by Lisa Wallace, Executive Director
Wetlands can provide ecosystem services such as improving water quality and reducing peak flood flows.
Here’s a link to a short radio piece on the economy and the environment.
When an accident or a type… Read more
by Lisa Wallace, Executive Director
photo: Nevada Museum of Art
The Harrison Exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art, has an eye-catching, toe-tapping set of art pieces of the Sierra Nevada, including the Truckee River watershed.
Helen Mayer Harrison and… Read more
by Lisa Wallace, Executive Director
“We got so much work done at Perazzo Meadows!”
“The volunteers were incredible, we could have completed the whole Corps Yard site!”
“We collected the data on the entire reach on Squaw Creek this year… Read more
Learn about how Truckee-area waters are being protected for invasive species at a public forum Thursday, July 28, 2011.
Multiple sampling techniques have confirmed microscopic juvenile quaggas are present in Lahontan Reservoir southeast of Fernley, said Rich Haskins, deputy director… Read more
by Lisa Wallace, Executive Director
Last week Beth Christman, Director of Restoration Programs, co-led a tour of our Perazzo Meadows restoration project for the California chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration.
Two phases of the Perazzo Meadows Restoration project… Read more
by Lisa Wallace, Executive Director
We just received the announcement from the Truckee Donner PUD and their partners:
The Truckee Donner Public Utility District (TDPUD), Northstar Community Services District (NSCSD) and Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) are partnering to develop… Read more
by Lisa Wallace, Executive Director
Beth Christman, our Director of Restoration Programs, is working with our partner The Nature Conservancy on two restoration projects at Independence Lake. Both projects improve fish habitat for the native Lahontan cutthroat trout. For the… Read more
by Lisa Wallace, Executive Director.
So far the most destructive aquatic invasives are not in our local lakes and reservoirs in California. But, preliminary reports show both quagga and zebra mussels downstream in Lahontan and Rye Patch Reservoirs.
We do… Read more
by Lisa Wallace, Executive Director
This morning I heard Anne Bryant, co-founder of the Bear League, talk about the importance of bears in our ecosystems and the importance of living with bears. Anne exploded three myths:
Myth 1: Bears are… Read more
