The longtime CEO of the Sierra Fund is getting ready to call it a career. Elizabeth “Izzy” Martin has announced her intention to retire from a job she’s held for nearly twenty years. Speaking from the Nevada City office, Program Director Carrie Monohan says she’ll be missed…

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Martin has helped put together a report urging new tools for cleaning up contamination from abandoned gold mines. In a statement, she says the Sierra Fund has emerged from the pandemic strong and ready to serve as the state’s leading advocate to restore resilience to the ecosystems and communities of the Sierra Nevada for the next twenty years. She says with things going so well, now is the perfect time to transition to a new leader. Monohan says it will be challenging to find a replacement…

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Martin will stay on until a new CEO is hired.