Lower Yuba River Accord Gets a 25-Year Extension

January 27, 2026 Fact: In the State of California, water is GOLD!!! The item that follows? People fight over gold, and that includes what comes out of the Yuba River.  Additional truths? Fights over water, i.e., CALIFORNIA GOLD, ended up in court systems – county, State, and Federal. There’s a whole historical backlog of these court battles stretching back

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Our First Recruitment Event

OREGON HOUSE, CA, Jan 6, 2026: — Community members from across Yuba County (and beyond) gathered at the Alcouffe Center in Oregon House. The draw was Yuba College as they introduced a new summer internship designed to prepare students for careers in natural resources and outdoor stewardship. Yuba College presented exciting, college-credit–earning opportunities connected to

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Supervisor Bradford Encourages Camptonville’s Biomass Facility

Yuba County Supervisor Gary Bradford recently published an op-ed about the need for California’s continued biomass infrastructure in Cal Matters (December 22, 2025). The supervisor pointed out that biomass electric generating facilities exist as a critical tool for wildfire prevention, necessary for promoting climate resilience. Over half of Yuba County is forested. Unfortunately, past forestry practices place the

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One Photograph, One Inflicted River

Ah, that old cliché, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Recently, I came across a photograph of the South Yuba River snapped by NASA’s ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer). There are way more than a thousand words embedded in the below photograph. [story continues…] This satellite-rendered image was snapped in 2001,

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