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Sierra Institute Blogs

Reinvesting in Working Forests, Business by Business

By Sierra Institute Blogs November 4, 2021

Forest Products for Forest Communities

We began this week with the first snowfall of the season gently blanketing the mountainside beyond Taylorsville. This first glimpse of winter symbolizes the march of time in what has […]

By Sierra Institute Blogs October 22, 2021

Economic Development and Workforce Solutions – Sierra Forest Entrepreneurs

By Addie Wright and Lauren Redmore For rural forested areas across Northern California, economic development initiatives can sometimes be at odds with the environmental and social needs of local communities. […]

By Sierra Institute Blogs October 13, 2021

SCALE and The Evolving Impacts of Wildfire

In the Winter of 2020, the Sierra Institute conducted a series of interviews in preparation for our SCALE meeting, in which we aimed to gain perspective from our stakeholders regarding […]

By Sierra Institute Blogs October 13, 2021

How Has the Dixie Fire Affected Sierra Institute’s Work?

By Kyle Rodgers and Noah Abramson The Dixie Fire burned hot through several communities, reducing homes, businesses, and everything in between to piles of burned rubble. It is hard to […]

By Sierra Institute Blogs October 13, 2021

RISE-ing Up To The Challenge

By Lauren Redmore and Zoe Watson The timber industry decline that led to mill closures in the 1990s left many rural forested communities in California without an economic base, driving […]

By Sierra Institute Blogs October 13, 2021

Youth Support Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Reduction Efforts in Butterfly Valley

Last summer, in 2020, the Sierra Institute for Community & Environment youth crew, Plumas Conservation Restoration and Education in Watersheds (P-CREW) worked in Butterfly Valley, CA. This 500-acre valley is […]

By Sierra Institute Blogs May 25, 2021

Earth Day Reflections by Spencer Lachman

To me, Earth Day is an opportunity to reflect on our individual relationships to global systems. The adage goes, “Think globally and act locally”, suggesting we should consider the broader […]

By Sierra Institute Blogs April 22, 2021

Native Plant Propagation: A New Collaborative and a Novice Horticulturist

I’ve never thought of myself as a gardener and especially not as a native plant horticulturist; however, as I came in as an Americorps Volunteer with the Sierra Institute this […]

By Sierra Institute Blogs April 9, 2021

Who Cares about Forest Roads?

By Virginia Pritchard Virginia started working at the Sierra Institute in the Fall of 2020 as a Collaborative Forestry Management Apprentice and will be working on West Lassen Headwaters Infrastructure […]

By Sierra Institute Blogs February 16, 2021
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