The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is excited to be presenting two evenings of films this year at the 14th annual California WorldFest which is held this year July 15-18, 2010 at the Grass Valley Fairgrounds. Friday, July 16th, 6-7:30 p.m.: Gain a global, environmental perspective with films from around the world…learn about conservation [...]

With three monitoring days under my belt in 2010 I am feeling reflective and would like to share with all our members, a day in the life of the River Monitoring Coordinator. I will share with you my experiences on one special day that only comes around once a month; River Monitoring Day. The arrival [...]

The Yuba River Watershed Information System, or Yuba Shed, has been launched at www.yubashed.org.  The site contains extensive data from SYRCL’s River Monitoring Program, a dynamic map of monitoring stations, photographs and the State of the Yuba Report.  The site also contains a library of more than 120 documents relevant to assessing conditions in the [...]

SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is seeking a dynamic Sponsorship Sales Liaison to join our 2011 Festival Team. The 9th annual Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is January 14-16, 2011 in Nevada City, CA. It is held over 3 days, featuring 135 films in 8 venues with an attendance of over 3500, [...]

The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival is excited to be presenting two evenings of film again this year at the 14th annual California WorldFest is July 15-18, 2010. The festival features eight stages of music and dance from around the world, camping with family and friends, workshops, international food, fine crafts, and a renowned [...]

After a few short months, Brooke Berger has settled into her AmeriCorps role as SYRCL’s River Monitoring Coordinator. After recruitment and orientation activities in February and March, SYRCL’s River Monitoring Program is thrilled to welcome 16 new stewards of the Yuba! Volunteers from all over the watershed convened at beautiful at the South Yuba River [...]

What does a week in Mazatlan, a sailing trip on Scott’s Flat Lake, a vacation home for a week in Incline Village, a home on the Yuba, a home in Yosemite, an authentic Indian dinner served for 6 people, yoga classes, tickets to WorldFest or the Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival, salsa lessons, restaurant certificates, cooking [...]

By Gary Reedy, SYRCL River Science Director Daguerre Point Dam is a known impact to salmon as they migrate both upstream and downstream in the lower Yuba River, but for the time being the antiquated ladders at the dam house some highly sophisticated fish counting equipment. Those infrared-image capturing devices have just begun to detect [...]

It’s only been four months since the film festival in Nevada City but the touring program of Wild & Scenic has already inspired audiences in 48 cities across the United Sates including one event in Kimberley, BC, our first international venue! By December, close to 95 cities will have played the films of Wild & [...]

On April 17th, 14 hikers gathered at the South Yuba Campground on a glorious spring morning for SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic commemorative hike. Led by local historian, archeologist, author and authoritative trail guru Hank Meals, the crew got off to a strong start (and kept it up!) to cover 16 miles along the 39 mile [...]