Board Chair Theo Fitanides to Speak at the Sierra Nevada Alliance Conservation Conference
Board Chair Theo Fitanides will take the stage at the conference on November 5th in Nevada City.
On Thursday, November 5, the Sierra Nevada Alliance is holding its Conservation Conference at the Miners Foundry in Nevada City. This year’s theme is “Connecting to Nature: Deepening our Relationship with the Sierra.” Our board president, Theo Fitanides, is one of the speakers.
Theo will be joining the Community Guardianship and Land Conservation panel alongside Dore Bietz of the Northern and Southern Me-Wuk, Nova Simpson of the Nevada Department of Transportation, and Irene Smith of Friends Aiding Wildlife In Nature. The session is about grassroots stewardship and the local people who keep it going.
Other panels cover long-term conservation funding, workforce pathways in forestry, and the Forest Service reorganization. Aside from the sessions, a keynote will be delivered by M. Kat Anderson, ethnoecologist and author of Tending the Wild.
Tickets are $100, or $75 if you belong to an Alliance Member Group. Field tours cost $25 each. You can register and see the full agenda on the Sierra Nevada Alliance website.