2026 STAGE EcoShasta | S.E.A.

Birding with Friends
2023-04-15 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Hosted by the Wildlife Society – Sacramento Shasta Chapter and Shasta Wildlife Rescue
10:00 a.m. – talk about local wildlife from Shasta Wildlife Rescue
11:00 a.m. – join Shasta Wildlife Rescue for some birding in Anderson River Park!
Where: 3752 Rupert Rd., Anderson, CA (park by the Shasta Wildlife Rescue building)
The Shasta Wildlife Rescue will give a talk around 10 AM on wildlife rescue, what to do if folks find injured wildlife, and maybe show an education animal if available. Once that is done (and depending on how many folks attend) we’ll break up into smaller groups and take folks birding around Anderson River Park. I’m hoping to have some chapter volunteers available to lead small groups.
Questions? Email sac.shasta@gmail.com

Buckeye Water Treatment Plant Tour
2023-04-06 09:30 - 11:30
Buckeye Water Treatment Plant Tour
Old Shasta
Thursday, April 6, 9:30 am
This field trip will be limited to the first 20 people who sign up. To reserve a space, email david@ecoshasta.org

Shasta Environmental Alliance has arranged for a tour of the City of Redding Buckeye Water Treatment Plant in the hills north of Old Shasta and above Keswick Reservoir. We will meet at the Holiday Market parking lot near CVS at Placer and Buena Ventura to carpool/caravan to the plant.
This plant treats water coming from Whiskeytown Lake from a penstock that runs from the lake, through Old Shasta, and continues on to the Keswick Power Plant on Iron Mountain Road. City staff will give us a complete tour and explanation of the operation of the plant. This plant also sits above the Spring Creek Reservoir storing water draining from Iron Mt. Mine.
The plant was kept running by city staff during the Carr Fire as it burned on both sides of it and on to the town of Keswick and Redding.

For an excellent article on how city staff saved the plant as the Carr Fire burned around it go to: Treatment Plant Operators: The Unsung Heroes of California’s Carr Fire
Again, this field trip will be limited to the first 20 people who sign up. To reserve a space, email david@ecoshasta.org

Turtle Bay Bird Sanctuary Walk
2023-04-06 09:00 - 11:00
Join Wintu Audubon Society for a walk on a mile of the Sacramento River Trail through the Turtle Bay Bird Sanctuary. Spring migration, the theme for this month’s walk, will be revving up as swallows, warblers, and orioles begin to stream northward to their breeding grounds. We will search the trees for their brilliant yellows and oranges.
Meet at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 6, in front of Branch House Riverfront Bistro near the main entrance to Turtle Bay Museum. We will spend two to three hours walking slightly over one mile of paved trail. Bathrooms can be accessed at Turtle Bay Museum.
Contact trip leader Tricia Ford at triciathebirdnerd@gmail.com for more information.

Millville Plains Wildflower Driving Field Trip
2023-04-02 13:30 - 17:30
Millville Plains Wildflower Driving Field Trip
Sunday, April 2, 1:30 pm

This will be a drive-and-stop tour of Millville Plains and a walk through the vernal pools near the old Lumber Jack. We will stop and identify plants along the road in Millville Plains and then stop at the vernal pools in Redding on our return.

An excellent field guide for this trip is Field Guide to the Vernal Pools of Mather Field by Carol Witham, if you can get a copy.

We will meet at the Mt. Shasta Mall parking lot near Chase Bank at 1:30 pm. No dogs on this field trip, please.
For more information, contact David Ledger at david@ecoshasta.org

Permaculture Influence
2023-04-01 10:00 - 12:00
Learn self-sufficient and sustainable agricultural practices at our workshop on April 1, from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at the Garden of Hope, 3626 Railroad Ave, Redding. There will be a $5.00 charge to cover materials and seeds. This workshop is sponsored by Shasta College, UCCE, and Providence International.
The workshop will be followed by plant starts swap for Garden Starts Co-Op for those who want to participate.
• Basic Permaculture Principles Backyard Chickens
• Goats/Small Ruminants
• Rain Harvesting
• Building your Soil
• Permaculture & Outdoor Living Space
For more info please call Shasta Master Gardeners at (530) 242-2219

CANCELED: Adopt-A-Highway Clean Up – Clear Creek
2023-04-01 09:00 - 13:00
*CANCELED DUE TO RAIN AND SAFETY CONCERNS*

Volunteers will clean up a stretch of Clear Creek Road around the Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve (HCCP). We will provide vests for visibility, tools to pick up small items, and garbage bags. PLEASE BRING GLOVES.

Lunch/snacks will be provided after the clean-up off-site at the Carl’s Jr. on Westside Road.

Meet at the HCCP parking area on Clear Creek Road, just west of the Clear Creek Bridge, for this event.

Nomlaki Trail Field Trip
2023-03-25 08:00 - 14:00
Nomlaki Trail Field Trip
Mendocino National Forest, Tehama County
Saturday, March 25, 8 am

The Nomlaki Trail in the foothills of Mendocino National Forest, west of Paskenta. It is a three-mile, easy-to-moderate roundtrip hike at 2000 ft. elevation. This trail has a wide diversity of serpentine plants and should have many new wildflowers as it recovers from a fire several years ago. This will be primarily a mixed chaparral field trip with a great understory of wildflowers. Time permitting, we will drive further up the road to a conifer zone.

Bring plenty of water, lunch, and gas money for ride-sharing. Dogs on leashes at all times are welcome. Meet at the CVS parking lot on Placer Street in Redding at 8 am to carpool to the trailhead.
For more information, contact David Ledger at david@ecoshasta.org

Post Carr Fire Vegetation Management Field Trip with BLM: Rescheduled
2023-03-18 09:00 - 13:00
Post Carr Fire Vegetation Management Field Trip with BLM: Rescheduled
Westside Trail (end of Kilkee Drive)
Saturday, March 18, 2023, 9 am
The Shasta Environmental Alliance and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) field trip was canceled due to snow, but it is rescheduled for March 18 at 9 am. This will be a walk-and-talk field trip on the West Side trail system to look at recent fuels reduction work. In the last few months, many people who hike and bike these trails have seen drastic changes to parts of the trail system. This is an opportunity to walk through various project zones and talk about different treatments’ short- and long-term impacts. We will look at untreated areas, more aggressively thinned areas, and modified treatment areas. Each zone has pros and
cons – and talking through it on the ground helps to explain the ins and outs of fuels management and ecosystem management.
This is an opportunity to learn from experts in the field. Hike leaders are Brooke Thompson, a BLM ecologist concerned about protecting native plants and wildlife on BLM lands, and Garrett Dunn, an experienced BLM Fire Management Officer. They will discuss the pros and cons of various fire treatment areas that we will walk through, from no fire treatment to heavy clearing. Your questions will be answered about fire recovery and the plants and animals of the Westside Trail complex during this walk-and-talk.
Meet at the Westside Trailhead at the end of Kilkee Drive on Saturday, March 18 at 9 am. This will be an easy two-to-three-mile walk. Bring good walking shoes and a water bottle. Light showers mean we will continue, but heavy rains will cancel. For more information, contact David Ledger at david@ecoshasta.org
