Events

Join us as we celebrate our 35th anniversary AND the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act with the 2024 Wilderness & Beyond Conference in beautiful Estes Park, Colorado. There will be workshops, receptions, and so much more with like-minded wilderness advocates. You’ll hear from conservation luminaries and grassroots organizing experts while also sharing ideas and

Ready to dive into the wonderful world of fermentation? 🥒🍋 Join us for an evening of hands-on demos, delicious samples, and the chance to collect cultures that’ll keep your kitchen bubbling with health! Long before refrigerators, fermentation was the go-to way to preserve and enrich food. Cultures from every corner of the globe have embraced fermentation

Top two images: Great Valley Museum; Bottom three images: Denise Godbout-Avant. Join us to learn how the original people of California used native plants in their everyday lives! The Indigenous people of California lived here for thousands of years, during which time they made the most of what California’s various habitats offered them. In the

In Spring 2024, volunteers will work hard to remove invasive musk thistle from Mount Rose Wilderness! This fall, we will head into Mount Rose Wilderness to spread native seeds in these recovering riparian areas and help bring back native plants. We will hike bags of seeds from native grasses and pollinator-friendly plants, spread them across

The Tahoe Area Sierra Club will be having wildlife research organization, Pathways for Wildlife, present what their organization does on October 16th at 5:00 pm at Lake Tahoe Community College in the Aspen-Board Room.  Pathways for Wildlife is a wildlife research organization working with different agencies and conservation organizations to help identify important wildlife and

Episode #1 of Y/S RC&DC's Long-Term Maintenance & Stewardship Webinar Series! Simultaneously a throwback and a technique on the cutting edge of environmental research, prescribed grazing has shown its promise as a tool for fuels reduction. Experts will detail the use cases for this technique and explain the benefits and challenges involved in including herbivores

Session #1 of Y/S RC&DC's Long-Term Maintenance & Stewardship Webinar Series!  Simultaneously a throwback and a technique on the cutting edge of environmental research, prescribed grazing has shown its promise as a tool for fuels reduction. Experts will detail the use cases for this technique and explain the benefits and challenges involved in including herbivores in

iNaturalist and Calflora are two platforms practically every naturalist and native plant enthusiast now know. During this live online interactive session, we will learn more about each of these applications. Expect to gain insights into how enthusiasts, professionals, botanists, and conservation advocates use these systems to identify and share information about California plant distribution and

Mark your calendars! The 29th Annual Truckee River Day and River Fair are coming up on Sunday, October 20th and we hope to see you all there! Every year, hundreds of volunteers from this special community come together to help create sustainability and resiliency in our forests, meadows and streams throughout our watershed. We are

Come help plant sugar pines to restore forest diversity at Truckee River Day! Please register for this event at the Truckee River Watershed Councils website and choose our Tree Planting project. Join us for FREE family fun and educational games at the River Fair at Granite Flat Campground afterwards from 1-4pm. As always, seedlings, shovels, gloves and

Join us for a Science Speaks Lecture from award-winning author Judith Schwartz. Her presentation will highlight the way understanding how landscapes “work” will help us address the many challenges we face. While discussions of climate focus on CO2, Judith looks at how the planet manages heat points to water: specifically, the phase changes of water