Sierra Institute for Community and Environment
Originally operating in the back of a winery in Westwood, California, The Sierra Institute, formerly known as Forest Community Research, relocated to Taylorsville, California in 1996. The Sierra Institute works with rural people, from newly arrived immigrants to long-time county residents, along with organizations and government agencies to design and facilitate processes that help us understand and build collaboration for sustainable community development and stewardship of our natural resources. We have a diverse project set which includes leading educational natural resources tours, collaborating with the local high school to expose students to natural resources, and convening health partners in the county to increase services. We work hard to bridge what we learn through these local projects to what is happening in state and national policy-making.
Research, education, and community collaboration are the tools of our trade. Our work ranges from researching the outcomes of a national law on rural communities, to leading tours on the land to showcase rural people’s involvement in taking care of forests, meadows and waterways, to facilitating assessments and bilingual dialogues about health care, to bringing updated telemedicine equipment to rural communities, to testifying in the halls of Congress.
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What's happening in and around Sierra Institute
Fuel or Fire...Options for Using Biomass in Indian Valley
On Tuesday, February 21, about 30 residents of Indian Valley met to hear and discuss the preliminary results of a forest biomass transportation and value-added market optimization project. Future opportunities for future local biomass utilization in Indian Valley and Plumas County were also discussed. Read more about what happened at this meeting.
View from McConnell Foundation's Lema Ranch
On February 15th, Sierra Institute hosted the California Woody Renewable Summit at Lema Ranch in Redding, California. There were approximately forty in attendance. Read more...
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A Land Management project in eastern Shasta County got a $605,000 boost from the federal government Thursday - the first installment under a program that will total $12.5-million spent in the Burney-Hat Creek basins by 2019. Read more... |
On February 3, 2012, Jonathan Kusel was asked to testify before the Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forest, and Public Lands. Read more... |
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The results from the Town Hall Meetings for the 2012 Health Assessment are in. Read more... |
The Center of Forestry has announced their tours for 2012...all of your favorite tours and more are back again! Read more...
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