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Everyone, rural and urban alike, has a reason to care about conservation of California's Sierra Nevada. This magnificent mountain range offers an experience of nature to over 100 million visitors each year. It's also provides 2/3 of every drop of water used in the state. With the population of the Sierra Nevada estimated to triple by 2040, rural life, working landscapes, and community identities are bound to change. Let's talk about how to conserve the environment, economy and culture of the Sierra. And your place, too, wherever you live.

Producer's Journal: STS makes 2009 Top Ten List of Best International Multi-media Projects

Professor Patricia Zimmerman has named STS to her list of the Ten Best International Multi-Platform Web 2.0 Projects of 2009 that Torque Documentary Form. Who

STS blog in hiatus, for now

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of our regional media project, Saving The Sierra, which was funded in part by a grant from

Obama's Agenda for Rural America

From the new whitehouse.gov website: "Rural communities face numerous challenges but also economic opportunities unlike anything we have witnessed in modern history. President Obama and

Malcolm Margolin, founder of Heyday Books, wins Lannan Culture Freedom Award

Santa Fe, NM-- Lannan Foundation announced that it has recognized five human rights advocates with Cultural Freedom Awards for 2008. Recipients of the awards represent

Chinese Whispers: Sierra Stories

A new project, funded by the California Story Fund, and produced by the Arts Council of Placer County, will remember Chinese workers who helped build

Storytelling at River Ridge Ranch

Voices of the Valley storytelling guild holds forth on River Ridge Ranch. Picnic from 6 – 6:30 and then be spellbound from 6:30 – 8:30

Clover Valley Updates from Marilyn Jasper, President

Marilyn Jasper of the Clover Valley Foundation sends this update and announcement: Governor’s Award: We are very pleased to announce that our almost decade-long battle to

Mule Powered Farming for Small Farm Progress Days

To celebrate Small Farm Progress Days going on right now in the northern Sierra, we bring you the story of a Sierra farmer who saves

Producer's Journal: Salmon are back again in the Yuba River, but how many will return?

I spent a few hours in a raft yesterday with a smile on my face, put there by a fish. It was a big smile

Listening to Eastside Stories

Some of the most colorful stories in the history of the American West were written in the landscape known as the Eastern Sierra. Yet only the smallest

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