By: Lisa Wallace, Executive Director
Our work is scientific: assessing and monitoring the biology, geology, and hydrology of a site. It’s also managerial: coordinating agencies, consultants and contractors. It’s funding: finding grants, foundations and donors. Finally, it’s educational: alerting people… Read more
By Eben Swain, Program Manager
Application Deadline 5:00 PM March 16, 2018
We do it for the future.
It’s our nature.
We work for the watershed for a better future. Ours. Yours. For Generations to come. We find solutions that… Read more
Lisa Wallace, Executive Director
The Truckee River region—like many places where the beauty of nature draws people who revel in it —is threatened. Fish are declining. Crucial invertebrates are dwindling. Entire meadows are drying up. 150 years of human impact—from… Read more
By: Matt Freitas, Program Manager
Take a drive from Truckee towards Brockway Summit—what sticks with you? The wide expanses of Martis Valley? Long vistas of the Sierra crest? Did you know you drove through a historic wetland as soon… Read more
By Michele Prestowitz, Program Manager
It was that first Truckee River Day in 1996 that spawned today’s Truckee River Watershed Council. Since then thousands of nature-lovers have shown up annually with their buckets, shovels and smiles to take on 100s… Read more
We’re on it!
By Matt Freitas, Program Manager
For more than 20 years, the Truckee River Watershed Council (TRWC) has led hundreds of restoration projects to reverse land-use impacts and restore function to our wetlands and streams. Year by year,… Read more
By Matt Freitas, Program Manager
Non-native invasive plants seem to enjoy our watershed as much as we do. More than 60 of these species are found in our wetlands, streams, and forests. Invasive species displace our native plants and reduce… Read more
Lisa Wallace, Executive Director
The Truckee River region—like many places where the beauty of nature draws people who revel in it —is threatened. Fish are declining. Crucial invertebrates are dwindling. Entire meadows are drying up. 150 years of human impact—from… Read more
Beth Christman, Program Manager
We are seeking to hire a consultant to prepare CEQA documentation for the Sardine Meadows Restoration Project.
Sardine Meadows, located in the Davies Creek watershed north of the Town of Truckee, has a history of disturbance… Read more
