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.
The Mountain Messenger newspaper is on the streets today detailing the extent of business decline in Nevada City, and the news is shocking.
UC Davis researchers at Lake Tahoe this week published the first evidence that climate change alters the makeup of tiny plant communities called algae, which
Today the RCDs in the Sierra Nevada celebrated their recent collaborations with the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, totaling $272,252 in community assistance projects. The projects capitalize
The Forest Service invites the public to help plan the future of National Forest System lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The agency will host
In a final ruling, Judge Robert Tamietti in the Nevada County and California State Superior Court has decided in favor of Nevada County Land Trust
The river brought the pioneers to this green valley. Hardships and hopes were equally doled out by the "the tricky Yuba," as W.T. Ellis would
The U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comment on a proposal to restore aspen stands in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The Aspen Community Restoration Project
Volunteers at the Bureau of Land Management's Cosumnes River Preserve will plant oak trees, repair and refurbish the preserve's farm center, and perform other general
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne joined U.S. Senator and Majority Leader Harry Reid; Chairman Mervin Wright, Jr. of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of
The end of summer is the most wonderful time at the Loma Rica Ranch Organic Farm. Months of careful tending have culminated in acres of
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