The Sierra Fund (TSF) made a huge impact in 2022! A few highlights: Click the link here to read our full 2022 accomplishments recap!
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With over 47,000 abandoned mines throughout the Sierra, The Sierra Fund takes many avenues to advance the cleanup of these sites to protect our health and environment. These abandoned mine lands present hazards from mine waste that can contain arsenic, lead, and mercury as well as physical hazards. A key project in 2022 has been TSF […]
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The Sierra Fund is lucky to have a staff dedicated to serving the Sierra Nevada region. Get to know the staff! Meet Jessica Dyke, our Program Associate. What is your favorite place in the Sierra Nevada and why? Kirkwood and Carson Pass. This area was my refuge from the bustling SF city life for many […]
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The Sierra Fund is lucky to have a staff dedicated to serving the Sierra Nevada region. Get to know the staff! Meet Jenny Michael, our Office Administrator. What is your favorite place in the Sierra Nevada and why? There are so many favorites, but if I have to choose just one, it would be Yosemite […]
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Click here to view The Sierra Fund’s 2021 Annual Report! A Letter from Joan Clayburgh, our Executive Director The Sierra Fund in 2021 went through a major transition, and simultaneously cranked out another year of impressive achievements. We continued making progress using science and advocacy to promote the health and resiliency of the natural environment […]
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The Sierra Fund is lucky to have a staff dedicated to serving the Sierra Nevada region. Get to know the staff! Meet Joan Clayburgh our Executive Director. What is your favorite place in the Sierra Nevada and why? I have no ONE favorite, but oodles of favorites. For this blog I’ll share Roundtop Mountain off […]
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The Sierra Fund is proud to have recently supported the California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project (CHIRP), a non-profit guided by the Nevada City Rancheria Tribal Council, in producing a set of training materials around Cultural Resource Awareness and Sensitivity. These new resources were developed to support partners working on the ancestral homelands of the Nisenan […]
Read MoreThe public was invited to an informational presentation about the Gold Country Coalition EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant. The Sierra Fund hosted a virtual community meeting with the City of Grass Valley in order to disseminate the findings of the work completed. The presentation reported the results of the assessments done on properties impacted by historic mining […]
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The Sierra Fund is pleased to announce the board of directors has hired seasoned conservation leader and long-time friend of the Sierra Nevada, Joan Clayburgh, as their new Executive Director. Her first day in the office is today, November 8th, 2021. Joan brings three decades of conservation leadership experience, having served as The Sierra Nevada […]
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The Sierra Fund is pleased to report that on August 26 the Department of Water Resources (DWR) finished their final review of the Cosumnes, American, Bear, Yuba (CABY) Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Plan update of 2021 and determined that it is consistent with the IRWM Planning Act and the related IRWM Plan Standards contained […]
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Earlier this month the state assembly passed Senate Bill 155 which secures funding for wildfire prevention and forest health programs that was previously promised, but not continuously appropriated, in 2018’s Senate Bill 901 (Dodd). SB 155 also sets aside an additional $1 billion for these programs; funding extends through 2023-2024. The California Legislature furthermore passed […]
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Increasing the pace and scale of mine remediation is vital to transform the toxic legacy of California’s 19th century Gold Rush from destruction into innovation and protection of Sierra Nevada headwaters. The Sierra Fund’s newest report, “Due Diligence in the Sierra Nevada Gold Country: New Tools to Remediate California’s Abandoned Mine Lands,” outlines a strategy to […]
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