Our traditional Saturday morning wild mushroom hunt will visit several sites in the local forest. Afterwards, an afternoon of identification and mushroom related presentations will take place at the North Columbia Schoolhouse. Be prepared to walk in the damp woods and off trail for an optimum mushroom hunting experience. Also useful to bring: collection basket, […]
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Yuba Watershed Institute expands capacity to cooperatively manage BLM land in the South Yuba watershed
NEVADA CITY, Calif. October 22, 2020 – The Yuba Watershed Institute (YWI) has hired two new staff members to assist with forest stewardship planning and implementation projects in Nevada County, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and with support from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) and California Department of Forestry and Fire […]
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Roadside Vegetation Management to begin on BLM land on the San Juan Ridge, Nevada County
SAN JUAN RIDGE, Calif. January 6, 2020 – The Yuba Watershed Institute will begin working this week to implement a 200-foot-wide shaded fuel break along key roads traversing U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land on the San Juan Ridge. A total of 55 acres will be treated along roads that have been identified as […]
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Register now for the 22nd Annual Fungus Foray and Wild Mushroom Exposition Dec. 14-15
November 21, 2019 – 22nd Annual Fungus Foray and Wild Mushroom Exposition, hosted by the Yuba Watershed Institute. December 14-15, 2019 Shady Creek Outdoor School and Event Center 18601 Pathfinder Way, Nevada City, CA 95959 Register at www.YubaWatershedInstitute.org/register Saturday December 14, 9 am to 4:30 pm Our traditional Saturday morning wild mushroom hunt and identification will […]
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Workshop on July 13: Learn How to Process and Mill Local Wood
Nevada City, Calif. June 14, 2019 – On July 13, 2019, the Yuba Watershed Institute will host a workshop called “Working with Local Wood: Harvesting, Handling, Processing, & Milling Local Wood to Quality Lumber.” The workshop will take place from 9:30 am to 4 pm at the North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center (17894 Tyler Foote […]
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Yuba Water Agency, DWR launch research to enhance reservoir operations
MARYSVILLE, Calif. April 30, 2019 – – Yuba Water Agency launched an initiative with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography to improve storm and runoff forecasting, and significantly reduce flood risk though enhanced operations of New Bullards Bar and Oroville dams. This research will […]
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CAL FIRE Awards $415,000 to San Juan Ridge ‘Inimim Forest Project
NEVADA CITY, Calif. August 17, 2018 – A collaboration between the Bureau of Land Management Mother Lode Field Office and the Yuba Watershed Institute, a local non-profit group, was recently awarded $414,678 from CAL FIRE’s Climate Change Investments grant program. The funds will be used for 320 acres of fuels reduction treatments on BLM-managed public […]
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Help is needed to protect the big trees of the San Juan Ridge
Nevada City, California October 31, 2017 – The Yuba Watershed Institute (YWI) is a group of citizens who are concerned with the sustainable use of natural resources and the protection of long-term biological diversity in the Yuba River watershed. One of the goals of the YWI is to preserve and restore old forest habitat. The ‘Inimim […]