Friends of Auburn Ravine

Friends of Auburn Ravine Working to protect and enhance natural habitats throughout the Auburn Ravine watershed for the benefi

Overview and Goals
We believe that supporting the natural diversity of plants and animals in the watershed can be done in a way that will improve property values, reduce fire danger, reduce flood risk, improve agricultural productivity, increase recreational and educational opportunities, and improve the quality of life for area residents and visitors. We partner with the Valley Foothill Watershed

s Collaborative, and other watershed organizations to provide these same services for other watersheds in Placer and Sutter counties. While working to increase the natural beauty of the Auburn Ravine watershed and the diversity of its native species, we respect private property rights, and the needs of domestic, agricultural, and recreational water users. We support deliberate and compassionate action to prevent illegal camping. We recognize the Public Trust Doctrine as the guiding principle for the role of public agencies as stewards of the watersheds in which they operate. We apply the concepts of Reconciliation Ecology to advocate projects that take a balanced approach to protecting and enhancing the Auburn Ravine watershed. An example of this is our advocacy for removal of the Hemphill Dam and installation at that site of a modern water diversion facility that will allow continued water deliveries to customers while also allowing unimpeded passage for fish migrating upstream and downstream. This will enhance salmon and steelhead populations in Auburn Ravine, and is a step toward our goal of restoring them to their historic range within the watershed. We support development of a Center for Wildlife Education along the banks of Auburn Ravine to improve the economy of the area through eco-tourism, and to provide educational programs for people throughout the region. We work with local governmental agencies and developers to increase property values in residential developments by including a mix of greenbelt lots and park-view lots in their designs, and where feasible, by providing public access to Auburn Ravine via walking/biking trails along the stream, and within its riparian corridor and flood plain. We facilitate collaboration on projects to achieve these goals, and work to obtain funding from local, state, and national agencies, and charitable organizations.

11/28/2025
11/28/2025

River otters are adorable apex predators

11/24/2025

Video of two adult Chinook Salmon, taken this weekend at our first Salmon Survey of the season (2 of the 43 we spotted!) Video by Laura Peters

We had our first Salmon Survey of the season and we couldn't be happier with the results. Our amazing crew of 15 in-stre...
11/24/2025

We had our first Salmon Survey of the season and we couldn't be happier with the results. Our amazing crew of 15 in-stream volunteers counted 43 adult Chinook salmon on the ravine, 42 alive and one carcass. All were above the Hemphill site, the fish were just waiting all this time! ๐Ÿซถ

THANK YOU to everyone who came today for another wonderful clean up! Just a portion of the trash cleaned up today.
09/28/2025

THANK YOU to everyone who came today for another wonderful clean up! Just a portion of the trash cleaned up today.

Save the Date! September 27th meet us at McBean Park 9AM to clean up our creek!
07/04/2025

Save the Date! September 27th meet us at McBean Park 9AM to clean up our creek!

TOMORROW Come join us at McBean Park 9AM for the clean up!
09/20/2024

TOMORROW

Come join us at McBean Park 9AM for the clean up!

Don't forget! Clean up this Saturday! We will be catered by Lincoln's own Pizza Guys!So come out, clean up the creek, an...
09/18/2024

Don't forget! Clean up this Saturday! We will be catered by Lincoln's own Pizza Guys!

So come out, clean up the creek, and get some.

Happy to be apart of this!
09/09/2024

Happy to be apart of this!

๐–๐ž'๐ซ๐ž ๐ž๐ฑ๐œ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ OLLI at Sierra College. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐–๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐–๐ž๐ญ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž Dry Creek Conservancy, Friends of Auburn Ravine, ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ ๐’๐ข๐ž๐ซ๐ซ๐š ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ/๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐š๐ข๐ซ๐ž ๐‰๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฉ๐ก ๐Œ๐ž๐๐ž๐ข๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ Joan M Griffin๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ญ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐/๐ฐ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž, ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ค๐ž๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž'๐ฏ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ŸŸ๐ŸŸ๐ŸŸ

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ. ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐‘ ๐œ๐จ๐๐ž ๐จ๐ซ www.sierraolli.org ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐ฎ๐ฌ!

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Sacramento, CA

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(916) 672-9672

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