Kudos to the Northern Sierra Partnership, an effort to buy undeveloped land in the Sierra Nevada in order to preserve them for future generations before any large scale building starts to occur.
Via Mercury News:

Jim and Becky Morgan of Los Altos Hills — he, the retired CEO of Applied Materials and she, a former Santa Clara [...]

While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to keep California State Parks open, he didn’t stress how drastic some changes would be to deal with the 14.2 million dollar reduction in the Park budget.
A summary of the service reductions in store for most of California’s 278 state parks was created by the park superintendants to highlight the major [...]

After months of waiting, two popular bouldering areas located in the hills above Santa Barbara have reopened to public use.  The Brickyard, a remarkable sandstone boulderfield that holds such classics as Yeti (V4) and Grotesque Old Woman (V7), and The Playground, a bouldering destination that also has 20+ sport routes, have been closed since the Gap [...]

Be sure to check out Inhabitat’s video webinar with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom tomorrow.
What: Inhabitat Green talks with Gavin Newsom
When: Wednesday at 12:00 pm PT
Where: Online Video Webinar
Register: Sign up here
Via Inhabitat:

CALLING ALL SAN FRANCISCANS & those of you who want to green your cities!
We’re interviewing San Francisco mayor GAVIN NEWSOM next Wednesday the 28th [...]

Homewood is doing some simple, but powerful, things to keep Tahoe blue.
They’ve begun an effort to keep sediment from running right down the hill and into the lake.  If you haven’t been to Homewood, it sits right across the street from Lake Tahoe, so any intense rain washes sediment from the hill down into the [...]

The Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comment on the actions proposed to deal with invasive plant species on National Forest lands in the Lake Tahoe Area.
According to the public letter issued by the Forest Service, chemical treatment is proposed for approximately 100 acres of infested area, and alternative treatments (manual, [...]

With more than 4,800 actions planned across 179 countries the International Day of Climate Change, scheduled tomorrow October 24,  has the potential to become the largest public demonstration devoted to climate issues ever.
The events are being coordinated and publicized by 350.org, a group devoted to raising awareness of climate change.  According to the interactive map [...]

New University of California study predicts that up to one-third of California bird spieces may move out of state as their habitat transforms due to climate change.
Via ABC 7:

I can't wait to see this new Ken Burns film. It just debuted at Mountainfilm in Telluride. The rest of us have to wait until September 27 to see it. Here's the trailer:

Via PBS:
Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales — from Acadia to Yosemite, [...]

The final snow survey of the season has come and gone and the Department of Water Resources has found that the 08/09 snowpack measures up at 66% of average. That marks the third straight year of below average snow depths.
From myMotherLoad:
D.W.R. Spokesperson Ted Thomas says, “We’re well past the period where
we can expect heavy [...]