Nevada City: Ride Fast, Live Slow
Nevada City, California: Amgen Tour of California Stage 2 (May 11, 2015). The following 30 second commercial is running on NBC during the Amgen Tour of California broadcast. Original song “I Won’t Give Up” by Ishaan Reyna. Downtown Nevada City video footage by Joel Sauter. Edited by Greg Whatley of Mountain Event Productions. California’s best […]
Damnation film to screen at Nevada Theatre
The South Yuba River Citizens League’s Wild & Scenic Film Festival and American Rivers bring you a screening of the film DamNation followed by a discussion on Yuba salmon as part of the Nevada Theater film series on July 20, 2014. Funds raised benefit American Rivers & SYRCL’s Yuba Salmon Now Campaign. This powerful film […]
New Yuba River e-book available at iTunes
A slim chapbook of poetry and prose with images from the Yuba River Watershed by Sierra Nevada writer, Pamela Biery has just been released on the iTunes Store. Swimming Into Sunsets: Writing & Photographs Inspired by the Yuba River is optimized for tablet mixed media viewing and reading. “The Yuba River can be seen as […]
Yuba River Poems & Prose: An ebook by local writer Pamela Biery
Pamela Biery is a local freelance writer. Her writing has been published by Sierra Heritage, Sierra magazine (the Sierra Club), Orion blog, Crosscut and Sacramento News & Review. Pamela’s poem Epicurean Boughs appeared in The California Poetry Society’s Quarterly. Now Pamela has written a digital chapbook, Yuba Poems & Prose, that will be out in […]
Wild & Scenic Film Festival on January 9-12
EACH JANUARY, THE FOOTHILLS HOSTS one of the nation’s premier environmental film festivals. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, presented by the South Yuba River Citizens League, draws top filmmakers, celebrities, leading activists and world adventurers to Nevada City and Grass Valley. The 12th annual festival takes place Thurs.-Sun., January 9-12, largely at historic venues […]
How SYRCL protects the South Yuba River
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” —Gary Snyder NOBODY SAID IT BETTER, AND NOBODY KNOWS BETTER than this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, whose home is the South Yuba River watershed. But some people don’t treat it like home. Despite its awesome beauty, the South Yuba has been threatened by dams and development, […]
SYRCL’s 16th Yuba River Cleanup is September 21
What the beautiful photos and colorful paintings of our beloved Yuba River fail to show is the thousands of pounds of garbage left behind by careless visitors. So for the 16th consecutive year, on Saturday, September 21st, SYRCL seeks to once again unite the community for the Annual Yuba River Cleanup & Restoration Day. We […]
SYRCL’s wine and beer tasting fundraiser on April 20: “Wild for the Yuba”
The South Yuba River Citizens League, the local nonprofit dedicated to uniting the community to protect and restore the Yuba River, invites you to get “Wild for the Yuba” at their 3rd annual wine and beer tasting fundraiser happening Saturday, April 20, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Grass Valley Veterans Hall. This event not only […]
More than 4,500 tickets sold at Wild & Scenic Film Festival
More than 4,500 tickets were sold to the 11th annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival that took over Nevada City and Grass Valley this past weekend. About 120 filmmakers and special guests graced us with their presence and added value to the event’s content. In addition, art from more than 80 talented artists adorned the […]
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