Sierra Monarch Flyway
April 2024 Events
Farmer's Markets
- Marshall-Gold State Park, Farmer's Market in Coloma,12pm-4pm
- Placerville Wednesday Farmer's Market when it starts.
- Cameron Park, Burke Junction when it starts
Lots of activities for children and adults at the SpringTime Festival. Learn More!
April 21, Earth Day-Nisenan Land Appreciation 10:30am-4pm
Volunteer Day, Nisenan Land Appreciation/Earth Day! Join us for another fun day under the Cedar Trees planting Native Plants in the Nisenan Village Demonstration Garden at Marshall-Gold State park! Bring your gloves.
What we do
Call to Action for Citizen Scientists!
Join Us to restore the Sierra Pollinator Flyway!
This initiative is both a research endeavor and a collective community action to restore the Sierra pollinator flyway, initially established by the Tribes of the California Sierra Foothills. The habitats of California's Native Pollinators, extending from the Central Valley to the Sierra Foothills' forests and farms, have been interrupted by highways and residential developments.
Supported by the Wopumnes Nisenan and Mewuk Heritage and Nature Conservancy (Federal ID 83-2671897), our efforts are directed towards establishing protected pollinator habitats on public lands, private estates, and operational farms. The objective is to reconstruct the pollinator flyway throughout Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Nevada, and Yuba counties.
In the forthcoming decade and beyond, the Citizen Scientist Land Steward initiative will ensure continuous, nutritious forage for native pollinators and gather data to showcase enhanced migratory patterns along the historically significant route utilized by the Nisenan Tribes of the Sierra Foothills.
Nisenan Land Appreciation and Demonstration Garden
Volunteers are welcome to join us to build out the the Nisenan Village Pollinator Demonstration Garden at Marshall-Gold State Park. The park provides wheel barrows, shovels and rakes. Please bring your own gloves. Typically runs 10:30-3pm. See events for next volunteer day.
In collaboration with Marshal Gold State Park, we are excited for the construction of the California Native Interpretive Garden and Monarch Waystation behind the Nisenan Village Oomachas.
Situated in the upper American River watershed, the "Nisenan Village" exhibit, managed by Marshal Gold State Park, welcomes 70,000 visitors each year. The village is nestled at the base of "Mother Rock," a significant granite formation used by the Natives as a communal kitchen, evidenced by over 20 deep grinding mortars. In 2005, the Wopumnes Tribe added cedar bark oomachas (bark teepees) to the exhibit. Notably, in 2007, a levee breach caused the American River to swell, submerging the parking lot and reaching the Mother Rock for several days.
November 2022, volunteers came out to help prepare the Red area by Sheet Composting. Many hands make little work.
Natives raising Natives
The Wopumnes Natives Raising Natives Project has three goals:
Create sustainable economic development for Native people in the Sierra Foothills of California.
Provide a hands-on science learning opportunity for Native and non-native youth to boost STEM skills
Raise awareness of the need to conserve ecosystems that support native plants, butterflies and other threatened pollinators.
Natives Raising Natives was founded in 2023 and is the only tribal butterfly farming program in California.
Natives Raising Natives is a unique conservation initiative creating sustainable economic
development for tribal people while protecting the next generation of Monarchs from predators.
Identification
Store
Store is under construction.
All proceeds goes to building out
the Pollinator Flyway!
We are looking for Native Plant donations and will harvest from your yard: Cedar Seedings, Milkweeds, Soap Root, California Onion, Poppies, Yarrow, Elderberry, Manzanita, Sage, and more! Please use contact form below.
"The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand", Mark 1:15
Donations help us buy more equipment, plants, teach at schools and public events, and pay for services needed to build out the pollinator flyway.
We use GiveButter which is a Stripe product. GiveButter charges a 2.3% processing fee.
Contact us
Sierra Monarch Rescue is a Cultural Restoration and Environmental progam of the
Wopumnes Nisnenan and Mewuk Heritage
Preservation Society of El Dorado California,
Non-profit Tax ID 83-2671897.
We are approved by the IRS to receive unlimited funding.
