By Spencer Lachman Collaborative Forestry Management Apprentice Degraded conditions within the forests and meadows of the northern Sierra Nevada pose complex challenges to land managers looking to prioritize ecosystem health. […]
Sierra Institute and the Maidu Summit Consortium partner on landscape treatments on the West Shore of Lake Almanor.
By Spencer Lachman, Collaborative Forestry Management Apprentice On a recent, brisk October morning, members of the Maidu Summit Consortium, the Sierra Institute, and the US Forest Service gathered just west […]
Connecting During COVID-19
As seen in many other workplaces, March 2020 resulted in the adoption of an unusual environment at the Sierra Institute – working remotely during a global pandemic. On March 16th, […]
Conditions for Collaboration: A New Apprentice’s First Impressions
Before arriving in Taylorsville, I thought I knew what to expect. I had lived in a few small towns and traveled through many others. But in the northeastern Sierra, I […]
Harnessing the Power of Hazardous Trees:
How one rural community is utilizing fuels reduction activities and a biomass boiler to increase the pace of forest restoration and promote socioeconomic development. What if I told you the […]
P-CREW reunion at Marin Headlands
During the summer, P-CREW crew members spend five weeks in the wilderness, working 8-hour days doing physical labor, backpacking, and living in close proximity with 11 other teenagers and two […]
Lassen Volcanic National Park News Release
A wilderness crew from the Sierra Institute will assist with manual fuels reduction activities on Flatiron Ridge in Lassen Volcanic National Park through September.
Landscape level management options for the Baker Cypress
When driving north on highway 89 toward Burney, looking out at miles of charred hills and dead trees that make up what is now the footprint of the Eiler Fire, […]
Calaveras Healthy Impact Product Solutions
This is the third week of our series highlighting the Rural Community Development Initiative. This week’s focus is on one of our partner organizations working toward triple bottom line solutions […]
Camptonville Community Partnership
This is the second installment of this month’s series on the Rural Community Development Initiative. Camptonville Community Partnership has been serving the community of Camptonville since 1996. For nearly 20 […]