed over the last few years.
When we got to the reservoir…
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