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Posted by jeffpelline on January 12, 2016 · Leave a Comment
SINCE IT BEGAN 32 YEARS AGO, THE SOUTH YUBA RIVER Citizens League has become the nation’s largest single-river grassroots watershed organization with 3,500 members and 1,000 active volunteers. The long-term focus of SYRCL’s advocacy work has to do with restoring wild salmon, now in jeopardy of extinction, to the upper Yuba. “We recognize that salmon […]
Filed under Art · Tagged with advocacy, Bear River watershed, Bridgeport Covered Bridge, Caleb Dardick, Chinock salmon, community, Daguerre Point Dam, education, Englebright Dam, environmentalists, Gary Snyder, restoration, river ambassador program, salmon, salmon tours, San Juan Ridge Mine, San Juan Ridge Taxpayers Association, South Yuba River Citizens League, South Yuba River State Park, SYRCL, Yuba River watershed, Yuba Salmon Now
Posted by jeffpelline on January 12, 2016 · Leave a Comment
IN 1969, CONGRESS CREATED THE LAKE Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as the “voice of Lake Tahoe.” It came after two decades of rapid growth. The South Yuba River—Mother Nature’s other world-class watershed in our region— has been disrupted since the Gold Rush: hydraulic mining, dams, logging and development. Unlike Tahoe, Congress did not come to […]
Filed under Art · Tagged with Amy Irvine, environmentalists, Gary Brechin, Governor Grey Davis, Gregg Shiffner, Imperial San Francisco, Janet Cohen, Linda Miller, Making a Difference, Nevada County Dennis Barry, river, Roger Hicks, Shawn Garvey, South Yuba River, South Yuba River State Park, Stories of the Yuba, SYRCL, UC Berkeley, visit Nevada City, Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
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