SIERRA INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT
4438 MAIN STREET/POB 11, TAYLORSVILLE, CA 959830011 www.sierrainstitute.us

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Sierra Institute works to build thriving rural communities while promoting resilient and productive forests that are valued for the full suite of services they provide. The Institute strives to promote social, environmental, and economic approaches that are sustainable from human and ecological perspectives. Specific areas of work include social and environmental research, facilitation and capacity building of rural communities and collaborative groups, and education and policy development at state and federal levels.

In 2019, Sierra Institute continued its work coordinating, facilitation and generally advancing the South Lassen Watershed Group project that involves work with over 25 groups focused on restoring 850,000 acres that includes federal, private industrial and non-industrial land encompassing three of the last free-running salmonid streams in the State of California and the headwaters of the state water project that serves 25 million people and three-quarters of a million acres of agricultural land. Sierra Institute staff conducted a variety of analyses on project sites to enable restoration work to advance. Sierra Institute successfully ran four youth crews conducting restoration projects and one sawyer crew that used hand saws to reduce fire risks as it thinned wilderness lands in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Sierra Institute won the volunteer of the year award from the National Park Service for this work. Additionally, Sierra Institute advanced clean-up of a former mill site and plann

Community based Natural Resource Management: The Sierra Institute's Community-based Natural Resource Management program includes on-the-ground resource management, applied research, and capacity-building work to promote resilient forest ecosystems that benefit rural communities. Current projects include: facilitation of several forest collaboratives; coordination of a statewide, peer-learning network of forest collaboratives; and, partnering to complete planning and implementation of forest and meadow restoration projects with multiple National Forests and Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Rural Community Development: Sierra Institutes Rural Community Development program is focused on maintaining and building vibrant forest communities in California and beyond. The program focuses on: monitoring socioeconomic health and capacity of forest communities; working directly with communities to advance socioeconomic health and business creation associated with utilization of material that flows from forest and watershed restoration; and working with disadvantaged and underserved communities to build their capacity to participate in decisions affecting them and build sustainable natural resource-based economies.

Wood Utilization : This program provides organization and capacity building to advance utilization of woodybiomass across California. SI purchased and are cleaning up the old Louisiana Pacific property in Crescent Mill's to develop a Wood Utilization campus for biomass product business and development to reduce fire hazards in local Forests. In collaboration with Plumas County we constructed a Cross Laminated Timber building that housed the biomass boiler that heats the Plumas county annex with wood chips from the local forest, stored on our Crescent Mills property with support from the California Energy Commission, Environmental Protection Agency and Sierra Nevada Conservancy.

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