SYRCL at SERCAL 2025: Advancing Restoration Across California
In April, SYRCL’s Watershed Science team joined over 300 restoration professionals, agency representatives, academics, NGOs, and students in Sacramento for SERCAL…
Aspen Regeneration
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Request for bids: Tree work at Salmon and Packer Creek in 2025
In 2020, the South Yuba River Citizens League was awarded a planning grant by the Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) to conduct…
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Caught on Camera! Aspen Wildlife Game Cameras in Action
For the last three years, SYRCL has placed game cameras within aspen stands in the upper Yuba watershed. We have cameras throughout the North, Middle, and South Yuba.
These animals use the aspen for foraging or hunting grounds, bedding for young, or even as back scratching posts. In our placement of game cameras, we want to gauge the diversity of animals that utilize these aspen stands, as well as the frequency.
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Upper Watershed Fall Foliage
Aspen and cottonwoods changing colors in the North and Middle Yuba watersheds.
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2023 Central Sierra Western Slope Aspen Workshop
On September 7th and 8th, over 30 aspen experts from all over the country and those involved in aspen restoration in this region came to San Francisco State’s Sierra Nevada Field Campus in the North Yuba to attend the 2023 Central Sierra Western Slope Aspen Workshop, coordinated by the South Yuba River Citizens League and the Forest Service. The event was sponsored by Yuba Water Agency.
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Aspen on the Landscape
Here on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, quaking aspen exists as a minor element of the forest in terms of acreage, making up only 1% of the forest and within the Yuba River watershed, aspen trees are mostly found within the headwaters. However, aspen trees provide an outsized role in terms of landscape resilience, biodiversity, and human enrichment. By looking to the aspen stands in the Yuba River watershed and where they are present, we can learn more about our home watershed’s natural history.
