After four months as a Field Technician with us, Becca has officially entered her new role as our Citizen Science and Outreach Coordinator! In her new role, she will be working hard to develop our Environmental Center, coordinate with volunteers and be the smiling face at outreach events. Becca spent […]
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The first annual Know Your Watershed Week, April 28 -May 6, 2018, will celebrate the Yuba, Bear and American River watersheds with many activities including school programs, hikes, restoration activities, bioblitzes, poetry, a run, and more throughout the three watersheds. April 28th Event Timeline 13075 Woolman Lane, Nevada City, CA 95959 8:00 am: Race Registration Opens […]
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Tuesday, April 17th, Science Speakers Series Ryan Bart, Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Merced, “Water Supply and the Sierra Nevada: Why Vegetation Matters!” 6:00–6:30 pm Refreshments 6:30-7:30 pm Presentation Sierra College Multipurpose Center N12 250 Sierra College Dr., Grass Valley Wednesday, April 18th, Scotch Broom Pull Scotch Broom Pull April 18th 9 AM – […]
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Over the past few months, Sierra Streams Institute has been working with a team of volunteers on a fuels reduction project at Nevada City’s Hirschman’s Pond. If you were recently walking on the trails at Hirschman’s Pond, you may have seen yellow flagging amidst the trees and heard the sound […]
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Bear Yuba Land Trust (BYLT) honored Joanne Hild, Sierra Streams Institute’s Executive Director, with the William “Bill” Nickerl Award for Conservation Leadership Award. The award presentation will take place Thursday, March 22nd at this year’s Oak Tree Ball, a fundraiser for the Bear Yuba Land Trust. We hope you can join […]
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Allie and Emily served their first day as AmeriCorps members at Sierra Streams Institute on September 23rd! They are excited to get to know our amazing network of supporters and volunteers so, they figured they would start with a brief introduction: Allison Hacker has a well rounded background in biology, […]
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PLEASE NOTE: This post has been updated to reflect the change from a raffle to an opportunity drawing. During the first weekend in October, when 44 studios open their doors across Nevada County for the Fall Colors Open Studios Art Tour, artist Lisa Redfern will be showing a range of […]
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A Community Update Submitted by Denise Della Santina Since 2010, Sierra Streams Institute (SSI) has monitored flora and fauna and completed stewardship work at Hirschman’s Pond. In 2015, SSI collected and compiled scientific data about the habitat and organisms living there to write the Hirschman’s Pond Land Management Plan as […]
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Ms. Kara Hellige U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1325 J Street, Room 1350 Sacramento, CA 95814-2922 Re: Comments on the Notice of Intent to Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Centennial Reservoir Project Dear Ms. Hellige: The following comments are submitted on behalf of Sierra Streams Institute regarding […]
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CALLING ALL CITIZEN SCIENTISTS: We have started a new project on iNaturalist.org that needs your help! If you find yourself within one mile of the Bear River, along the stretch between the Combie and Rollins Reservoirs, please submit photos of any organisms (plants, animals, fungi, etc.) you see in the […]
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After a long, wet winter, spring is finally upon us (or at least just around the corner). So we are especially happy to announce the completion of the Providence Mine Spur Trail – just in time for hiking season! The spur trail project adds approximately 700 feet of trail, extending […]
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On February 21, Kelly Santos, an Education Program Director at the Sierra Streams Institute, presented the first of this spring’s Sierra Science Speakers Series presentations. This is a free science seminar series put on by the Sierra Streams Institute and Sierra College Nevada County Campus that focuses on local and regional environmental […]
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AmeriCorps is a national program that places thousands of young adults each year into intensive service positions where they learn valuable work skills, earn money for education, and develop an appreciation for citizenship. Since the program’s founding in 1994, more than 1 million AmeriCorps members have contributed more than 1.4 billion hours in service […]
Read More >TONIGHT! Tuesday, March 14, 2017 6:00-7:30 PM Featuring SSI’s Katy Janes, Joanne Hild, and Dr. Peggy Reynold @ Sierra College Multipurpose Center N12, 250 Sierra College Drive, Grass Valley
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California has been experiencing one of its wettest water years in recent history. After four years of record breaking drought conditions, reservoirs throughout the state are nearing capacity or full due to the recent precipitation. In particular, storms at the beginning of January resulted in considerable runoff and caused widespread […]
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, held each year on the third Monday in January, is the only federal holiday observed as a national day of service – a “day on, not a day off.” This year, fifteen volunteers joined Sierra Streams Institute’s staff to clear about 1.5 […]
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Showing up at five or six o’clock in the morning, every single month for at least one week, sometimes two, for sixteen years. That’s commitment. This month, Harlow Rothert “retired” from his longtime role as volunteer coordinator for SSI’s water quality monitoring program. On February 2nd, more than 60 volunteer […]
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Greetings River Enthusiast! Please join us March 2nd from 6-8pm at the SSI office to review and learn the SSI stream monitoring protocols. We are encouraging all current, future or just interested monitors to join us so we can assure all data collection is being done with the highest quality […]
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Thanks to a grant from the Volgenau Foundation, Sierra Streams Institute’s scientific and cultural collaboration with the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe will continue in 2017. Last year’s Gathering Garden project restored native vegetation to Nisenan ancestral lands and helped connect the local non-Indian community to the ecological and cultural […]
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