Tree Identification Walk in Caldwell Park

Photo by David Ledger of Penstemon (blurry but beautiful still!) This field trip near Shasta Lake and above the Sacramento River provides a gentle climb of 700 feet in a vegetative habitat of mixed conifer, oak woodland, and chaparral over a 2.3-mile upward climb to the top and a 4.6-mile total hike. The field trip…

Photo by David Ledger The SEA field trip to the proposed Jenny Creek trail in the City of Redding Open Space in early November was enjoyed by a small group of people including several Wintu Audubon members who were able to identify the many birds we saw on this walk. We started in the LR…

For this mid-morning field trip, we walked upstream next to Paynes Creek and an adjacent water ditch which was being converted into storm drain-sized pipes. The walk was between two habitats: the rich soil of the Paynes Creek floodplain on one side, a hillside of dry grasslands, and a few scattered shrubs and blue oaks…

With rain predicted all day, turnout was expected to be low for the Waters Gulch Field Trip, but Ashton Smith, Spencer Henderson, and walk leader David Ledger were willing to forge ahead with the help of umbrellas on this trail with an amazing diversity of plant life. The first section of the trail is a…