Sagehen Science & Education

Jonathon Keats at Sagehen

Philosopher/Conceptual Artist Jonathon Keats talks to the Sierra Nevada College - MFA students during their Sagehen visit, 8/7/18.

How do you increase forest restoration pace and scale?

In order to save our precious western US forests, we need to remove 100 years of accumulated fuels to reduce destructive wildfire and allow natural, healthy, low intensity fire to return. Old style forestry got us into the problem. How do we find our way out in time to make a difference? The Sagehen Forest Project knows how! Listen to a discussion from a 2015 presentation to Congressional Staffers at Sagehen. Speakers include: - Eli Ilano, Tahoe Forest Supervisor - Scott Conway, Forest Service V...

Youth Voices Radio Project

Sagehen ARC graduate Tanya Cabrera participated in the KVMR Youth Voices radio program, producing this segment on Sagehen's ARC program. More info about the program at http://kvmr.org/about/youth_voices_radio.html

California Avalanche Forecasting

February, 2006: Carolyn Crane turns the microphone on staff from the Sierra Avalanche Center in Truckee & the Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center in Mammoth, then takes a field trip into the wintery Sagehen Basin to learn about snow crystals, snowpits, beacons & probes. Photo: Avalanche Forecaster Brandon Schwartz kicks off avalanches on a small test slope at the top of Sagehen basin. 5:36

Graduates and Program Director discuss the A.R.C. experience

November 11, 2004: Carolyn Crane interviews Katie & some of the 2004 program graduates--Carlos, Angie, Aldo & Heriberto--for KVMR's "Public Planet". This program includes reading of the student's original poetry & a call-in session. 47:00

Adventure - Risk - Challenge: What's it all about?

October, 2004: Program Director Katie Fesus & graduates explain to Carolyn Crane what A.R.C. is about & how it began. Author Bonnie Bernard weighs in with a discussion of success factors for youth development 05:28

Discussion and call-in session with A.R.C. Program Director, Katie Fesus

As a follow up to her longer program for NPR (see below), journalist Carolyn Crane conducts an interview session with Katie Fesus about Sagehen's Adventure - Risk - Challenge outreach program for "Left Coast Radio". Katie gets a chance to fill in the gaps. 11:29

An Interview with Jeff Brown, Station Manager at Sagehen Creek Field Station

August, 2005: Jeff Brown, Station Manager, talks to Carolyn Crane about how to fund & run a remote field research station. 14:59

Watersheds and climate change

August, 2005: Sagehen researchers--including our Faculty Director, Prof. James Kirchner--discuss watershed hydrology & climate change. Journalist Carolyn Crane discovers why California may be especially vulnerable to global warming. 13:03

Forest fire dynamics explored in SPLAT study

August, 2005: Carolyn Crane interviews Sagehen researchers about "Strategically Placed Land Area Treatments" being studied as a strategy to alter forest fire behavior. 10:30

Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Study in Sagehen Creek

August, 2005: Carolyn Crane talks to Sagehen Creek Field Station researchers & staff about a study of native & endangered Lahontan Cutthroat Trout. Check out Sagehen's Fish Cam in the in-stream fish observation room. 07:58

Sagehen's "Adventure - Risk - Challenge" outreach program

Sagehen's Adventure - Risk - Challenge summer literacy program

Carolyn Crane turns a spotlight on Sagehen Creek Field Station's innovative English language learner outreach program for NPR. See our web-site for more information about the program, or to contact Program Director Katie Fesus. 28:59