How to tell Canyon Live Oak from Interior Live Oak, a confounding could-be hybrid, and the joys of unanswered questions If I wanted a friend to experience the wonder and mystery of Oaks, I would take ...Read More

Now that we head into fall, it’s a perfect time to reflect on our 2026 monitoring field season here at SSI! As a part of our two year Delta Project- our monitoring team set out to investigate over 30 ...Read More

In January of this year (2026), we received great news that our request for federal funding to reduce fuels and improve forest health on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) parcels in the Jones Bar neighb...Read More

It has been a while since we last discussed our 7 principles of sound science. As a reminder, we’re putting out this series in an effort to shine more light on what science is and isn’t in an era of i...Read More

About 140 years ago, the prolific horticulturalist Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa, California received a packet of seeds in the mail from India, near the Himalayan Mountains, and was pleased to find the...Read More

This post includes data and information provided by Bob Stefanski, retired Chief of the WMO Agricultural Meteorology Division of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland, mem...Read More

Written by Jeff Lauder and Mali Valerio At Sierra Streams Institute, we like to say (and in fact this was a tagline on our old website) that “Science is for everyone”. We acknowledge that often, token...Read More

Written By Helen Fitanides and Mali Valerio Questions: Why is there so much algae in the Yuba this year? Why does it seem like Hoyt’s crossing pools are most impacted? We had interesting weather...Read More