More than one year after losing our office and laboratory to the Jones Bar Fire, Sierra Streams Institute (SSI) has a new place to call “home” again. We want to show you how we rose from those ashes. So, we invite you to come to celebrate with us and see our new space. Please join […]
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Sierra Streams Institute appoints Jeff Lauder as Executive Director
Interim Executive Director Jeff Lauder has been promoted to Executive Director of Sierra Streams Institute (SSI). Jeff spent his youth exploring the Sierra Nevada and through these explorations learned of the unique and powerful beauty the foothills and mountains in which we live. In college Jeff was fortunate enough to learn about ecology on an […]
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What’s Up with Deer Creek? A Day of Creek Science and Exploration with Sierra Streams Institute
Have you wondered how healthy Deer Creek is? Are you curious about how the drought might be impacting water quality or the animals that depend on Deer Creek and Little Deer Creek? Do you want to know what impact historic gold mining has had on the health of our ecosystems? It isn’t just scientists who […]
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Longtime Executive Director of Sierra Streams Institute Joanne Hild steps down
Nevada City, calif. April 15, 2021 – Longtime Executive Director of Sierra Streams Institute, Joanne Hild, stepped down from her position on Thursday. Joanne worked at the Institute from its inception as its first full-time staff. Leveraging her extensive scientific background Joanne presided over the transition of the local group Friends of Deer Creek into […]
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Cal-TREX Yuba: Prescribed Fire TRaining EXchange Panel Discussion this Friday
April 8, 2021 – In support of the Spring 2021 Cal-TREX Yuba Prescribed Fire training workshop (TRaining EXchange), Open Canopy LLC, Yuba Watershed Institute, and partnering organizations are pleased to host an evening of learning and discussion about the history of fire on the California landscape. Following these two lectures, a panel discussion will focus […]
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Know Your Watershed 2019 Kick-Off Event & Bear River Awakening on March 31
March 29, 2019 – The Kick-off event begins Know Your Watershed month, a month-long collaborative celebration of the Yuba/Deer, Bear/Wolf, and American River Watersheds. The Kick-off event will feature a Nisenan Blessing and several family-friendly outdoor activities and hikes and music from 10am-4pm on March 31st at the Bear River Campground Day Use Area and […]
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Registration Open for the Spring 2019 California Naturalist Course with Sierra Streams Institute
January 11, 2019 – The early bird registration for the 2019 California Naturalist Course at Sierra Streams Institute is now OPEN! Sierra Streams Institute is partnering with the University of California once again to host its 6th year teaching the certificated California Naturalist course! The course has a broad focus on the natural history of […]
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Sierra Streams Institute and Gold Country Fly Fishers: Yuba Fest 2018
Grass Valley, Calif. October 4, 2018 – Sierra Streams Institute (SSI) and Gold Country Fly Fishers (GCFF) announce that SSI will participate in Yuba Fest 2018. “Sierra Streams Institute is excited to be participating in the 2018 Yuba Fest. We think that is important to come together as a community to learn about and care for […]
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Portions of Hirschman’s Pond trail will be closed due to tree work
January 18, 2018 – Sierra Streams Institute and the City of Nevada City are partnering to implement a forest health and fuel reduction project supported by a Sierra Nevada Conservancy Proposition 1 Watershed Improvement Program grant. Project goals are to improve forest and watershed health to help prevent catastrophic wildfire, impacts to water quality and […]
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Hirschman’s Pond Stewardship Day: Saturday, September 9th
NEVADA CITY, Calif. September 8, 2017 – Since 2010, Sierra Streams Institute (SSI) has monitored flora and fauna and completed stewardship work at Hirschman’s Pond. In 2015, SSI collected and compiled scientific data about the habitat and organisms living there to write the Hirschman’s Pond Land Management Plan as a guide for the management of […]
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California Naturalist Advanced Training this fall: Salmon and Steelhead in the Sierra
NEVADA CITY, Calif. August 30, 2017 – Sierra Streams Institute is taking their much-loved California Naturalist class to the next level! This fall, Sierra Streams will be offering the California Naturalist advanced training course: Salmon and Steelhead in the Sierra*. The course will run for three weeks this fall. View the course flyer HERE and […]
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Sierra Science Speakers Series Event on Feb. 21
GRASS VALLEY, California February 16, 2017 – The first of this spring’s Sierra Science Speakers Series presentations will be this Tuesday, February 21st from 6:30-7:30pm. This is a FREE science seminar series put on by the Sierra Streams Institute and Sierra College Nevada County Campus that focuses on local and regional environmental research. Kelly Santos, […]
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A “day on, not a day off” at Hirschman’s Pond
January 20, 2017 – Taking place each year on the third Monday in January, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service is the only federal holiday observed as a national day of service – a “day on, not a day off.” To celebrate MLK Jr. Day, fifteen volunteers joined Sierra Streams Institute’s (SSI) staff […]
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Registration Open for the 2017 UC California Naturalist Program at Sierra Streams Institute
December 12, 2016 – Do you want to learn more about our local natural history and ecology? Looking for a way to gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence necessary to educate your community and take part in citizen science projects with local environmental organizations? If so, Sierra Streams Institute has great news for you! Early […]
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Sierra Streams Institute studies impacts of climate change on plants with two Nevada County high schools
NEVADA CITY, Calif. July 31, 2016 – Sierra Streams Institute (SSI) has completed teaching its phenology project with 9th graders at the Sierra Academy of Expeditionary Learning and 11th and 12th graders at Forest Charter School. A total of 80 students had the opportunity to engage in a comprehensive science project, which took students through the […]