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Action Alert: California’s Urban Forest Plan
Cal Fire’s Urban Forest Plan Is Open for Comment. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has published a draft plan to expand the urban tree canopy statewide by 10% before 2035. Public comments are open through April 30. For Shasta County residents, the plan has significant gaps that deserve attention before the comment…
Action Alert: Public Comment on the Redding Riverfront Plan
The City of Redding has started a formal process to decide what will be studied in the Environmental Impact Report EIR for the Redding Riverfront Specific Plan. This step is called scoping. Scoping happens before the Draft EIR is written. At this stage, the City is asking what issues, locations, and types of impacts must…
Watershed Moment: The Future of the Redding Riverfront
At the May 20th City Council meeting, Redding advanced the draft Riverfront Specific Plan, moving it forward despite strong public opposition to key development proposals. The Council voted to continue refining concepts that include dismantling the Civic Auditorium, converting part of Highway 44 into a city boulevard, and allowing high-density housing and commercial development on…
No Shade, No Relief: The Cost of Losing Our Urban Forest
As temperatures climb and Redding faces longer, hotter summers, preserving urban shade should be a top priority. But on May 20, the Redding City Council voted unanimously against implementing mitigation fees for removing native oaks during development—choosing not to hold developers accountable for canopy loss. This vote wasn’t just procedural. It was a clear message:…
Earth Day 2025 Success
After many months of planning and organizing by several dedicated volunteers from the Earth Day Committee and with help from over a dozen day-of volunteers the 2025 Earth Day Festival was a resounding success. The SEA hosted event was on April 19th where over 40 booths consisted of a diverse roster of organizations, nonprofit groups,…
Redding Loses Street Trees on Liberty Street
Photos by David Ledger – above photo: sidewalk buckling from tree roots on Liberty Street Recently, all the street trees on a long block of Liberty Street next to Trinity Street in Redding were cut down, however, it was for the right reasons. All the trees were Liquidambar, a tree with very shallow roots. The…
