March 23, 2026 (Yuba County) I was lucky enough to visit with Shaun Clarke on the Yuba Rim Trailhead last Friday (March 20, 2026). Both the Bear and Yuba River watersheds intersect with land held by Bear Yuba Land Trust. BYLT oversees 19,000 acres-plus of land in the Northern Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Recreation on […]
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March 23, 2026: Yuba City At the Yuba College Sutter Extension, room 101, Dean Michael Bagley and I held a recruitment drive aimed at two audiences. Per the grant agencies of We Prosper Together and Valley Vision, our hunt for interns was to make a turn toward “disinvested communities” and “high school” students. I am not ashamed to
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March 4, 2026 Prior to California’s Gold Rush, even as the land was part of Mexico’s northern frontier, English-language newspapers began to open for business. Most of these early papers were headquartered in San Francisco, but a few trekked inland past Benicia onward to the delta where a small settlement had taken root on the
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Yesterday, 17 February 2026, Dr Joe presented to ten students at their weekly Science Club meeting. Korey Champe and Jeff Stollberg provided commentary along the way. All in all, students were encouraged to sign up for the summer internship (paid, BTW) and seemed receptive. Dr Champe reinforced how our certifications in Water Management and Soil
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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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January 9, 20206 – It’s no secret, the southern portion of the Yuba River faced a century and a half or more of abuse at the hands of gold, progress, and residential development. For decades, solutions to human coexistence with the South Yuba River have been called for by a myriad of concerned citizens, organizations,
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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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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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9 December 2025 – I had a great conversation yesterday with Jason Landers and Shaun Clarke, both representing Bear Yuba Land Trust. Again, it’s the creation of a job pipeline, the goal for Yuba College, that appealed to Jason and Shaun. In fact, they are currently searching for an “Engagement Manager” and not finding folks
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