A wilderness crew from the Sierra Institute will assist with manual fuels reduction activities on Flatiron Ridge in Lassen Volcanic National Park through September.
Lassen Volcanic National Park News Release
The Way of the Future
A feature of working with community members at the Sierra Institute is passion. People, rightly, care a lot about what happens in the natural world just outside their doors. They get passionate, to a point that someone walking into a community meeting might sometimes think we aren’t debating but in conflict. Yet the reality is […]
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, you likely question if and how the forest might recover from such a severe burn. The Eiler Fire burned 32,416 acres of the Lassen National […]
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 in Calaveras County. Calaveras Healthy Impact Product Solutions (CHIPS) was formed in 2003 to address unemployment, wildfire, and other issues facing the community by “doing […]
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 years, its programs remained focused on youth and family development and providing space for the community to grow and connect. Camptonville Community Partnership (CCP) sponsors […]
Rural Community Development Initiative
This is the first post in this month’s blog series highlighting our RCDI project. Throughout March, I will be highlighting several community projects from Sierra Institute’s RCDI network. Through our Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI), Sierra Institute has supported nine rural communities as they navigate the complex process of developing bioenergy facilities and wood products […]