Program 02 · Learn With Us
Education & Events
Field walks, talks, and the annual Fungus Foray — plus our long-running Tree Rings journal and books. Come deepen your connection to the watershed.
June 2026
01 · Upcoming
What's coming up
1 event · June
JUN
24
Field Tour · Free
YFN Summer Field Tour: Broadcast Burn Units
9:30 AM – 3:30 PMCarpool from Nevada City / Rood Center — details provided upon registration
Join the Yuba Forest Network for an on-the-ground look at two active prescribed fire projects along the South Yuba River, including broadcast burn units, fuels treatment lessons, and landscape-scale strategies.
Recent Past Events
April 11, 2026
Little Deer Creek Spring Field Tour (Weekend)
Nevada County Sportsmen Parking Lot, 11296 Banner Mountain Trail, Nevada City, CA
April 7, 2026
Little Deer Creek Spring Field Tour (Weekday)
Nevada County Sportsmen Parking Lot, 11296 Banner Mountain Trail, Nevada City, CA
November 3, 2025
'Inimim Forest Restoration Project - Phase 3 Timber Harvest Community Meeting
North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center,17894 Tyler Foote Rd, Nevada City, CA 95959
September 17, 2025
Pre-Proposal Field Meeting
17894 Tyler Foote Rd, Nevada City, CA 95959
02 · Annual Event
The Fungus Foray
Since 2000 · Every Fall
A community ritual of curiosity
Every fall, mushroom hunters of every level converge on the San Juan Ridge for a weekend of foraging, identification, and shared meals. Specimens come in from across the watershed; mycologists help sort and label them on long tables.
The Foray is part field-trip, part science lab, part potluck — and it’s open to anyone curious about the fungal world beneath our feet.
- Next Foray
- December 2026 (date TBA)
- Location
- San Juan Ridge, Nevada County
- Cost
- TBD · Members discounted
- Notify Me
- Join the mailing list
03 · Publication
Tree Rings Journal
11 issues online · 2008–2021
Tree Ringsis YWI’s long-running journal — a blend of science, essays, poetry, and art rooted in the Yuba watershed. The most recent issues are digitized and free to read online; earlier issues are being scanned and added as they become available.
30
Years in print
11
Issues online
∞
Free to read
Issues 2008–2021 are digitized and free to read above. The full archive back to 1991 hasn’t been digitized yet — we’re scanning the earlier issues and will add them here as they become available.
04 · Publication
Buy the Book
Comstock Bonanza Press · 2010
The Nature of This Place
Edited by Bruce Boyd & Liese Greensfelder · Foreword by Gary Snyder
A curated selection of essays, poems, photographs, and drawings from Tree Rings(1991–2010). The book traces YWI’s first two decades and the people, places, and ideas that shaped the watershed’s stewardship community.
$29.00Buy via PayPal →
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05 · From the Forest
Wild Neighbors
Video & trail-cam photos
Our work is forest health and education — but the forest has its own life going on, mostly out of sight. We’ve gathered a featured video from wildlife biologist Jeff Alvarez on reading a western pond turtle, alongside a small gallery of what our trail cameras have caught over the years.
The cameras have been deployed informally, not as a monitoring program. We share what they’ve caught because the forest’s other residents are worth knowing.
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