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A new UC Berkeley study points to an unexpected ally in the fight for clean water: licensed cannabis farms. Where legal cultivation takes hold, unlicensed grows fall away.
A downstream neighbor of ours is rebuilding fish habitat on the lower Yuba River. It is the kind of hands-on river work we watch closely from the American River canyons.
A nine-member partnership is treating roughly 13,755 acres in the North Yuba watershed this field season, the kind of landscape-scale wildfire work that matters to every Sierra canyon, including our own.
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy's current funding newsletter lists roughly 50 open grants. Here are the forest, fire, and watershed opportunities that matter most for the American River canyon.
On June 3, 2026, the Sierra Nevada Alliance and partners flew elected officials, agency leaders, and water managers over the American River watershed to show water supply, wildfire risk, and public lands from the air.
State and regional partners are racing to keep an aggressive invasive mussel out of Sierra reservoirs.
A new round of Sierra Nevada Conservancy grants pairs early-action fuel reduction with recreation and tourism investment. It is the kind of work that keeps our foothill watersheds healthier and more resilient.
Volunteers cleared roughly two miles of abandoned barbed wire fencing at Clover Valley Preserve, reopening the ground for freer wildlife movement.
Placer Land Trust helped return 308 forested acres near Foresthill to the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe, protected forever by a conservation easement.
Placer Land Trust has transferred 308 acres near Foresthill, known in Nisenan as Hym hym hop', to the Colfax-Todds Valley Consolidated Tribe in its second Land Back project.
As the race for governor takes shape, a coalition of California waterkeepers is asking candidates to back a plan for modernizing how the state manages its water. The priorities matter for every watershed, including our own.
A 41-acre stretch of the Lower American River in Rancho Cordova, inside a Wild and Scenic River corridor, is on the market. What happens next matters for the whole river.