The YWI is excited to announce that we have been awarded a Prop 1 grant from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy for our work making the forests of the San Juan Ridge more resilient to drought, fire, climate change, and bark beetles!
Check out our new ‘Inimim Forest web map to see some of the data we’ve been compiling to help us with a revision of the ‘Inimim Forest Management Plan.
Here is the schedule of events for the 20th Annual Yuba Watershed Fungus Foray and Wild Mushroom Exposition. Visit www.yubawatershedinstitute.org for tickets and event info.
Saturday, December 9th
9:00 – 9:15 • Register and sign-up for a foray group. Please arrive by 9:00 to ensure your place in a group.
9:15 – 9:45 • Introduction to the Foray and Basic Forms of Fungi and Where to Find Them
10:00 – 2:00 • Wild mushroom hunt
2:00 – 3:00 • Fungi of Colorado/ North American Mycoflora Project – Andy Wilson
3:00 – 4:00 • Fungi of the Yuba Pass – Douglas Smith
4:00 – 4:30 • DNA Sequencing Described – Damon Tighe
Sunday December 10
Sunday we host the 7th annual Wild Mushroom Exposition. The Exposition will be filled with presentations, interactive displays, and workshops based on our seasonal Sierra mushrooms. Stop by anytime between 11 am and 4pm. There will be wild-crafted food concessions, mushroom merchandise available for sale, break-away mini hikes on campus (weather dependent), and lectures and workshops that celebrate fungi.
11:30 – 12:00 • Citizen Science With iNaturalist – Damon Tighe
12:00 – 1:00 • History of Truffle Cultivation in California – Todd Spanier
1:00- 1:30 • Cultivation of Fungi Overview – Christopher Hodge
1:45 -2:45 • Medicinal Mushrooms – Christopher Hobbs
3:00- 3:30 • Overview of Discoveries of the Weekend – TBD
We need a few more volunteers!
We are looking for a few more volunteers to make the event run smoothly, especially on Sunday afternoon. If you are interested and available, please contact chris@yubawatershedinstitute.org. Volunteers will get free admission to the event.
Sponsored by SPD Markets, Natural Selection, Briar Patch Co-op, and Erickson Woodworking.
The 20th Annual Yuba Watershed Fungus Foray and Wild Mushroom Exposition is coming up on December 9-10. We are seeking volunteers to help make this year’s Foray a success!
Helpers will be needed on both days for the following tasks:
– Set up and break down
– Parking management
– Concessions and merchandise tables
– Children’s activities
– Food servers
– Soup making
Volunteers will receive free admission to the event. If you are interested, please contact Chris Friedel at chris@yubawatershedinstitute.com.
The Yuba Watershed Institute (YWI) has organized a workday to help save large legacy trees from wildfire. The trees are located in the ‘Inimim Forest, the community forest of the San Juan Ridge.
One of the YWI’s goals is to preserve and restore a component of old forest habitat in our watershed. The ‘Inimim Forest has remnant stands of very large trees, and we will be clearing small vegetation from their drip lines.
The workday is scheduled for Saturday, November 18, 2017 from 9 am to 3 pm. Meet at the North Columbia Schoolhouse (17894 Tyler Foote Crossing Rd, Nevada City, CA 95959) to carpool to the worksite.
Bring work gloves, clippers, handsaws, water and some snacks. A picnic will follow the workday.
Forest ecologist Dr. Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman will explain what she has been discovering on the ‘Inimim Forest during recent surveys conducted as part of an update to the Bureau of Land Management’s management plan for this area.
For further information call Bob Erickson at 530-292-3777