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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.

"Green" mining claims make local activists see red

Canary-In-Chief Barbara Michelman and Associate Undermining Engineer Loraine Webb respond to claims of "green" mining project at Idaho-Maryland Mine in Grass Valley in this Op-Ed

Protecting Ranchland in Mariposa County

Mariposa County should be proud of its new 20-year growth plan that will protect 425,000 acres of ranchland, according to a diverse group of community

Orion Grassroots Network on Sierra stories

Orion Grassroots Network is featuring a story this month on a forest ecology workshop held this fall by the Yuba Watershed Institute and the Woolman

Radio documentary about the Owens River

Listen to "Giving Back the Owens" a radio producer's journey from the high Sierra source of the Owens River to the (once) dry lakebed. Robin

Land trusts no longer "just for environmentalists"

There's been a dramatic increase in private lands protected through legal agreements with land trusts according to a December 1 article by Bettina Boxall in

Owens River Flows December 6

"...one of the most ambitious river restoration efforts ever attempted." writes Louis Sahagun in today's LA Times article. The Los Angeles Department of Water and

Sierra Snowpack in Peril

Scientists set up in Sierra to track shrinking snow pack , Carl T Hall writes in the SF Chronicle. This ought to be a horror

SMUD Dams on American River Face Changes

According to the Sacramento Bee's article, SMUD dams face changes , the U.S. Forest Service is demanding major changes at American River dams owned by

How Many People Does it Take to Clog Up Yosemite Valley?

You've been there - after a 4 hour drive from the city, you're sitting in a traffic jam, breathing bus fumes on the loop road

Why do you care about conservation?

Let me pose the question - Why do you care about conservation? As a long-time public radio producer and editor, I usually let such questions

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