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EcoFlight over the Upper Feather River Watershed – 2023

On August 23rd, 2023 Friends of Plumas Wilderness and EcoFlight, along with partners from CalWild, Feather River Resource Conservation District, Enterprise Rancheria, Greenville Rancheria, Mooretown Rancheria, Sierra Institute for Community…

Oct 12
Marble Creek: A Retrospect

The place is massive, deep, and burned. Our path felt endless. In retrospect, looking back over the course of a long, fruitful, sometimes difficult year full of personal and societal…

Jun 07
Reconnaissance Mission: “To the Horizon”

The Oxford English Dictionary defines reconnaissance as a “military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features.” And indeed, the name Reconnaissance Peak has paramilitary origins. …

May 05
Remembering Conservation Histories: “Very Forest-Mindedly Yours”

John Muir came into the Feather River country to renew an old friendship with Emily Pelton, a friend who had moved out from the Midwest. He spent most of the…

Apr 07
These Burned Places: On Loss, Community, and Our Local | Wild

With the exception of last month’s post from our guest writer Austin Hagwood, a local man invested in the protection of the Middle Fork of the Feather River, the Friends…

Mar 04
Homecoming

To those who appreciate wild and scenic waters, a trip to the Middle Fork of the Feather River is the equivalent of a painter touring the Louvre or a mountaineer’s…

Feb 03
Mountain House Creek: Three Returns

There are those places deep in the interior of our watershed that we look at on the map for so long that they become part of us. They gather mystery…

Jul 22
Óm ChumÍ Peak: Of Names and Special Interest

Things looked grim as the Friends of Plumas Wilderness Board of Directors planned our excursion to the proposed Dixie Mountain Special Interest Area. Sierra Valley was too dry to float…

Jun 04
Fall River Watershed: “All is not Lost”

Infinite variations of black, browns, tans and grays arrest our vision as we drive through miles and miles of burned terrain. The standing remains of the once-green forest in the…

Apr 30
Adams Peak: “Atop the Eastern Edge”

If the Middle Fork is the Wild Heart of the Lost Sierra, then its headwater region on the east side of our forest shapes its rugged spirit. The Eastside is…

Apr 03
Mosquito Creek: “The Wild Exception”

If you look closely at the boundary of the proposed Red Hill Special Interest Area, you’ll see an irregular arm extending northwestward to encompass the Mosquito Creek drainage from its…

Feb 26
Red Hill: “The Hilltop Island”

We explored the proposed Red Hill botanical Special Interest Area on a cool, clear day in late-December. We made an 8-mile loop around the hilltop island under wide, blue skies…

Feb 03
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Jan 21
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