About the Project

Presented to the people of the Truckee-Tahoe region of California, the FOREST⇌FIRE project is a partnership between Nevada County Arts Council, Truckee-Donner Recreation and Park District, and University of California, Berkeley - Sagehen Creek Field Station, with Educational and Environmental Outreach by Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships. FOREST⇌FIRE is created by Michael and Heather Llewellyn.

SUPPORTERS

FOREST⇌FIRE’s partners and creators are grateful for the support of California Arts Council through their Creative California Communities grant program; California Humanities - a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities (visit calhum.org); Tahoe Truckee Excellence in Education Foundation; Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, through the Nature Fund and Queen of Hearts Women’s Fund; University of Nevada - Reno; Cal Fire; Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, Truckee Tahoe Airport District; Truckee Public Arts Commission; Truckee Arts Alliance; East River PR; Mountain Forge, and many other organizations and individuals.

Acknowledgments

At its heart, FOREST⇌FIRE springs from the forest management prescription developed by University of California, Berkeley - Sagehen Creek Field Station’s Sagehen Forest Project and from recommendations made by California’s Little Hoover Commission Report #242 “Fire on the Mountain: Rethinking Forest Management in the Sierra Nevada”. In developing the project, as participants of the Artist-In-Residence Program at Sagehen Creek Field Station, the creators are grateful to have had the opportunity to interview individuals from forest stakeholders as varied as (but not limited to):

• UC Berkeley, Sagehen Creek Field Station

• U.S. Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest

• U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region

• Cal Fire

• National Forest Foundation

• Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California

• Nisenan of the Nevada City Rancheria

• Nevada County Office of Emergency Services

• Sierra Nevada Conservancy

• The Nature Conservancy

• Sierra Institute for Community and Environment

• Collins Pine

• Truckee River Watershed Council

• South Yuba River Citizens League

• The Nevada Museum of Art, Art + Environment Center

Nevada County Arts Council and its partners stand in solidarity with all of Nevada County’s Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge that our work takes place on the now occupied traditional lands of the Nisenan and Washoe people, who are the past, present, and future stewards of this place. We make this first step in our journey to develop relationships and cultural competencies to truly support native sovereignty.