South Yuba River Citizens League

SYRCL’s Quiz Night is on March 19th at The Wild Eye Pub in Grass Valley! https://buff.ly/t6GaMoj Started in 2002, Quiz Night is the annual fundraiser for SYRCL’s Youth Environmentalist of the Year scholarship and its year-round River Education programs. Tickets to Quiz Night are $20 and are available on our website: https://buff.ly/t6GaMoj We encourage you to get your team together (no more than five people) to show up and show off from 5:00–9:00pm at The Wild Eye Pub located at 535 Mill St, Grass Valley. Doors open at 5pm and trivia begins at 6:30pm. In addition to a full bar, The Wild Eye Pub -- @wild.eye.pub -- makes fresh, farm-to-table foods using seasonal produce from local, regional, sustainable, and organic farmers, vintners, brewers, & food makers. Their healthy, real food is sourced from humane ranchers, farmers, and suppliers.

At SYRCL’s 23rd annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival, the films Mollie’s Pack and Among the Wolves connected audiences with wolf stories from Wyoming to Russia. Meanwhile, California wolves continue to roam south, likely into the upper reaches of the Yuba River watershed. Let’s check in with the wildlife continuing to inspire in our own backyard. https://buff.ly/QjRsxcP

WHERE IN THE WATERSHED?

WHAT IN THE WATERSHED? Meet the BEAKED HAZELNUT -- Corylus cornuta ssp californica The beaked hazelnut is shrub which occurs from California to Alaska. This shrub provides outsized benefits for the ecosystem. As the name suggests, this is a true hazelnut and it does produce a 2-3cm edible nut. This nut is an important food source for people as well as birds and mammals such as jays, squirrels, chipmunks, turkeys, black bears, and deer. Beavers are also known to forage upon the stems. Adapted to the fire regime in California this plant will resprout after fire. Fire is known to increase the beaked hazelnut cover and abundance and has been a tool used in management by indigenous peoples. The stems produced in spring after fire are desirable for basketry. Blooming January to March this shrub produces catkins, floral structures which contain dense unisexual (male or female) flowers. The male catkins are pendulous chains hanging from branches just starting to leaf out in winter to spring. The leaves are notably soft and fuzzy and very much worth giving a little pat on a hike. Great places to see beaked hazelnut are in riparian areas in the Sierra Nevada Foothills to the high mountains. Think Grass Valley to Emigrant Gap. Photo Copyright © 2016 Keir Morse

During SYRCL's 23rd Wild & Scenic Film Festival, a group of young, aspiring filmmakers learned the art of stop motion animation during a youth workshop. Twenty-one enthusiastic kids explored the creative world of stop motion filmmaking to tell environmental stories during the workshop led by SYRCL’s Education Director, Monique Streit. Read more here: https://buff.ly/FCr9Mbk

In the face of federal cuts to conservation funding, our grassroots activism is more important than ever to protect our ecosystems and homes. Let's come together as a resilient community to remove invasive species, decrease wildfire risk, and put in the work to make a difference in our public lands! SYRCL's Restoration Coordinator is organizing a Scotch Broom removal workday at the BLM Campground by Edward's Crossing and could use your helping hands and enthusiasm. Here are the details: https://buff.ly/41bmRNy March 29th 8:45am- meet at the SYRCL office to organize carpools and load up weed pullers 9:30am- begin the pull near the BLM campground by Edward's Crossing (South Yuba Recreation Area) 1:00pm- finish up and have the option to either drive back to the office or have lunch by the river/hike the South Yuba Trail for a bit Bring: sturdy shoes, water, lunch, sunscreen, work gloves if you have them. Email Riley--riley@yubariver.org if you have any questions.

Still Time To Sign https://buff.ly/3QCtkfG There is still time to add your voice to protect freshwater in California. Sign our letter urging decision makers to add explicit protections for California’s rivers, creeks, and other freshwater ecosystems in the state’s landmark 30×30 plan. We will be closing this action on March 14th, so sign our letter now!

SYRCL’s annual Quiz Night is back on March 19th at The Wild Eye Pub in Grass Valley! Started in 2002, Quiz Night is the annual fundraiser for SYRCL’s Youth Environmentalist of the Year scholarship and its year-round River Education programs. Tickets to Quiz Night are $20 and are available on our website: https://buff.ly/43cgbBH We encourage you to get your team together (no more than five people) to show up and show off from 5:00–9:00pm at The Wild Eye Pub located at 535 Mill St, Grass Valley. Doors open at 5pm and trivia begins at 6:30pm. In addition to a full bar, The Wild Eye Pub -- @wild.eye.pub -- makes fresh, farm-to-table foods using seasonal produce from local, regional, sustainable, and organic farmers, vintners, brewers, & food makers. Their healthy, real food is sourced from humane ranchers, farmers, and suppliers.

SYRCL is looking for River Monitors to join for our 25th year! https://buff.ly/41fRYaR These volunteers go out on the 2nd Saturday of each month to monitor water quality conditions at one of our 37 sites throughout the Yuba Watershed. This program is entirely dependent on our wonderful community volunteers. If you are interested in becoming a River Monitor, you will be required to attend an Orientation AND a mandatory Field Training. This is a great opportunity to get outside and see the watershed throughout the entire year. This year's river monitoring dates will be: • March 8th  • April 12th • May 10th • June 14th • July 12th • August 9th  • September 13th  • October 11th  • November 8th  Please reach out to fiona@yubariver.org for more information!

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