Events and Activities
11th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival - Coloma & South Lake Tahoe!
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, organized and produced by the South Yuba River Citizens League, leaves attendees feeling INSPIRED and MOTIVATED to go out and make a difference in our communities and the world. By activists and for activists, it is the largest event of this kind, and it showcases our work in a broader environmental and social context, serving to remind us that we’re participants in a global movement for a more wild and scenic world.
Dates: Jan. 31st in Coloma & March 31st in SLT!
Locations: Gold Trail Grange in Coloma & Montbleu Casino in SLT.
Please view festival tour dates here, or visit their website!
Crater Mountain Hike!
Looking for a winter hike? 20 miles South of Bishop, at the north end of the Big Pine Volcanic Field sits Crater Mountain. This Wilderness Study Area offers spectacular views of the Sierra and Inyo Mountains. Friends of the Inyo look forward to the hike, and hopefully seeing Tule Elk and many prehistoric cultural sites!
Date: Jan. 3rd, 2016!
Meet Location: The Big Tree at junction 395 and 168, at 9am
For more info, click here!
Conservation Science Webinar!
Conservation Biology Institute and Data Basin collaborate, providing public webinars!
Date: January 7, 10 AM
Topic: How Temperature and Precipitation Trends Have Affected Mountain Hydrology and Ecology.
For more information about webinar topics and presenters, click here!
TERC Monthly Lecture: Exploring Mars with Curiosity
Dawn Sumner from the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences will be leading this monthly lecture. She is also a member of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, helping the rover Curiosity explore ancient environments in Gale Crater on Mars.
Date: January 28, 2016
Location: California Air Resources Board, Monitoring and Laboratory Division. 1927 13th Street, Sacramento
Details: Seating open at 5:30 p.m. to pre-registered guests, open seating starts at 5:50 p.m. Program starts at 6:00 p.m. $5 suggested donation will be collected at the door.
Please click here to register for this event!
Job Announcements & Volunteer Opportunities
Executive Director: Sierra Nevada Alliance!
We are seeking an innovative, resilient, and dynamic executive director to lead the
organization as it moves into its 23rd year. The executive director will have primary responsibility for
pursuing the Alliance’s long-range vision of successful Sierra conservation in concert with member
organizations, partners, volunteers, staff, and board.
Job description and application info here.
Development Assistant with SYRCL!
The South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) seeks an organized, detail-oriented and friendly person
to work on our development and fundraising team, part-time, in Nevada City. The Development Assistant will coordinate events and
assist in tracking financial contributions, stewarding donors, and doing database entry and funder
research.
Job description and application info here!
Ecologist with Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit!
The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is currently seeking a candidate for an Ecologist, GS-0408- 9/11 position located at the Supervisor’s Office in South Lake Tahoe, California.
To express interest in this position, please contact Becky Estes at bestes@fs.fed.us, for a Voluntary Outreach Interest Form, and return it to Adrian Escobedo at aescobedo02@fs.fed.us by close of business on 1/7/2016
For additional information, please contact Becky Estes at the above email or by phone: 530-642-5161.
Operations Manager: Friends of the Inyo!
Friends of the Inyo seeks an Operations Manager, responsible for day-to-day operations. Responsibilities include financial, human resources requirements and legal obligations, and operations management. This is a full time, year-round, position based in Bishop, CA.
Job description and application info here.
Development Director: Eastern Sierra Land Trust!
The Development Director is responsible for the leadership, strategic direction and management of all fundraising and development for Eastern Sierra Land Trust (ESLT).
Job description and application info here.
Director: Mother Lode Chapter of the Sierra Club!
The Mother Lode Chapter of the Sierra Club seeks a chapter director to provide leadership and to
work under the direction of its volunteer leaders to implement the chapter's policies, programs
and operations. Start date: March 1, 2016.
Full job description available here!
Resources
Yosemite National Park: Public Scoping of Wilderness Stewardship Plan
Yosemite’s Wilderness is currently managed under the 1989 Wilderness Management Plan. The park needs to update this plan to incorporate current information about visitor use patterns, methods of managing visitor use, techniques for trail design and construction, and concepts for managing stock in wilderness.
Yosemite National Park has opened public scoping for planning and environmental impact analysis for the Yosemite Wilderness Stewardship Plan with comments accepted through January 29, 2016.
More information here!
NID Regional Water Supply Project Draft EIR: Notice of Availability and Public Comment Period
The Nevada Irrigation District (NID) is the lead agency for a proposed project to provide reliable, treated water service to properties within the NID service area in and around the City of Lincoln and provide additional raw water supplies to existing customers. As the lead agency, NID has completed a Draft Environmental Impact Report.
NID welcomes comments during the public review period from December 4, 2015 through February 5, 2016!
More information here!
Call for Abstracts - Agricultural Groundwater Conference
The Unique Agricultural Groundwater Conference will be held in San Francisco, June 28-30, 2016. The conference integrates across a wide range of topics specifically focused on this nexus: sustainable groundwater management, groundwater quality protection, groundwater-surface water interactions, the groundwater-energy nexus, agricultural BMPs for groundwater management and protection, monitoring, data management, modeling tools, and agricultural groundwater management, regulation, and economics.
Please consider submitting an abstract to this unique conference focusing on groundwater in key agricultural regions in California, North America and throughout the world!
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2016! More information here!
Free Memberships Available: The Citizen Science Association
The Citizen Science Association is now inviting inaugural members. At this time, there is no cost for membership. As this new organization is being established, inaugural members can help to shape the Association through opportunities to vote on key decisions about direction, priorities, and leadership.
For more information, click here!
CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellowship
California's State Legislature is looking for a few good scientists and engineers to trade their lab coats for business suits, and swap molecules and equations for committee hearings and bill analyses!
Applications for the 2017 Class of our CCST Science & Technology Policy Fellowship open onTuesday, December 1st.
For more information, click here!
