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May 5 (Sun.) 10:00 a.m. - “GOLD RUSH HISTORY WALK” "The community of Horsetown was established near the second major gold discovery in California at Reading’s Bar on Clear Creek during the gold rush of 1849. Enjoy a pleasant spring walk with a view of that site with Preserve Board Member Cathy Scott. Learn about...
Lillian Nelson Nature Preserve Field Trip Friday, May 10th at 8:30am Read directions below for meetup location! Please join us for a visit to Lillian Nelson Nature Preserve, a privately owned 30-acre conservation easement managed by Shasta Land Trust. The Western Shasta RCD in partnership with Point Blue Conservation Science is currently implementing grant-funded...
Hornbeck Trail Walk with BLM Ecologist Saturday, May 11th, 2024 at 9am SEA has organized a field trip to be led by BLM Ecologist Brooke Thompson on the Hornbeck Trail north of Redding to talk about the proposed fire treatment planned for the area. Brooke will explain the ecology of the area, how it has...
May 11 (Sat.) 10am-2pm -- TRAIL MIXER AT SWASEY RECREATION AREA (Off Delano Drive) Our friends at Redding Trail Alliance are hosting this event, which is completely free for both booth hosts and participants. (for more about this organization, see www.reddingtrailalliance.org) Stop by the HCCP booth and say hello! This event will be at the...
May 18 (Sat.) 10:00 A.M. - “HISTORIC HORSETOWN PHOTO” "In 1849, a group of hopeful prospectors arrived at the site of Reading’s Bar on Clear Creek, and by 1850 the census identified 1,000 inhabitants of what became One Horse Town (Horsetown). For many years HCCP has hoped to locate an historical photograph of the town...
NEW DATE (rescheduled from May 4th cancellation) Phillips Brothers Mill Tour Saturday, May 25th at 8 am Meet at the Mt. Shasta Mall Parking lot $25 per person This will be a field trip to the historic Phillips Brothers Mill, a steam-powered sawmill and box factory operated off the grid that is on the National...
Clear Creek Trail Cleanup Saturday, June 1, 8 am Clear Creek Gorge Parking Lot Shasta Environmental Alliance will be conducting a quarterly cleanup and trail maintenance day on a two-mile section of trail In the Clear Creek Greenway on Saturday. This will be a light cleanup, no homeless campsites. Meet at the Clear Creek...
Cold Boiling Lake and Flowing Meadows (Lassen Volcanic National Park) Monday, July 8, 2024, 8 am Meet at the Chase Bank in the Mt. Shasta Mall Parking lot To escape the heat of the valley, we will head up to much cooler weather in Lassen Volcanic National Park for this joint CNPS/SEA wildflower walk. This...
Echo Lake Hike (Lassen Volcanic National Park) Saturday, July 13, 2024, 8 am This is a 4 to 4.5-mile out-and-back hike to Echo Lake, following a heavily forested trail with open areas to a small lake. Starting out in the morning, this joint CNPS/SEA field trip will primarily be a social hike, but we will...
SEA/CNPS Nature Walk and BioBlitz for California Biodiversity Week When: Sunday, September 8th, 9 am - 11 am Where: Nur Pon Open Space (2502 Henderson Rd, Redding, CA) Join naturalist Juliet Malik and SEA board member Sarah Risher for a joint SEA/CNPS guided walk in this recently restored preserve to identify and document as many...
Sept 21st at 9 am Meet at the HCCP parking lot on Clear Creek Road just west of the Clear Creek Bridge. Volunteers will clean up a stretch of Clear Creek Road around the Preserve for 2 – 3 hours. We provide vests for visibility, tools to pick up small items, and garbage bags. Please...
SEA Clear Creek Cleanup on National Public Lands Day Clear Creek Gorge Parking lot Saturday, September 28th, 9 am Shasta Environmental Alliance will clean up the Clear Creek Trail upstream of the Clear Creek Gorge Parking lot on Saturday, September 28 at 9 am. We will have two crews: one group will be pruning...