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Phillips Brothers Mill Tour (May 2024)
Photos by David Ledger and Brigitte Robertson The SEA field trip to the Phillips Brothers Mill was a fascinating and informative tour led by family member Greg Hendrix, the current family patriarch who has been working at the mill since he was 10 years old. He started the tour with a look at an old…
Trip Report: Sloppy Joe Spring Edition
We had a small group of 7 hikers on April 13th who joined Juliet Malik for a 3.5 mile hike along the Sloppy Joe and T-Party trails in west Redding. It was a beautiful spring morning with plenty of green growth and emerging wildflowers along the seasonal creek and in the oak woodland. Some highlights…
Nur Pon Open Space Field Trip
This October 22 field trip at Nur Pon Open Space in Redding brought about 20 plant lovers out to a pleasant cool morning once the wind died down. This area has been highly disturbed by man over the last 130 years, and it has a very high concentration of non-native or exotic plants. For this…
Trip Report: Families in the Forest
by Holly White-Wolfe (Guest Author) On Sunday, October 26, SEA volunteers Holly White-Wolfe and Juliet Malik led a joyful “Families in the Forest” outing along Clear Creek in Redding, CA. Despite the rain, two families—three children and four adults—bundled up and shared umbrellas while exploring Horsetown Preserve. Children eagerly trotted down the trails, identifying pine…
Trip Report: Cloverdale Loop Jan 2026
On January 4, a steady rain greeted SEA’s first hike of 2026, but this was of little concern for the small group that joined naturalist Juliet Malik for this 1.7-mile hike that features a seasonal creek, an overlook of Clear Creek, and abundant evidence of recovery from the 2018 Carr Fire. While the muddy trail…
Trip Report: The Extraordinary Caterpillar
We truly had a blast at our screening of The Extraordinary Caterpillar film at the Riverfront Playhouse on July 12. Along with us were representatives of the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, the Shasta Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, and Ghost Pine Native Plant Nursery, set up in the lobby hosting a plethora…
