In last week’s Spotlight on the Disadvantaged Community Involvement (DACI) Program, I wrote about community identification and mapping. This is the last entry in the DACI Spotlight series. Last week Team DAC had planned to visit the Yosemite-Mariposa Regional Water Management Group (RWMG), where we were going to review the community mapping exercise. Our plans […]
In last week’s Spotlight on the Disadvantaged Community Involvement (DACI) Program, I told you about the DACI grant supporting disadvantaged communities in Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM). This week, I’m going to get into the specifics of our first project: community identification and mapping. Before we can reach out to disadvantaged communities to engage them […]
Happy Friday, Lauren here with this week’s installment of Spotlight on the Disadvantaged Community Involvement (DACI) Program. Last week I wrote about Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) and environmental justice to provide a little background on the “why” of the DACI Program. This week, I’m going to tell you more about the program itself. Integrated […]
Hello and Happy New Year! Way back in December of 2017 I was fortunate enough to head out to the northeastern corner of the Plumas National Forest to tour a number of pond and plug projects developed by the Feather River Coordinated Resource Management. Pond and plug is a means of restoring meadow complexes with […]
P-CREW Reunion 2017 was a fresh wave of air as P-CREW undergoes preparations for program expansion to 4 crews in 2018. Alumni are the heart of the program and continue to positively influence the future of P-CREW. On the first evening in the hostel, the group sat around the main living area of our bunk […]
Hello, my name is Lauren Burton and I am a Social Science Assistant at Sierra Institute and one half of the Laurens working on a new project called the Disadvantaged Community Involvement Program. I am excited to share this project with you over the next few weeks in this month’s Spotlight. This week I’m kicking […]
