River gets its bends back

Along the Truckee River east of Sparks, experts are laboring to correct well-intended mistakes of the past. The $7.8 million restoration of the river at Mustang Ranch, the former site of Nevada's first legal bordello, is the latest project in an ambitious effort to restore much of the lower part of a river that runs 116 miles from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake. Among the changes planned will be a return of the natural, meandering twists that historically characterized the river channel. It's one of several similar multimillion-dollar efforts around the country. In Florida, Texas and Utah, costly projects are under way to return rivers altered by people to a state more closely mirroring nature's intention...read more