Samantha Vigil is always on the go! She loves to try new things and is always looking for activities to try. This is certainly clear when you look at her accomplishments. As she pursues her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies at Sacramento State, she works as a scientific aid for the […]
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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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As we walked out into Ellis Meadow, the only thing we could hear was the hum of hundreds of buzzing bees. The bees, however, were not the reason we had bushwhacked up 1,700 feet of elevation and utilized our best orienteering skills to reach this meadow. Our real objective: assessing […]
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Over the past several years Sierra Streams Institute has been monitoring salmon and steelhead populations in Deer Creek, a tributary to the lower Yuba River located less than a mile downstream of Englebright Dam. Deer Creek provides spawning and potential natal and non-natal rearing habitat for Chinook salmon and steelhead […]
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Chorus frogs (Pseudacris sierra) Sometimes they’re called tree frogs, but even though they are capable climbers, due to having somewhat enlarged toe pads, they do not frequent trees. Identifying features: Black or dark brown horizontal stripes extend from snout, through eyes, to shoulders, toe pads, webbed hind feet, coloration varies: […]
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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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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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Sierra Streams Institute has received a grant from Sierra Nevada Conservancy’s Proposition 1 funds to implement the Hirschman’s Pond Forest Health Project. The goals of this project are to improve forest health by reducing dense overstocked trees and invasive plants, to help prevent catastrophic wildfire and impacts to water quality […]
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