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• The Heavenly Mountain Run will challenge trail runners with a 5.8-mile run ascending from the 6,565-foot California Base Lodge to the Tamarack Lodge at 9,150-feet on Sept. 2. Register online.

• The Sierra Club is staging a publicity event Aug. 29 at noon when more than 5,000 petitions, letters and public comments will be delivered to the U.S. Forest Service’s South Lake Tahoe office “in support of strong protections for the forests and watersheds of the Lake Tahoe Basin”.

• Here is the Caltrans roadwork schedule for this week in El Dorado-Tahoe and the Sierra.