What is Restoration and What Does it Mean for the Yuba River Watershed?
SYRCL recently teamed up with the team at Scout Creative to produce a short film about SYRCL’s restoration work. From the…
River Science
SYRCL Volunteers Complete 22nd Year of River Monitoring
Each spring for the past 22 years, SYRCL trains a group of dedicated, river-loving volunteers to collect scientifically credible data for…
Court Victory for Clean Water and State Regulators in California
On August 4, 2022, a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overruled the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), re-establishing California’s right to protect water quality in the Yuba, Bear, and Merced River Watersheds for the next 40 years.
The California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force’s Science Advisory Panel invites you to participate in a survey.
The California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force’s Science Advisory Panel invites you to participate in a survey to understand stakeholder perspectives on improving forest health and community resilience to wildfire in the Sierra-Cascade-Inyo region.
Creating River Stewards: Monitoring Water Quality on Public Lands
This spring, SYRCL and Tahoe National Forest (TNF) launched a pilot program to engage middle and high school students in water quality monitoring. Twenty-two 6th through 12th grade students from Downieville Jr./Sr. School participated in the program where they were trained in water quality monitoring practices, collected water quality data at Oregon Creek Day Use Area, analyzed and interpreted the data they collected with SYRCL’s comprehensive River Monitoring Data sets, and learned river etiquette to become River Ambassadors.
Lower Long Bar Restoration Project: Groundbreaking!
We’ve broken ground on our Lower Long Bar Restoration project!
SYRCL’s 2021 Impact Report: People Can Save a River
Each year, SYRCL releases an Impact Report that details the work we have done over the course of the previous year.
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.