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The Sierra Fund’s 2023 Year End Accomplishments Piece

December 18, 2023

The Sierra Fund (TSF) made a huge impact in 2023!

Click the link here to read our 2023 Year End Accomplishments Piece!

A few highlights:

  • We advanced the Grizzly Creek Diggins project that demonstrates the restoration of a hydraulic mine site that integrates fuel load reduction and soil health objectives using nature-based approaches to restore watershed resiliency and improve water quality. We hope this will be the first of many.
  • We co-hosted the first Sierra Nevada Tribal Summit on forest health– with co-leaders from United Auburn Indian Community Tribal Preservation Department, Todd’s Valley Miwok-Maidu Cultural Foundation, and UC Davis Institute for the Environment. Tribal members shared their visions for the future to rebuild a world that is resilient and responsive to living cultures, environment, and non-human living relations.
  • We led and completed a benefit-cost analysis with World Resources Institute and Blue Forest Conservation that showed for every $1 invested upstream in hydraulic mine restoration water agencies could save $2.9 dollars downstream in water infrastructure maintenance. Wowza!! The economics are clearly behind our vision and this study is turning heads.
The Sierra Fund’s 2023 Year End Accomplishments Piece

The Sierra Fund (TSF) made a huge impact in 2023!

Click the link here to read our 2023 Year End Accomplishments Piece!

A few highlights:

  • We advanced the Grizzly Creek Diggins project that demonstrates the restoration of a hydraulic mine site that integrates fuel load reduction and soil health objectives using nature-based approaches to restore watershed resiliency and improve water quality. We hope this will be the first of many.
  • We co-hosted the first Sierra Nevada Tribal Summit on forest health– with co-leaders from United Auburn Indian Community Tribal Preservation Department, Todd’s Valley Miwok-Maidu Cultural Foundation, and UC Davis Institute for the Environment. Tribal members shared their visions for the future to rebuild a world that is resilient and responsive to living cultures, environment, and non-human living relations.
  • We led and completed a benefit-cost analysis with World Resources Institute and Blue Forest Conservation that showed for every $1 invested upstream in hydraulic mine restoration water agencies could save $2.9 dollars downstream in water infrastructure maintenance. Wowza!! The economics are clearly behind our vision and this study is turning heads.