Sierra Spotlight
The Sierra Spotlight is our digital newsroom. We share timely information about the Sierra-Cascade and efforts to restore and protect this vital region for all Californians.
Prescribed fire project cuts risk, increases climate resilience in South Yuba Canyon near Nevada City
Share this: Funded by the SNC, American Rivers is thinning fuels and using prescribed fire, with the help of control burn experts from...
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
Share this: Unburnt trees form a green island around the town of Cohasset within the Park Fire burn scar. Firefighters were able to...
Landscape grant pilot update: HELP at work in Crystal Basin; other areas ready for funding
Share this: Members of the Healthy Eldorado Landscape Partnership (HELP) and project funders, including the SNC and CAL FIRE, tour the...
Advancing landscape-scale resilience in the Upper Mokelumne River watershed
Share this: Fuel-reduction work taking place across the upper Mokelumne River watershed will help protect communities, forests, and water...
Weather whiplash in the Sierra-Cascade and the need to accelerate resilience
Share this: Winter began in earnest when an atmospheric river drenched Northern California with record-breaking rainfall totals and...
The SNC awards grant to Nevada County sawmill
Share this: Located near the site of the new Alpenglow Timber Sawmill, the communities of Tahoe Donner and Donner Lake are at high risk...
Prop 68-funded fuelbreak reduces fire risk in Calaveras County communities & watersheds
Share this: Funded by Proposition 68, the Pine Ridge-Summit Level Fuelbreak is a 150-foot wide, six-mile-long buffer that runs up and...