Do you know the importance of aspen trees for biodiversity in our watershed? Did you know that Aspen stands are currently threatened? Are you curious about the relationship between aspen and meadows? Please join SYRCL for a FREE educational evening with David Burton, Director of the Aspen Delineation Project and recipient of Bureau of Land [...]

  SYRCL partnered with Sierra Streams Institute (SSI) to host a day dedicated to restoration in the Yuba Watershed with 16 employees of the Patagonia Service Center in Reno, Nevada on May 16. Adele Rife, SYRCL’s Restoration Coordinator, worked with Ori Chafe, SSI’s Restoration Ecologist to organize the restoration day. The morning consisted of restoration [...]

Become a certified naturalist this summer and apply your skills to help benefit the Yuba Watershed! UC Berkeley-Sagehen Creek Field Station in Truckee is offering California Naturalist courses this summer for anyone who would like to become a Citizen Scientist in their community.  The course offers hands-on exposure to real-world environmental projects, preparing you to [...]

SYRCL is looking to hire four people to become River Captains and get paid to be on the river educating the public about stewardship, and managing volunteers.  Resumes will be accepted for the River Captain positions until May 18th.  River Captains commit to at least 11 weekend days throughout the summer.  Visit our job posting [...]

SYRCL’s 22 volunteers removed 1 acre of  Scotch Broom at Hoyt’s Crossing on the South Yuba River on April 27th. With such an excellent turn out of dedicated volunteers, we covered more ground than expected. SYRCL has adopted Hoyts Crossing as a site for annual removal efforts and eventual eradication.  This work helps to reduce [...]

Nevada City, CA – With over 450,000 people visiting the Yuba River every summer, the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) is expanding its River Ambassador program to all four major river crossings this summer in order to prevent the South Yuba River from being “loved to death.”  SYRCL seeks Yuba lovers to serve as [...]

The SYRCL family of staff and volunteers are thrilled to welcome 11 new stewards of the Yuba!  Volunteers from all over the watershed convened at the beautiful South Yuba River State Park at Bridgeport on April 20th to learn the technical skills required to collect useful scientific information on water quality conditions. Hands on learning [...]

We are calling on all river lovers to join us in this sustained effort to rid Hoyts Crossing of Scotch Broom on April 27th at 9 am. The Scotch Broom Challenge day includes a one mile hike into Hoyt’s Crossing on the South Yuba River, a brief introduction to Scotch Broom, such as identification and [...]

SYRCL began another year of its successful River Monitoring program on March 9th with a kick-off breakfast gathering and training refresher before 28 River Monitors set out to collect data on river conditions at 27 sites throughout the Yuba watershed. Twenty River Monitors and SYRCL staff gathered at the office to first celebrate the arrival of a new monitoring season.  [...]

SYRCL staff have issued a new report evaluating and summarizing data collected by volunteer River Monitors in 2012.  The 2012 Data Summary and Quality Assurance Report concludes that the data collected by citizens is generally of high quality and in compliance with state standards for quality assurance.  The report also analyzes the data with regard to water [...]