By Lisa Wallace, Executive Director The Truckee River region—where the beauty of nature draws people who revel in it—is threatened. A damaging past (from mining, grazing and logging) coupled with a tenuous future (from drought, development, and climate change) impacts… Read more
By Michele Prestowitz, Program Manager
Calling all nature-lovers! Join us for Truckee River Day, Sunday October 14th! Put on some sturdy boots, dig out your work gloves, and grab some friends. Together we will work to restore the Truckee River,… Read more
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
