
Fiske Named Watershed Conservation and Land Use Advocate
Megan Fiske has joined Foothill Conservancy as the new Watershed Conservation and Land Use Advocate. Fiske brings her five years’ experience working for the Forest Service, and over five years
Megan Fiske has joined Foothill Conservancy as the new Watershed Conservation and Land Use Advocate. Fiske brings her five years’ experience working for the Forest Service, and over five years
In 2020, Foothill Conservancy formed the Watershed Protection Alliance, a team to map, study, and address potential water quality degradation related to waste along waterways in Amador and Calaveras counties.
Here we are in year two of the current drought in California. It seems like we are always in a drought, just coming out of one, or heading to a
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT FOOTHILL CONSERVANCY WATERSHED CONSERVATION/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. We are
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
The Foothill Conservancy has been working with the community alongside our unhoused neighbors in an effort to clean up local homeless encampments along waterways. Some of these sites are occupied
An increase in unemployment often leads to a spike in the unsheltered population. Cities throughout the United States were already seeing these impacts, and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
Mapping and prioritizing tool Over the last year, Foothill Conservancy’s Watershed Conservation Advocate Shane Dante has continued to participate in the Amador-Calaveras Consensus Group Strategic Landscape Assessment Working Group. The
As we’ve discussed in the previous newsletter, a private company called GreenGen Storage LLC is proposing to build a pumped-storage hydroelectric project on the Mokelumne River. It would use existing PG&E
Courtesy photo: Caltrans In our last newsletter, we let you know of our involvement in Caltrans’ environmental review of plans to make safety upgrades to its Highway 49 bridge over
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