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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.

Wealthy Folks are Colonizing Rural America, Wall St. Journal Page One

An urban friend sent me a clipping of a recent Wall Street Journal article by Conor Dougherty. Rural America is the recreation and retirement destination

Cutting Carbon One Clothespin and One Perception At A Time

The summer of 1968 in Ohio was stifling hot and seemed to last forever. I was a five year old impervious to the heat and

Sierra voices need to be heard--send your thoughts to the advisory members of the Statewide Watershed Program

Here is your chance to get your thoughts to representatives on the Statewide Watershed Program advisory committee--the list of members is included and you probably

Public invited to learn local Indian history at community forum

Local Maidu tribal members and supporters offer the public an opportunity to learn about historical experiences of local Indians and how to get involved with

Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is More than just Movies!

Wild & Scenic Film Fest in Nevada City inspires actionFilms and workshops show people taking charge of their lives--and our planet’s future Founded in 2003 by

Holiday on the farm

I just returned from spending the holidays at my grandfather's place, a little gentleman's farm in Maryland. He is selling his place to a developer,

Spending bill urges peace in the Sierra: Language is inserted for logging mediation

By MICHAEL DOYLEBEE WASHINGTON BUREAU last updated: December 19, 2007 03:21:07 AM WASHINGTON -- Congress is playing Sierra Nevada peacemaker in a big spending bill that

Martis land in public hands

David Bunker of the Sierra Sun writes about the acquisition of Waddle Ranch as public land and its preservation as open space. The verdant meadows

80,000 Public Comments on Spotted Owl Recovery Plan

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pacific Regional Director Ren Lohoefener announced a strategy today to develop a final recovery plan for the threatened northern spotted

Dyer Mountain Development Going to Court

Mountain Meadows Conservancy, Sierra Watch, and Sierra Club petitioned Lassen County Superior Court to overturn the county's approval of a massive resort development project proposed

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