Sierra Institute for Community and Environment

SI promotes healthy and sustainable forests and watersheds by investing in the well-being of rural communities.

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

In 2022, @nationalforests supported @SierraInst P-CREW Youth Corps Program in improving health and resilience across the landscape within riparian, aspen, and meadow communities along Robbers Creek in Lassen National Forest @forestservice

#NFFGranteesAreGreat #NFFHealthyForests

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

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[ClimateNow @weareclimatenow]

NEW PODCAST🎙The cost of removing 1 tonne of CO2 has economic challenges for carbon capture & storage. What if it was done with hydrogen fuel? Tune in with George Peridas of @Livermore_Lab, @JoshStolaroff of @motehydrogen and Jonathan Kusel of @SierraInst https://t.co/QkHmc2ZZa6

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

This mill will bring jobs to the community and will offer lower cost lumber for rebuilding, reducing the burden on residents who may not otherwise be able to afford building costs. We are partnering with local 4th generation logging company J&C Enterprises who will run the mill.

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

With tens of thousands of trees burned around our valley, what better way to use them than to rebuild the town of Greenville? We're excited to announce that thanks to @CAsWatershed funding, we have purchased a sawmill to be located at our Crescent Mills site.

[Joe Brizzolara @BrizzolaraJoe]

Today on Short-term Recall, @KLBPFM’s limited-series on CA’s upcoming gubernatorial #recallelection :

I’ll be talking to Dr. Jonathan Kusel @SierraInst about wildfires in CA. I ask about Newsom’s track record and Republicans’ calls for logging deregulation.

We’re on in 30!

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

This Dixie Fire is making sure to find its way to any green forest we have left in the northern Sierra. Impacts of this fire on communities, forests, watersheds, forestry workforce, wood processing capacity, and beyond will largely re-define our work moving forward.

[FRC President @FRCPrez]

A perspective on #DixieFire
Top picture
-7/19 looking due west of Quincy
Then fire moved north (middle pic)
-7/22 looking due north of Quincy
Now it is on our east (bottom pic)
-8/30 looking due East of Quincy
Yes in the past month it has moved up and around the town 180 degrees

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

Check out this op-ed by our Executive Director in the Sacramento Bee in which he emphasizes that the Dixie Fire has statewide implications--its impacts to critical watersheds, the power grid, and air quality will be felt far and wide.
https://t.co/Mfh1soRrCn

[Project:Camp @ProjectCampLA]

1/2 Thank you to everyone who has supported Project:Camp so far. Last week, we were able to provide a camp in Quincy for four days for 39 kids impacted by the #DixieFire.

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

we are committed to supporting healing and rebuilding efforts as our community navigates next steps. Stay tuned for relief opportunities to support our Plumas County communities in the path to recovery. (3/3)

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

It has been a challenging, saddening, and stressful month for us amidst the Dixie Fire. We've lost communities of Greenville, Indian Falls, and many more structures around our beautiful Indian Valley. Many of our staff members and community partners have lost their homes. (1/2)

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

Hundreds of thousands of acres of forests and watershed have burned, including man projects in the South Lassen Watershed Group boundary. We send our deepest condolences to everyone affected by this fire and others across the West, and (2/3)

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

Lorraine is from Taylorsville – a town impacted by the Dixie Fire. Her love for cooking & her community led her to open Hanson’s Homemade Pies, and when the fire hit, she began cooking for neighbors. Now, WCK is supporting her & Taylorsville by bringing lunch & dinner each day.

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

Located in the heart of Greenville, Evergreen Market thankfully survived the fire. The manager has been supporting her community by assembling boxes of dry goods for people remaining in the area. With hot meals, fruit, and water, WCK helped distribute the 📦 #ChefsForCalifornia

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

At the Taylorsville Fire Hall...Thank you @WCKitchen for your amazing work!

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

Every day, the WCK Relief Team takes hot, nourishing meals prepared by restaurants in Quincy to people impacted by the Dixie Fire. Deliveries are made twice a day, for lunch & dinner. In Taylorsville, the community meets at the Fire Station to pick up food. #ChefsForCalifornia

[Sierra Nevada Conservancy @CAsWatershed]

Excellent, sobering, conversation re: human, water, and ecological impacts of the Dixie Fire with @wildland_zko, @plumasnews Meg Upton, and @SRodd_CPR.

Catch a replay if you can.

https://t.co/s8P5VaR2Jz

[Sierra Institute for Community and Environment @SierraInst]

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