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Intro to Forest Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Sierra College, Rocklin Campus, Rocklin, CA

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A fanned, overlapping spread of eleven past Tree Rings journal covers, issues #20 through #30, showing pen-and-ink drawings, a linocut of a mountain lion, and a collage of autumn leaves
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Tree Rings #31 Wants Your Words and Art

The Yuba Watershed Institute's community journal is gathering essays, poems, drawings, photos, and wildlife sightings for issue #31, its first in five years. The theme: how you relate to the natural world around you. All ages welcome.

Sierra Commons and Sierra Business Council flyer for the Intro to Forest Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, November 7–8, 2026, at Sierra College Rocklin Campus, over a photo of a sunlit forest
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Free Forest Entrepreneurship Bootcamp Nov. 7–8 at Sierra College

Lynne Westerfield, YWI Landscape Resilience Project Manager
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Welcome Lynne Westerfield, Our New Landscape Resilience Project Manager

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Tree Rings

Essays, poetry, art, and science from the Yuba Watershed. Thirty issues spanning three decades of community voices.

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Tree Rings 30 - 'Sheltering in Place'
2021
Tree Rings 29
2019
Tree Rings 28
2017
Tree Rings 27 - 'Agriculture in the Yuba Watershed'
2016
Tree Rings 26
2015

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