Events

California Rangelands: Measuring Their Environmental Importance Wednesday, October 16th, 6 pm  Redding Library Community Room Rangeland Monitoring Network: Measuring Soil, Plant, and Wildlife Habitat Health on California Rangelands Alicia Herrera, an ecologist with Point Blue Conservation Science, will present a talk on Point Blue’s Rangeland Monitoring Network (RMN) which seeks to understand and measure the...

Pilgrim Country Market (benefits SEA and SEACM) Saturday, October 19, 2024 From 10 am to 2 pm Location: Pilgrim Congregational Church - 2850 Foothill Blvd, Redding Admission: Free for all! Step into a world of rustic delights at the Pilgrim Country Market, where the magic of crafts, music, soup, and baked goods come together to...

Walk Through Proposed 110-acre Development Quartz Hill Area Saturday, November 9, 9:30 am This walk will be through a natural area west of Quartz Hill Road that was burned by the Carr Fire and the City of Redding, using HUD money, plans to put in a 110-acre development of homes. The City will build all...

Sloppy Joe Hike (West Redding) Sunday, November 17, 2024 9:30am to Noon (approx.)   Come check out one of Redding’s newest trails with new SEA board member Juliet Malik. We will enter from the Country Heights neighborhood and walk a two-mile loop that goes through both riparian and oak woodland habitats. During this naturalist hike...

SEA Horsetown Clear Creek Preserve Hike Sunday, December 8th at 9:30 am Join Lisa Ross, SEA member and Preserve board member for a 3 mile winter hike. We will visit some less traveled upper loop trails at Horsetown for views and a look at how plants and wildlife have recovered six years after several fires....

NEW YEAR’S DAY FIELD TRIP January 1, 2025, 9:30 am This is our traditional, annual SEA/California Native Plant Society New Year’s Day hike up the Westside trail hike every year since 2008 although we may have canceled one year during the peak of the Covid outbreak. This a four-mile out and back hike to “Top...

Battle Creek Field Trip Saturday, January 11, 9:30 am Sign up for trip: https://forms.gle/Q1Kk77vVCS9P6Jmy6 For this field trip we will head to the Coleman Fish Hatchery and then hike up a paved road to the Coleman hydroelectric Powerhouse and then up a hill to the Coleman Forebay. Walk leader David Ledger will explain some of...

Blue Gravel Mine Trail Walk Sunday, February 9, 2025, 10am-Noon SIGN UP HERE: https://forms.gle/oaeEJmqPMdumEHUe7 Join SEA board member and naturalist Juliet Malik on an easy, casual walk along the Blue Gravel Mine Trail in West Redding. This trail is accessible to most as it is paved with gentle slopes, though there is a notable incline...

Sunday, February 16, 2025 1:30 - 3:30 pm We will send out the meeting location once you sign up (first 15 people) Sign up here: https://forms.gle/iroeTZQikCrCCzES8 SEA and CNPS will be leading an educational field trip in the Boulder Creek and Churn Creek watersheds in a beautiful natural area in Redding city limits. Walk leader...

Bailey Cove Loop Trail Shasta Lake Saturday, March 8, 9 am   This will be a beautiful and educational 3-mile walk around a small peninsula that juts out into Shasta Lake with a great variety of plants and different habitats on the loop trail.    It starts out in a mixed conifer forest, blends into...

Adopt-a-Highway Cleanup hosted by Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve Saturday, March 29, 2025 - 9am-12pm "Meet at the Preserve parking area on Clear Creek Road just west of the Clear Creek bridge at 9 am. We have bags, grabbers and safety vests. Our fun group will clean up trash on the roadside for 2-3 hours. no heavy...

April 6, 2025 9:00 am – 11:00 am "Join Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve alongside Fish Biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service(USFWS) to learn more about their juvenile salmon conservation and monitoring projects in our area. This is a family friendly event where you can view USFWS rotary screw trap operations on Clear Creek, a...