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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.

Space available in Sierra College course on Sierra Nevada natural history

Interdisciplinary 6 – The Sierra Nevada is a semester course at Sierra College in Rocklin, California examining the unique features of the Sierra through a

Flowers In Your Hair

“Have a flower,” said the girl, handing me a yellow daisy, “trees are brothers.” She was chicly dressed, perhaps a university student, and she had

Micro and Macro in the Sierra Nevada

At the atomic level, probably not much in the Sierra has changed over the last two hundred years. There is marginally less gold, of course,

Lake Tahoe Earthquake Fault

Good to know that the folks at the California Geological Survey are keeping an eye on Lake Tahoe's faults. "There are active faults near the

On-Line Land Use Forum For Sierra County

A group up in Sierra County has started an on-line forum to galvanize community dialogue around land use issues in the Sierra Valley, north of

"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

Individualism and Community in the Modern Sierra

It's no longer news that the Sierra foothills and the Sierra itself have experienced significant waves of in-migration since the 1970s. At first the newcomers

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