Reclaiming the Sierra: Community Summit on Mining Impacts
THANK YOU to everyone who attended and helped out with our first annual Reclaiming the Sierra. It was a huge success!
We plan to post conference proceedings, PowerPoint presentations, notes, and much more online by December 1. Stay tuned! The Community Summit program is available here!
The Sierra Fund is excited to present the first-ever public conference on how to address the ongoing human health, environmental and cultural impacts of over a century of mining in the Sierra Nevada.
Held November 8 & 9, 2010 at the Miners Foundry in Nevada City, CA, the Community Summit focused on the positive actions that Sierra residents, businesses, leaders, government agencies, and tribes can take to protect their health, and clean up their communities and the environment.
The conference agenda included:
- tours of exemplary historic mine sites and remediation projects
- keynote speakers
- workshop panel discussions
- a services expo: business, nonprofit and government
- graduate student project posters/competition
- cultural and musical highlights
- networking reception and luncheon
Click the following links for more information about:
- Conference agenda inculding workshops
- Speakers - including keynotes Jane Hightower, M.D. and Gray Brechin, Ph.D.
- Services Expo - booths showcasing technology, businesses, programs and projects
- Sierra Environmental Services Directory - fill out an entry for free listing in a new directory of scientific, legal, financial, and other experts working to reclaim our Sierra
