Each summer, Sierra Streams hosts about four interns for the summer field season. Interns can expect to monitor wildlife, monitor water quality, collect benthic macro invertebrates (BMI), collect algae samples, process samples and more! Days are spent crawling in the most beautiful streams in Nevada County collecting data that informs […]
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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 […]
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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Ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) Also known as: ring-tailed cat, miner’s cat, ring-tailed raccoon Identifying features: Long white and black striped fur tail, large eyes surrounded by white rings of fur, short legs, large rounded ears, and long tan/orange/grayish body. Closest relative: Raccoon (Procyon lotor) By Chloe Tremper Three out of five […]
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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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