As you probably know by now, a trip to Yosemite National Park is not the same as it was in 2019, or even 2020. Covid has changed the way the Park operates. It’s important to be up to date about when you can and can’t go, what facilities are and are not open, […]
*Photos are not in order of contest ranking. Top Wildlife Photos
*Top 20 photos from the contest are linked at the bottom of this page. After evaluating 220 photo entries, the staff of the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center (CSERC) in Twain Harte selected winning photos in the Center’s 2021 Photo Contest. Two adult award-winners were chosen in the Wildlife category […]
Read the article here: Early signs signal a disastrous wildfire season in the West
CSERC sponsors an annual photo contest to raise interest in wildlife and to encourage everyone to take notice of the beauty of nature in our region. Cash prizes will be awarded in the Wildlife Photo category and in the Natural Landscape Photo category. Between now and May 15th anyone may submit up […]
On October 7, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order known as “30 by 30.” The order directs state agencies to deploy a number of strategies to store carbon in the state’s natural and working lands and remove it from the atmosphere. California was the first state in the nation to commit […]
Mention the word “wolf,” and it can immediately cause some people to connect to their long-held views that wolves are threats to public safety or that they are dangerous predators of livestock. In contrast, others may think of them as charismatic dog-like animals that howl at the moon and form a pack. […]
For 30 years, CSERC staff has presented slide shows to schools and community groups across Central California – reaching over 155,000 participants. Those in-person programs (mostly for schools in the foothills and Central Valley) are now on hold due to the pandemic; but CSERC’s outreach to youth has soared over the past year […]
For three decades, Sierra Club activist George Whitmore partnered with CSERC’s executive director John Buckley and others in jointly working for greater protection for wild places of the Sierra Nevada and better management of Yosemite National Park. George was famous (as noted in the NPR news story) for his precedent-setting mountain climbing achievements. But for […]
The 2020 fire season shattered records, burning 4.35 million acres across the state of California in a matter of months. Drought, development, and the unknown future effects of climate change haunt old-growth forests and ancient landscapes across the state. Forest mismanagement and increased temperatures have threatened and damaged our forests like never before. This year […]