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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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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,
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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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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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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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The Bear Yuba Land Trust is going to mix it up in the morning for this month’s Trail Mix! We’ll be out with the Slide Creek Trail Stewards for some trail work and maintenance along Slide Creek Trail in downtown Grass Valley. We’ll be getting at some invasive species, working on trail improvements, and having |
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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
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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.
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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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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 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
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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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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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Join us to plant 1000 sugar pines and Jeffrey pines at the base of Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort, which burned in the Caldor fire. This is our biggest public planting of the season and we need all of the help we can get! Wear closed toe shoes, sun protection, work gloves and bring some water. Lunch |
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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 |
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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
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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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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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The Forest Health Community Working Group is hosting a volunteer tree planting event on Saturday, October 26, from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. Come help reforest the Tamarack Fire Burn Scar. Bring a water bottle, sun protection, and please wear long pants, long sleeves, and closed-toe shoes. Gloves and tools will be provided. 
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,
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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 |
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The California Forest Conservation Plan Wildfires have burned millions of acres across California. These large-scale, high-severity wildfires are devastating to communities, infrastructure and forest-dwelling wildlife. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is committed to working with public and private partners to create healthier, more resilient forests across California. In response to our partners’ efforts to |
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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
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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 |
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Have you always wanted to know more about salmon spawning on the Yuba River? Join SYRCL education staff and the river guides at H2O Adventures on a float trip down the lower Yuba to see spawning salmon. Open to ages 4 and up, this educational and fun day on a raft mirrors the experience of the
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Join Bear Yuba Land Trust for a tour of the Sanford Dominguez Agricultural Conservation Easement. This 65 acre Conservation Easement located in Southern Nevada County is part of the historic Sanford Ranch established in 1903, and holds significant cultural landmarks, including bedrock mortars carved by early Nisenan peoples and rock walls built by Chinese immigrants |
