Support organizations that preserve, protect, clean, heal, and educate about our local habitats.
Buy a holiday gift, spend outdoor quality time with family and friends and keep Nevada County healthy.
Visit the websites of the organizations below to;
- make a gift for operating expenses in someone’s name
- buy film festival tickets
- attend lectures
- take family and friends hiking
- volunteer to be a water monitor
- learn to become a citizen scientist
- or a California Naturalist
- buy books to learn to about Nevada County native plants
- go on field trips
- learn to propagate and spread native plants
Bear Yuba Land Trust
Bear Yuba Land Trust exists to protect and defend the working and natural lands
of the Bear and Yuba River Watersheds and to enrich the deep community connection with nature, in perpetuity.
CHIRP – California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project
(Nisenan Tribe)
(CHIRP) was created to research, document, preserve, and protect California Indigenous Nisenan culture.
Donate (also accepts land, automobiles, and stock donations.)
*see books below for more
Redbud Chapter California Native Plant Society
The Redbud Chapter is dedicated to exploring, educating, researching, and writing about the diversity and beauty of our native flora.
Nevada County Native Plant Books
Sierra Streams Institute
Sierra Streams Institute’s mission is to link water, science, and people for the benefit of human and environmental health.
UC California Naturalist Program
South Yuba River Citizens League
SYRCL unites the community to protect and restore the Yuba River watershed.
River Clean-up
River Monitoring
River Ambassadors
Salmon Expeditions
$20-$500
The Sierra Fund (Mercury Cleanup in the Sierra Nevada)
The Sierra Fund’s mission is to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Donate (also accepts bequests, asset donations, & beneficiary naming)
Truckee Donner Land Trust (Tahoe/Donner Land Preservation)
To preserve and protect scenic, historic and recreational lands with high natural resource values in the Truckee Donner region
and manage recreational activities on these lands in a sustainable manner.
Yuba Watershed Institute (North San Juan focus)
The Yuba Watershed Institute is a group of citizens who are concerned with the sustainable use of natural resources and the protection of
long-term biological diversity within the Yuba River watershed. The Institute also serves as an educational
resource, providing an ongoing series of talks, seminars, publications and walks on all aspects of the watershed.
Shop – The Nature of this Place book & Cutting Boards
Choose an organization to support when you ‘Smile’ shop on Amazon
Amazon Smile Registration
1. Visit AmazonSmile.com
https://youtu.be/fnwB7UcsG0A
2. Select your local organization to support
*Nevada County land steward organizations registered on AmazonSmile as of December 2019
Sierra Streams Institute
South Yuba River Citizens League
The Sierra Fund
Yuba Watershed Institute
Nevada County oriented Books & Art
(not associated with a nonprofit)
Books
- All FORMATS
Ecosystems of California by Harold Mooney and Erika Zavaleta
- AUDIOBOOKS
Gold Hunters, J.D. Borthwick [Librivox]
- E-BOOKS
Man and Nature, George Perkins Marsh (Father of Conservation) – 1864 – epub, html, and other formats
The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Other Tales, Bret Harte | for Library Loan
Nevada (City), Grass Valley & Rough & Ready General Directory of Citizens; a historical sketch of Nevada County, A. A. Sargent, ESQ 1856
Three Years in California, J.D. Borthwick
The Frontier in American History (1920), Frederick J. Turner
- PRINT BOOKS
After the Gold Rush: Society in Grass Valley and Nevada City, California, 1849-1870, Ralph Mann
Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization (1976), Sherburne F. Cook
The Cousin Jacks; the Cornish in America (1969), A.L. Rowse
Crow’s Range: An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada, by David Beesley [KXJZ, Insight interview 35:46]
Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck, Gary Noy
Hard Rock Epic: Western Miners and the Industrial Revolution, 1860-1910, Mark Wyman
History of Us: Nisenan Tribe of the Nevada City Rancheria, Richard B. Johnson
Jennie Carter, A Black Journalist of the Early West, edited by Eric Gardner
Jews in the California Gold Rush (1994), Robert E. Levinson
Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings (1854), Alonzo Delano
On the Trail to the California Gold Rush (1806-74), Alonzo Delano
The Pioneer Miner and Pack Mule Express, (California Historical Society. Special publication) (1931)
The River: Hiking Trails and History of the South Fork of the Yuba River, Hank Meals
Sierra College Press
Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues, Gary Noy
Tribal Land Conservation, Beth Rose Middleton
Yuba Trails: A Selection of Historic Hiking Trails in the Yuba River Watershed, Hank Meals
Yuba Trails 2: A selection of hiking trails in the Yuba River and neighboring watersheds, Hank Meals
Life on the Creek art series – Hundreds of Nevada County designs
Deer Creek & Nevada County Art made-to-order on clothing, housewares, or accessories.
$5 from each sale supports the FDC blog & documentary project.
Once complete, proceeds from art sales will be donated to one or more of the nonprofit organizations listed above!
