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National Zero Waste Conference
The National Zero Waste Conference is the annual two-day virtual educational and networking event organized by Zero Waste USA and our partners. 2024 Conference Topics Include: Using AI and Zero Waste Solutions to Divert Reusable Furniture from Landfills Moving the Zero Waste Needle in K-12 Schools and Universities Zero Waste in the Trenches: Case Studies for Corporate Challenges
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30×30 Partnership 2024 Summit
30×30 Partnership 2024 Summit
Welcome to the 30x30 Partnership 2024 Summit! Join us for the 30x30 Partnership 2024 Summit! This year’s themes of inspire, innovate, and integrate are a launching point for engaging presentations, rich discussion, and time with colleagues to connect and learn about how 30x30 is being made real across California. Registration covers the cost of snacks,
October Naturehood Webinar: Garden Guardians
October Naturehood Webinar: Garden Guardians
How can you prevent plant pathogens from invading your landscape? What are the best ways to scout for pests? What should you look for when buying new plants to keep your garden healthy? What are the latest trends in California forest tree diseases? Join experts from the Phytophthoras in Native Habitats Work Group and the
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Rendezvous by the River
Rendezvous by the River
Help protect and restore the rivers of California and have a fun-filled evening under the stars on the banks of the American River. The evening will be filled with festivity and friends, food and wine, music and dancing. The combination of the Sites Reservoir Project, the Delta Conveyance Project (Tunnel), and the Voluntary Agreements constitute
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2024 Tribal Summit on Sierra Nevada Indigenous Guardianship
The Sierra Nevada Tribal Summit is brought to you by a growing number of tribal-led and tribal-supporting organizations working in the Sierra Nevada region. These entities make up the planning circle – learn more about our members below! Your 2024 Tribal Summit Planning Circle: Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, The Sierra Fund, Todd’s Valley Miwok
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Sierra Nevada Regional Meeting
Register early to reserve your seat at the next meeting of the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, October 10 at the Tahoe Blue Event Center in South Lake Tahoe, hosted by the California Tahoe Conservancy and the Tahoe Fund. The Task Force and CAL FIRE will unveil several new tools that will revolutionize
Oak Woodland Forest Health and Fire Management
Oak Woodland Forest Health and Fire Management
This webinar is an opportunity for participants to increase their understanding of how forest health surveys can help improve fuels and vegetation management strategies in California’s oak woodland communities. Click here for more information.
Learn Over Lunch with Climate Action Now!
Learn Over Lunch with Climate Action Now!
Join us for Learn Over Lunch with Climate Action Now! (CAN!) on Wednesday, October 9th. CAN!, an organization based in San Francisco, will share about their Community Tree Care and Ecological Maintenance model. Learn how CAN! has engaged diverse community members in hands-on garden and tree establishment efforts and created a dynamic irrigation and maintenance
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Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How It Shapes Us
Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How It Shapes Us
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world’s top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and healing. A breakthrough scientific narrative from
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Walk for the Wild 5k Challenge
Walk with us to thrive. Walk to make sure wildlife thrives. Walk for the Wild is an annual event to demonstrate our commitment to deepening human connections with nature and to protect the thriving ecosystems we depend on. Join us to raise awareness and support of National Wildlife Refuges & their partners while we strive
The Harvest Dinner 2024
The Harvest Dinner 2024
Join us to Celebrate the Harvest with a Community Dinner & Benefit for the Northern California Regional Land Trust This annual event is back! Celebrate the Land, enjoy community, and support your local land trust! We are gathering to celebrate land and recognize our community achievements with a Harvest Dinner and Benefit at Eagle Creek
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Lassen County Watershed Restoration – Climate Action Day
Lassen County Watershed Restoration – Climate Action Day
Description: Build community, get hands-on with restoration science, and learn fire-resilient restoration principles. Purpose: Service in partnership with California Climate Action Corps, CA Resource Conservation District, Trout Unlimited, and Symbiotic Restoration. Schedule: 8:30 am Registration 9:00 am Volunteer Assignments 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Volunteer Lunch Role: Volunteers will receive briefings on the watershed and
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Wilderness & Beyond Conference
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
Indigenous Peoples’ Use of California Native Plants
Indigenous Peoples’ Use of California Native Plants
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
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Mount Rose Wilderness Native Plant Re-Seeding – Fall 2024
Mount Rose Wilderness Native Plant Re-Seeding – Fall 2024
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
Sierra Nevada Alliance October Webinar: Mining Threats in the Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada Alliance October Webinar: Mining Threats in the Sierra Nevada
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
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Pathways for Wildlife
Pathways for Wildlife
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
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Prescribed Grazing for Consumption of Wildfire Fuels
Prescribed Grazing for Consumption of Wildfire Fuels
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
iNaturalist and Calflora Public Meeting
iNaturalist and Calflora Public Meeting
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
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29th Annual Truckee River Day
29th Annual Truckee River Day
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
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Sierra Club Placer Group Pizza Palooza
Sierra Club Placer Group Pizza Palooza
Sierra Club-Placer Group is having another Pizza Palooza evening in October. This time our speaker is an award-winning wildlife photographer who will explain how to do camera traps. Click here for more information.
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9th Annual Eastern Sierra History Conference
Offering two days of lectures and presentations from authoritative speakers, plus educational field trips on the third day, the History Conference delivers extensive knowledge about the nature, culture, history and economy of our region, deepening attendees’ understanding of such topics as geology, mining, watersheds and hydrology, wildfire management, Native American wisdom and traditional ecological knowledge,
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Plein Air Paint-out at Wakamatsu Farm
Plein Air Paint-out at Wakamatsu Farm
Join artist David Yapp for a time of plein air painting at Wakamatsu Farm. "En plein air" is a French term meaning “in the open air” and refers to painting outdoors. Bring your own paints and equipment for a time of self-guided painting. You supply all your own materials and equipment (easel, canvas, oils, acrylics,
Trail or Treat: Little Deer Creek
Trail or Treat: Little Deer Creek
We are convening all ghosts and ghouls, witches and warlocks, at Little Deer Creek Trail for BYLT’s annual Trail or Treat Halloween event! Come in your most spooktacular costume for the costume contest and photo booth, then trick or treat your way along the trail for candy, hot cider and popcorn, and Halloween themed crafts. This is
Eastern Sierra Land Trust – Lands & Legacy 2024
Eastern Sierra Land Trust – Lands & Legacy 2024
We are tremendously grateful to our supporters for their remarkable generosity during ESLT’s 15th Annual Lands & Legacy Celebration! Our community came forward to ensure the protection of Eastern Sierra land and wildlife at this critical time for conservation. We are tremendously excited to announce the newly rescheduled Lands & Legacy celebration on Saturday, October
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Lessons Learned about Forest Restoration from the West Mount Shasta Forest Resiliency Project
Lessons Learned about Forest Restoration from the West Mount Shasta Forest Resiliency Project
This field workshop is an opportunity to learn about forest restoration at multiple sites in Siskiyou County. Participants will increase their understanding of how forest restoration practices can increase forest ecosystem health and wildfire resiliency using lessons learned from the West Mount Shasta Forest Resiliency Project. We will also discuss the use of the CalVTP
Lessons Learned about Forest Restoration from the West Mount Shasta Forest Resiliency Project
Lessons Learned about Forest Restoration from the West Mount Shasta Forest Resiliency Project
This field workshop is an opportunity to learn about forest restoration at multiple sites in Siskiyou County. Participants will increase their understanding of how forest restoration practices can increase forest ecosystem health and wildfire resiliency using lessons learned from the West Mount Shasta Forest Resiliency Project. We will also discuss the use of the CalVTP