TRUCKEE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL

Our work is multifaceted. Part science: assessing and monitoring the biology, geology, and hydrology of each project. Part management: pulling together agencies, consultants and contractors needed to get the job done. And part funding: finding the grants, foundations and donors needed to finance these ambitious multi-year efforts. Finally, it’s getting the word out: educating locals, visitors and downstream water-users about our stressed and endangered eco-system. By managing large-scale restoration projects, influencing emerging policies to mitigate risk, and engaging people from all age, interest and economic backgrounds, we work to make the watershed more resilient, sustainable and alive.

We collaborate, convene, and coordinate. We bring diverse interests together to solve complex problems—finding ways to revive the resiliency of our natural resources while supporting the vibrancy of our local community. Our goal is to continually respect all viewpoints, deliver on our commitments and move forward to get the work done— always with passion, dedication & integrity. We find far-reaching solutions that revitalize our environment and accommodate change.

TRWC has a strong board of nine members who maintain rigorous governance standards and contribute skills and experience. TRWC employs seven FTE employees year round. Our staff meets quarterly with stakeholders to identify and coordinate restoration projects to protect and enhance the Truckee River watershed. In 22 years we have established relationships with project partners who support our restoration program and share project cost. We have 100 giving society members who pledge to financially support us a minimum of $1,000/year for five years.

A watershed assessment and a tributaries assessment have been completed. Basin assessment have been completed for high-priority areas (e.g. Donner and Martis) Meadows have been restored: Perazzo, Merril-Davies, and Truckee Meadows an urban meadow. River banks and riparian area of the first four miles of the Truckee were restored and environmentally safe "landings" were created for recreational users. Volunteers have planted hundreds of sugar pine trees and willows, spread hundreds of pounds of native seed, mulched, built and stabilized trails, implemented BMPs to control erosion off their properties, and surveyed and removed acres of invasive weeds. In 2018 - if fully funded - we plan to assess the Truckee urban corridor of the Truckee River, design projects to restore Bear Creek and Coldstream, McIver Dairy meadow, Safehen Fen and Sardine meadow, and construct projects to restore areas in Dry Lake/East Martis Creek, Johnson Canyon - West, the Martis Creek Wildlife Area and the mainstem of Martis Creek and mobilize 400 volunteers at restoration projects on Truckee River Day - Oct. 14, 2018.