"The Sierra Nevada Now and Then: Revisiting the Grinnell Survey" - October 6, 2007

Update!: Due to early snowfall in the Truckee area, this event has been moved to the Sierra College North Campus, 10725 Pioneer Trail, Truckee. Click on map for larger image.




Sponsored by the Institute for Sustainability at the Sierra College Tahoe-Truckee Campus, and UC Berkeley's Sagehen Creek Field Station, the event will include an informative afternoon presentation by Dr. Craig Moritz and Dr. Stephen Long from UCB's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and a workshop that will focus on the Sierra Nevada habitat, human impact, and change through time.

The Grinnell survey is an environmental and mammal assessment that was completed nearly a century ago. The survey is now being revisited in an effort to assess the changes that have occurred to the natural environment in the past 100 years. An explanation of the survey, speculation concerning the cause of these environmental changes, and evaluation of the human impact will all be addressed.

Admission is free and all ages are welcome.

Saturday, October 6th at 1:00 p.m. at Sagehen Creek Field Station. Find downloadable map and directions to the station here, or meet at Sierra College's Pioneer Center by 12:30 to carpool. For more information, call Frank DeCourten at (916)789-2933.

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In addition to the lecture, Frank DeCourten from Sierra College, Rocklin, will be giving a presentation on the Institute for Sustainability at the Tahoe-Truckee Campus. The Institute for Sustainability at the Sierra College Tahoe-Truckee campus is associated with the Center for Sierra Nevada Studies. The "Center" is an official entity of Sierra College and has been established under the Vice President for Educational Services and Programs. The Center has a strong reputation for its dedication to conservation and environmental issues, including the Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum and "Saving the Sierra", an award-winning oral history project. The Center provides an organizational placeholder for the growth and development of our sustainability efforts, which may someday develop into a separate district-wide initiative.

Within the current activities of the Center is a new sustainability initiative called the "Institute for Sustainability at the Sierra College Tahoe-Truckee campus". This "Institute" will concern itself with the promotion and implementation of the five point plan known as the Seventh Generation Project which addresses sustainability ethics and principles in five arenas of college activity: Policy, Educational Programs & Services, Educational Requirements, Operations, and Outreach.