The Sierra Spotlight
The Sierra Spotlight, our digital newsroom, draws upon the regional knowledge and expertise of Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) staff to highlight the most important restoration, scientific, and policy events in California’s Sierra-Cascade region.
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Prescribed fire project cuts risk, increases climate resilience in South Yuba Canyon near Nevada City
Funded by the SNC, American Rivers is thinning fuels and using prescribed fire, with the help of control burn experts from Terra Fuego Resource...

The SNC turns 20–much to celebrate, even more to do
A letter from SNC’s Executive Officer Basin Mountain and the Eastern Sierra as seen from Buttermilk Boulders, a location from SNC’s June 2024 Board...

SNC-funded fuel treatments protected Butte County communities from Park Fire
Unburnt trees form a green island around the town of Cohasset within the Park Fire burn scar. Firefighters were able to protect the town thanks to a...

Landscape grant pilot update: HELP at work in Crystal Basin; other areas ready for funding
Members of the Healthy Eldorado Landscape Partnership (HELP) and project funders, including the SNC and CAL FIRE, tour the Crystal Basin in the...

Advancing landscape-scale resilience in the Upper Mokelumne River watershed
Fuel-reduction work taking place across the upper Mokelumne River watershed will help protect communities, forests, and water supplies from...

Weather whiplash in the Sierra-Cascade and the need to accelerate resilience
Winter began in earnest when an atmospheric river drenched Northern California with record-breaking rainfall totals and dropped a thick blanket of...

The SNC awards grant to Nevada County sawmill
Located near the site of the new Alpenglow Timber Sawmill, the communities of Tahoe Donner and Donner Lake are at high risk of damaging wildfire and...

The SNC to host Board meeting and tour in Placer County
Placer County Health & Human Services building. Credit: Placer County. Dec. 11 update: Due to inclement weather conditions, the December 12...