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2010
For minutes prior to 2010, please feel free to contact Emily Creely, Watershed Coordinator, at
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and she will be happy to connect you to these. Additionally, past minutes can be accessed at the Chester Library - the ABWAC Kiosk.
ABWAC Minutes - January (PDF)
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Quincy Meeting Kicks-off Community Health Series
Indian Valley Record - Mona Hill - November 2, 2011
Plumas and Sierra CountyPublic Health Departments, the Sierra Institute for Community & Environment, Greenville Rancheria and the county's three hospitals, collectively known as the Northern Sierra Collaborative Health Network (NSCHN), hosted the first in a series of community meetings Wednesday Oct 26 at the Plumas-Sierra County Fairgrounds. Read More...
Grebes Breeding on Local Lakes
Chester Progressive - Plumas Audubon Society - Aug 10, 2011
By this point in mid-summer, western and Clark's grebes have been on our local lakes for a few months. These large water birds have distinctive red eyes and are quite common in our region. Read More...
Experts Weigh in on Almanor Cloud-Seeding
Indian Valley Record - Kate West - June 8, 2011
The forum hosted by the Almanor Basin Watershed Advisory Committee (ABWAC) Wednesday May 25 fielded a panel of six scientists in response to community concerns about cloud seeding in the Lake Almanor Basin. Read More...
Telemedicine Brings Experts to Rural Patients
Indian Valley Record - Trish Welsh Taylor - September 7, 2011
Seeing your doctor on a screen sounds impersonal, but it is one way to get doctors to patients who would otherwise not see a doctor at all, or risk traveling while suffering symptoms in bad weather. Eastern Plumas Health Care's Mark Schweyer, MD, is so excited about the new telemedicine program he doesn't talk about much else. Read More...
Friday Night for Teens Continues
Indian Valley Record - August 31, 2011
Karaoke has been added to Friday Nights for Teens courtesy of Indian Valley resident John Shower and his family, in loving memory of his late wife, Marty. Together they volunteered many hours to raise funds for the Indian Valley Community Center in Greenville. Teens participating in Friday Nights for Teens are now singing up a storm! Read More...
Assessment of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (2006)
This assessment analyzes the outcomes of Titles II and III of the 2000 legislation that stabilized payments to forest counties for their roads and schools, and was the first national legislation requiring citizen collaboration to advance natural resource projects. The legislation enabled citizen Resource Advisory Committees to recommend funding for forest and watershed restoration projects. The study analyzed this national "experiment" and influenced the debate in Congress for and shaped re-authorization of the legislation passed in 2008.
Farm Worker and Community Well-being in Response to Land Fallowing: Progress Report, Local Entity 2003-2005 (2006) (13 MB PDF)
In 2003, Southern California's Imperial Irrigation District and the San Diego County Water Authority reached the largest agriculture-to-urban water transfer agreement in US history. While the agreement holds promise for addressing environmental and human needs, it also means idle farmlands and lost jobs. This report reviews the third-party socioeconomic mitigation program and process.
Tribal Economic Development: Building with Strengths and Confronting Challenges (693 KB – PDF)
The Intertribal Timber Council supported this report that examines six tribal communities and highlights key economic and community development lessons for Indian communities. The six case studies are drawn from the Sierra Institute’s assessment of the Northwest Economic Adjustment Initiative. An updated version of the paper by authors, Beth Rose Middleton and Jonathan Kusel, is available in Economic Development Quarterly 21(2):165-178 published in 2007.
Native plants in California's Owens River Valley: Integrating Paiute traditional ecological knowledge & Western botany through participatory research (177.1 KB - PDF)
This 2004 report describes a participatory research project in which Bishop and Big Pine Paiute tribal members document their traditional ecological knowledge of native plants and link their knowledge with Western science.
The Maidu Stewardship Project: Blending of two knowledge systems in forest management (2004) (189.3 KB - PDF)
This document describes a participatory research project in which members of a Native American community are monitoring outcomes of traditional management of oaks and other plants important for traditional foods, medicines, and material culture on a national forest stewardship site. The project integrates monitoring priorities of Western science and Maidu traditional ecological knowledge.
Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Natural Resources Restoration System in Humboldt County: A partial view (2004) (293.9 KB - PDF)
This is one of the first studies to report how restoration of the environment contributes to the local and regional economy. Specifically, this paper discusses the restoration sector in Humboldt County, California, and its contribution to socioeconomic well-being. Humboldt County is at the leading edge of restoration practices and serves as a model for how restoration work can be accomplished and its benefits.
Sharing Stewardship of the Harvest: Report on the 2003 Crescent Lake Mushroom Monitoring Project
This report describes a grassroots participatory research project that engages diverse, low-income harvesters in monitoring the social, cultural, and ecological dimensions of the matsutake mushroom harvest in Crescent Lake, Oregon.
Sharing Stewardship of the Harvest: Building capacity among low-income non-timber forest product harvesters
This 2003 summary report introduces the process of multi-party monitoring and how on-the-ground participatory research is resulting in new avenues of participation among low-income, culturally diverse mushroom harvesters in land management decision-making.
Report on the Regional Forum of the Latino Forest Workers Leadership Group presents the results of a participatory needs assessment and demonstrates the formation of a leadership group among Latino forest workers from California, Oregon, and Washington. Reports from the 2002 and 2003 forums are available in printed format in English or Spanish.
Northwest Economic Adjustment Initiative Assessment, Final Report (2003)
This report analyzes the effectiveness of the Initiative implemented with President Clinton's 1993 Forest Plan to help address the socioeconomic impacts associated with the changes in federal timber policies. The Sierra Institute conducted case studies of communities and evaluated the legislation and effectiveness of the $1.2 billion program.
Against the Odds: (Re-) Building Community Through Forestry on the Hoopa Reservation (72 KB - PDF)
This document describes a case study in community forestry on the Hoopa Indian Reservation in northwestern California.
The Integration of Community Wellbeing and Forest Health in the Pacific Northwest: A Case Study of the Columbia Pacific Resource and Conservation District Council (568 KB - PDF)
This case study describes how communities in southwestern Washington struggle with development that ties community well-being to forest health in a context of changing regional economies.
A Report on All-Party Monitoring and Lessons Learned from the Pilot Projects (1.3 MB - PDF)
This report describes a process called all-party monitoring, later implemented in federal legislation, and summarizes three pilot projects selected to understand the potential and limitations of all-party monitoring.
The Lead Partnership Group's Principles of Community-Based Forestry (PDF)
This 2001 document offers principles for process, policy and institutions, monitoring, stewardship, and reinvestment from a consortium of bioregional, watershed, and community-based groups.
The Westwood Community Survey 2000: A Report of Results (1 MB - PDF)
This report surveys residents in an historically timber-dependent town about what they value and what they want for their community. The survey follows a precedent-setting land use initiative that divided the community and offered a foundation for discussion and constructive engagement concerning land-use decisions.
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