Wildlife and Landscape Photo Winners Selected!

*Top 20 photos from the contest are linked at the bottom of this page.            After evaluating 220 photo entries, the staff of the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center (CSERC) in Twain Harte selected winning photos in the Center’s 2021 Photo Contest.  Two adult award-winners were chosen in the Wildlife category […]

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Nature Photo Contest Now Open for Entries!

     CSERC sponsors an annual photo contest to raise interest in wildlife and to encourage everyone to take notice of the beauty of nature in our region.  Cash prizes will be awarded in the Wildlife Photo category and in the Natural Landscape Photo category.      Between now and May 15th anyone may submit up […]

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State launches “30 X 30” plan to conserve natural values

     On October 7, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order known as “30 by 30.” The order directs state agencies to deploy a number of strategies to store carbon in the state’s natural and working lands and remove it from the atmosphere. California was the first state in the nation to commit […]

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Raising Awareness in Youth

     For 30 years, CSERC staff has presented slide shows to schools and community groups across Central California – reaching over 155,000 participants. Those in-person programs (mostly for schools in the foothills and Central Valley) are now on hold due to the pandemic; but CSERC’s outreach to youth has soared over the past year […]

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Dedicated Activist Made A Difference For Yosemite And Wild Places

For three decades, Sierra Club activist George Whitmore partnered with CSERC’s executive director John Buckley and others in jointly working for greater protection for wild places of the Sierra Nevada and better management of Yosemite National Park. George was famous (as noted in the NPR news story) for his precedent-setting mountain climbing achievements. But for […]

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