The 27th edition of Tree Rings was published in January of 2016. The theme of this edition was “Agriculture in the Yuba Watershed.”
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Our traditional Saturday morning wild mushroom hunt and identification will wrap up with an afternoon of displayed discoveries and identification workshops. Please arrive by 9am to register and sign-up for a foray group.
Bring a lunch and be prepared to walk in the damp woods. Also useful: collection basket, waxed paper bags, knife, and hand lens. We will drive to sites 15 to 30 minutes away, and some may hunt on site. Please carpool and be open to sharing a ride with other attendants.
Following the foray, wild mushroom soup and other wild-crafted food will be for sale and we will present the following speakers.
More details and driving instructions available at our events calendar.
Sunday we host the 5th annual Wild Mushroom Exposition. The Exposition is filled with presentations, interactive displays, and workshops based on our seasonal Sierra mushrooms. Stop by any time between 11 am and 4pm. There will be wild-crafted food concessions, mushroom merchandise available for sale, and the following speakers will present.
More details and driving instructions available at our events calendar.
Saturday – $20 general; $15 for YWI members; children and full-time students free
Sunday – $10 general; $8 for YWI members; children and full-time students free
Email danmadrone@gmail.com or call 530-575-6192
More details and driving instructions available at our events calendar.
Come help maintain the Bald Mountain Fuel Break that was originally built in 1995.
Meet at the North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center at 9am to caravan and carpool to the site.
The Yuba Watershed Institute’s Save the Big Trees Work Day will take place on November 7, 2015 in and adjacent to a McNab Cypress forest, an area of unique geology, botany, and natural history. We will be reducing fuels and protecting the unique forest of the Bald Mountain Parcel of the San Juan Ridge ‘Inimim Forest. Several unique plant species are found here, including the Brewer’s oak, birchleaf mountain mahogany, silk tassel, creeping sage, and McNab cypress. The rare butterfly, Muir’s Hairstreak, feeds on McNab cypress in the Sierra Nevada. The coast horned lizard and California thrasher have also been observed on Bald Mountain.
Bring water, snacks, work gloves, loppers, a rake, and earplugs.
We will be removing and stacking manzanita.
A chipper will be present to process the materials.
Sponsored by the Yuba Watershed Institute and the Bureau of Land Management.
Lunch will be provided by the Ananda Center for Alternative Living around 1:30 pm.
The YWI is currently accepting submissions for our annual journal, Tree Rings.
Please share your stories of life as a farmer, homesteader, or gardener! We welcome well-researched perspectives and personal narratives related to the cultivation of local food systems and agrobiodiversity, the history and the future of agriculture in the Yuba Watershed, challenges and successes stories about growing food (and other crops) in the mountains, innovative or creative agricultural techniques you’ve experimented with at your homestead, and other agricultural-related topics that inspire you. We also always welcome natural history stories of the ‘Inimim, as well as art and poetry reflecting your visions and contemplations of living sustainably in the forest.
We are requesting art, letters, poems, articles, and notes related to this topic.
Articles and letters should be limited to 1,000 words or less.
This edition will be edited by Daniel Nicholson and Corinne Munger.