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.
In California and throughout the West everyone seems to be talking about global warming. Dominating the conversation are dire predictions about diminished water supplies that
For a while my wife and I were living on Table Mountain in Oroville. We were commuting to Chico State for school. After leaving my
Jim Hurley offers this view on growth in the Sierra Foothills: "The room was packed. Not just the usual riffraff, but luminaries of every hue
ALBANY, Calif. - U.S. Forest Service scientists believe an Oregon State University graduate student working on a cooperative project with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research
The Sierra Fund released Mining's Toxic Legacy: An Initiative to Address Mining Toxins in the Sierra Nevada yesterday, a report nearly two years in development.
Many area residents know that the miners of the Gold Rush unleashed a toxic legacy on the region in the form of millions of pounds
Hundreds of species of wild animals and plants living in lush woods are barely surviving as logging, development and global warming take their toll on
Designed for land use planners, water experts, and interested activists, the Sierra Water and Land Use Policy Summit describes the important relationship between water
You are invited to the Kern River Valley Spring Nature Festival from April 30 - May 6, 2008, which is held annually at Audubon's Kern
Kirkwood Mountain Resort is "in substantial compliance" with mitigation measures and conditions and can proceed to develop the Martin Point subdivision, the Amador County Board
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