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After many months of planning and organizing by several dedicated volunteers from the Earth Day Committee and with help from over a dozen day-of volunteers the 2025 Earth Day Festival was a resounding success. The SEA hosted event was on April 19th where over 40 booths consisted of a diverse roster of organizations, nonprofit groups,…
Photos by David Ledger – above photo: sidewalk buckling from tree roots on Liberty Street Recently, all the street trees on a long block of Liberty Street next to Trinity Street in Redding were cut down, however, it was for the right reasons. All the trees were Liquidambar, a tree with very shallow roots. The…
By David Ledger The decision on the Hawes Ranch zoning change from Agriculture to Commercial Recreation was approved in concept in a compromise decision by the Shasta County Board of Supervisors at its February 25 marathon meeting. The Supervisors, on a 5/0 vote, moved to send it back to the Planning Department to remove the…
Photo: The stumps of three large redwood trees in front of Umpqua Bank that have been recently cut down SEA has been working on a new tree ordinance since when we incorporated as an organization in 2017. On Dec 5, 2022, the first meeting of the Redding Tree Committee was established and SEA Board members…
Photo: Just one half of the audience at the meeting in Weed by Doug Mandel Article by David Ledger JUST RELEASED: President Biden more than likely to make Sáttítla a National Monument! Click here to read more There was no need for organizers in support of the National Monument status for Sáttítla (Medicine Lake Highlands) to…
Photo: Mountain of dirt piled up at Hawes Ranch by David Ledger As many of you may know from our Action Alert, a hearing on the proposed Hawes Ranch Amusement Park came up with little warning from the Planning Department. The notice for the public hearing at the Board of Supervisors came out with a…
Presentation to City Council The project team will be presenting a major update on the Redding Riverfront Specific Plan to the City Council on December 3, 2024. This presentation is a key milestone for our community, and all residents are encouraged to attend or tune in! What’s on the Agenda? The team will be covering…
Photo: One of three local slash piles waiting to be burned in the Shingletown area. Following a logging operation, timber companies are left with decisions of what to do with huge piles of slash left over: either burn it on site, haul it to a plant such as Wheelabrator to burn for electricity, or chip…
As you enter Redding, the last of the oak groves will soon be cut down to make way for yet another gas station at the I-5 Churn Creek/Rancho Road. There are currently three gas stations at that intersection, plus a Shell Station and the huge 16-station, 32-pump Costco gas station on the west side of…
The City of Redding will install a new water pumping plant in the Sacramento River just upstream of the old pumping house near the trail restrooms starting sometime in 2025. This project will have some beneficial and detrimental effects on the environment and the Draft Environmental Impact Report which is now under revision before the…
By David Ledger Several months ago Robert Sid posted on his Facebook page that trees are dying in the Mt. Shasta Mall parking lot. I drove over to the Mall to check it out and found out he was right. Trees are dead, dying, and highly stressed. There are 14 completely dead trees, 18 almost…
Photo (above) by Brooke Thompson Article By Kathy Grissom On October 11th and 12th, there was a large turnout for the Rancho Breisgau Riparian Restoration project, with volunteers planting about 2,500 during these two days! The Bureau of Land Management and River Partners, with support from the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, joined in a…