2022 Mokelumne River recreation flow days
PG&E has announced the 2022 recreational flow release days on the Mokelumne River. This year there will be flow days on all three runs. Please note the Devil’s Nose run
April 5, 2022
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Important Watershed Team progress
GreenGen Mokelumne Pumped Storage Project Image credit GreenGen LLC GreenGen LLC recently released an annual progress report for its proposed Mokelumne Pumped Storage Project P-14796, which outlined activities over the
March 18, 2022
Community efforts protect our waterways
California has a large number of unsheltered individuals, and that number has likely increased due to the effects of the Covid 19 Pandemic. Homeless individuals can cause negative impacts to
March 18, 2022
Tiger Creek Road Closures March 1 – May 1
Tiger Creek Road Closures March 1 – May 1, 2022 PG&E, owner of the Mokelumne Hydroelectric River Project , has announced that it will be intermittently closing Tiger Creek Road
March 2, 2022
Welcoming our new advocate Meredith Sierra
Meredith Sierra has joined the Foothill Conservancy as the new watershed conservation and land use advocate. She is a recent graduate from California State University Sacramento (CSUS) with a B.S.
December 7, 2021
The Discovery – Part II
AS FOSSILS ARE REVEALED IN THE FOOTHILLS, SO ARE THE MYSTERIES Editor’s note: The announcement this summer that a vast collection of Miocene fossils had been discovered in the
December 7, 2021
Another successful river cleanup!
We are so grateful for the wonderful volunteers who came out on a Saturday morning to help clean up the Mokelumne river! It was a beautiful, cool morning for our
September 23, 2021
Employment Opportunity: Watershed Conservation and Land Use Advocate
Job Announcement Foothill Conservancy Watershed Conservation and Land Use Advocate The Foothill Conservancy is a small, community-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a primary focus on California’s central Sierra Nevada foothills.
August 23, 2021
Join us for the cleanup at the Kennedy Mine Dam
The Foothill Conservancy has been working with the community and our unhoused neighbors in an effort to clean up local homeless encampments along waterways. Some of these sites are occupied
July 6, 2021
GreenGen Mokelumne Water Battery Project Update
The GreenGen Mokelumne Water Battery Project is a hydropower project with a long history, beginning back in 2008 with the original proposal by PG&E. This “pumped storage” system would pump
June 14, 2021
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