SYRCL’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival will be at the 14th annual California WorldFest in Grass Valley, CA – July 15-18th. More info: http://www.worldfest.net Headliners for the WorldFest include Keb Mo and Ziggy Marley plus eight stages of music and dance from around the world, camping with family and friends, workshops, international food, fine crafts, [...]

July 13, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Jason Rainey, Executive Director, SYRCL: 530 264-6879; jason@syrcl.org Chris Sproul, Lead Attorney, Environmental Advocates csproul@enviroadvocates.com Steve Evans, Conservation Director, Friends of the River, (916) 442-3155, Ext. 221 Court Victory for Yuba Salmon Two Federal Dams in Violation of Salmon Protection Laws Sacramento, CA -  After decades of mismanagement, [...]

SYRCL’s River Monitoring Program is in need of a digital camera! We use cameras to capture images of our monitoring sites, to provide evidence of watershed degredation,  and to document the presence of species of interest like the yellow legged frog and beaver. Many photos like these are avaliable for you to view online at [...]

Join Miriam Limov, RiverPeople Coordinator for SYRCL and Joe Chavez, from the U.S. Forest Service to build trails to replace ones that are degraded in a highly used area of Grouse Ridge, Tahoe National Forest August 20-22, 2010. Meadow education, evening programs, swimming and fun included! Young adults 16 and 17 years old may participate [...]

Saturday, September 25, 2010 for the 13th Annual Greater Yuba River CleanUp and Restoration Day taking place at over 35 locations in the Yuba Watershed. To register for the Clean-Up and Restoration Days Click here! The South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) has spearheaded twelve successful years of river cleanups in partnership with the California [...]

In addition to monthly water quality testing, SYRCL’s River Monitoring Program consists of two types of bioassesment – methods of using living creatures to tell us about the quality of our water and the health of our watershed.  Volunteers have collected benthic macroinvertebrates (BMIs) at numerous sites on the Yuba watershed since 2004.  Consisting mostly [...]

On June 29, the River Management Team of the Yuba Accord hosted the 2nd annual Symposium on Fisheries Monitoring and Evaluation in the Lower Yuba River.  Among scores of agency personnel and professional fisheries biologists, a dozen SYRCL members attended the Sacramento event to learn how the lower Yuba River is becoming one of the [...]