Bear River Day & Film Festival
Sunday, March 31

Know Your Watershed Month*
​FREE Kick-Off Event at
Bear River Campground
10 am - 4 pm
2500 Campground Rd, Colfax, CA
(down to river from either Plum Tree or Milk Ranch Rd)
1 mile hike to Group Campground from Day Use Parking Lot

This event kicks off the month long celebration of the Yuba, Bear and American River watersheds with a Nisenan Blessing, Neena McNair Family Singers praying and singing with the Mother Drum.

​Learn about watersheds from many of our collaborating organizations at display booths. Discover plants and animals of this watershed at our Bear River Bio-Blitz or afternoon hike! Children’s activities and music by Riparia. Join us for a picnic at noon after the bio-blitz.

Schedule of Events:

• 10:00 – 12:00

Bio-blitz Training and biological inventory of the Bear River. Rick Ramos leads with several experts in plants, birds, other animal types. Come as a participant or learn how to lead a bio-blitz of your own!

• 11:00 – 3:00

Enviro-Fair features dozens of environmental nonprofit from all four watersheds sharing information about their watershed issues, their events in April and how you can get involved

• 11:00 – 2:00

The Neena McNair Family Singers will be praying and singing with the Mother Drum

• 11:00 – 2:30

Gold Country Fly Fishers will have a hands on aquatic bug tank and identification for kids and adult’s, and also they will have practice fly rods, and casting instructions.
Nisenan Blessing

• 12:00 – 1:00 

Bring your picnic lunch, blanket and or chairs and join your neighbors and friends at the riverside.

• 1:45 – 2:15 

Water Quality Monitoring Demonstration from Wolf Creek Alliance and Sierra Streams Institute
Music by Riparia

• 2:30 -3:30

Guided tour by our experts Richard Marks and Kristen Hein Strohm as you hike the Bear River campground trail network, maintained by the Meadow Vista Trails Association

• 4:00 

Riverside activities end, and the Kick-off Celebration moves to the Sierra Vista Community Center

Please, no alcohol or drugs
Pets on leash only!

First Annual
Bear River Film Festival
at
Sierra Vista Center
55 School St., Colfax, CA​
4:30 - 8:00 pm
ADMISSION IS FREE!
Come on down… it’s FREE.
Join your neighbors and friends
in celebrating the
​Bear River Watershed!
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Bear River Film Festival
Schedule of Events:

• 4:30 PM

Doors Open, with free popcorn, complimentary drinks and sodas, and pizza by the slice. (Retraction: originally we thought we could offer free beer without a license, but we found we cannot meet the arcane criteria of a "private party". Next time!)

• 5:00 PM

Citizen Science in the Bear River presented by Sierra Streams Institute
Sierra Streams Institute has been collecting data in the Bear River watershed with the help of citizen scientists for 4 years. We are in the midst of building a comprehensive data set that will be used to make decisions in the watershed in the near future. Come learn about the work that’s being done and learn how you, too, can become a citizen scientist.
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• 5:30 - 8:00 PM

Bear River Films begin
Bear River Watershed in photographs, with an update on the Bear River Watershed hiking trail. Five Bear River videos, including kayak and tubing videos and photos of where and when to float and yak the Bear, and when NOT to go.
Special presentation: Centennial Dam--- an Obituary. (While this is a draft and early version of the obituary, dam fights never seem to end and dam proposals never seem to die--- like this 1926 zombie dam proposal. But you'll see why we're calling it an obit!)
Surprise short inspirational videos to boot!
Come on down! Join your neighbors and friends. It's FREE!
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*For more information on Know Your Watersheds – including the Bear, American, Yuba, and Wolf Creek visit  www.knowyourwatershed.org/