My name is Laney Smith and I am a 22 year old BMI Lab Technician at Sierra Streams Institute, and recent college graduate as of December, 2025. Originally from Ohio, I have had the unique opportunity ...Read More

At the beginning of April I drove across the Central Valley, over the Sierra Crest, through the Great Basin, across salt flats and desert mesas, and finally over the great continental divide of the Ro...Read More

Hi! I’m Grace Favro, one of SSI’s BMI Lab Technicians. You can find me sitting at a microscope in the Bug Lab, identifying BMI from our Delta and Leviathan projects! I, recently, moved to Grass Valley...Read More

It’s midwinter and the sun hangs low in a clear sky over Dry Creek as Alex, Sierra Streams’ lead restoration technician, guides the two of us along a narrow trail. We wind and weave through willow thi...Read More

In these interesting times of politicization of science, we’ve decided we can’t sit idly by, taking a quiet backseat to public discourse as we often do at SSI, but instead speak up against what we see...Read More

Two new outdoor education resources are helping educators bring students outside to study environmental science and share their experiences across the watershed. Developed through a two-year Environme...Read More

It’s another poster year for wildflowers in California, especially in places like Carrizo Plain National Monument, Death Valley, and Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. In all the excitement for...Read More

During a string of warm and sunny days in early December, the Sierra Streams Institute (SSI) restoration team set out to plant hundreds of native plants along the banks of Dry Creek in Yuba County. Fi...Read More