Sierra Nevada Alliance invites you to join us for our May monthly webinar: What's new with water in the Sierra? Andy Sawyer, Assistant Chief Council with the California State Water Board will share recent developments in California water rights management, drought response with a focus on in-stream flow protection, and water quality certification for hydroelectric

Sierra Nevada Alliance invites you to join us for our May monthly webinar: What's new with water in the Sierra? Andy Sawyer, Assistant Chief Council with the California State Water Board will share recent developments in California water rights management, drought response with a focus on in-stream flow protection, and water quality certification for hydroelectric

What's all this talk about carbon? Carbon markets, a component of nature-based solutions, are a market-based solution to provide funding for various management practices that take up additional carbon on the forested landscape. Nature-based solutions describe various methods for mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection, and ecosystem services preservation. All carbon projects must

What's all this talk about carbon? Carbon markets, a component of nature-based solutions, are a market-based solution to provide funding for various management practices that take up additional carbon on the forested landscape. Nature-based solutions describe various methods for mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection, and ecosystem services preservation. All carbon projects must

What's all this talk about carbon? Carbon markets, a component of nature-based solutions, are a market-based solution to provide funding for various management practices that take up additional carbon on the forested landscape. Nature-based solutions describe various methods for mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration, biodiversity protection, and ecosystem services preservation. All carbon projects must

Sierra Nevada Alliance is pleased to have Vanessa Muñoz, Conservation Program Manager with the Hispanic Access Foundation, presenting during our August webinar. Vanessa will discuss the lack of diversity in the outdoors and the impacts of the climate crisis on communities of color. What is the Nature Gap? Nature is supposed to be a “great

Our first virtual speaker series event of 2024 debuts with an amazing opportunity to hear how you can turn your passion into activism. Jessica Jane Robinson will join us to speak on her life's work educating youth through conservation curriculum, fighting for our Earth, what life is like as a superhero character, and more! Also check out

Join us for the formal presentation of the Lake Tahoe Ambassador summer 2024 research projects! Hear about the research and hard work put into being environmental stewards in Lake Tahoe, from this year's dedicated cohort of local high school and college students. Register here.

California, specifically the Sierra Nevada region, is both an old and new extractive frontier, with hotspots of environmental injustice. Abandoned gold rush-era mines have left a toxic legacy that continues to impact communities and ecosystems. Recently, high gold prices have sparked renewed interest in exploration for open pit mines, threatening biologically diverse and sacred landscapes