Events

Saturday, October 12, 2024 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM McConnell Arboretum - 1100 Arboretum Dr, Redding Classroom building adjacent to the nursery Sign up by clicking here Presented by Rico Montenegro   Trees are a long-term investment and can be an asset rather than a liability around our homes, our parks, our streets, and our communities when… Read More »Resilient Roots: Tree Selection & Care in the Sun-Drenched Central Valley

California Rangelands: Measuring Their Environmental Importance Wednesday, October 16th, 6 pm  Redding Library Community Room Rangeland Monitoring Network: Measuring Soil, Plant, and Wildlife Habitat Health on California Rangelands Alicia Herrera, an ecologist with Point Blue Conservation Science, will present a talk on Point Blue’s Rangeland Monitoring Network (RMN) which seeks to understand and measure the… Read More »California Rangelands: Measuring Their Environmental Importance

Pilgrim Country Market (benefits SEA and SEACM) Saturday, October 19, 2024 From 10 am to 2 pm Location: Pilgrim Congregational Church - 2850 Foothill Blvd, Redding Admission: Free for all! Step into a world of rustic delights at the Pilgrim Country Market, where the magic of crafts, music, soup, and baked goods come together to… Read More »Pilgrim Country Market (benefits SEA and SEACM)

Walk Through Proposed 110-acre Development Quartz Hill Area Saturday, November 9, 9:30 am This walk will be through a natural area west of Quartz Hill Road that was burned by the Carr Fire and the City of Redding, using HUD money, plans to put in a 110-acre development of homes. The City will build all… Read More »Walk Through Proposed 110-acre Development (Quartz Hill area)

Sloppy Joe Hike (West Redding) Sunday, November 17, 2024 9:30am to Noon (approx.)   Come check out one of Redding’s newest trails with new SEA board member Juliet Malik. We will enter from the Country Heights neighborhood and walk a two-mile loop that goes through both riparian and oak woodland habitats. During this naturalist hike… Read More »Sloppy Joe Trail Hike (West Redding)

SEA Horsetown Clear Creek Preserve Hike Sunday, December 8th at 9:30 am Join Lisa Ross, SEA member and Preserve board member for a 3 mile winter hike. We will visit some less traveled upper loop trails at Horsetown for views and a look at how plants and wildlife have recovered six years after several fires.… Read More »SEA Horsetown Clear Creek Preserve Hike

NEW YEAR’S DAY FIELD TRIP January 1, 2025, 9:30 am This is our traditional, annual SEA/California Native Plant Society New Year’s Day hike up the Westside trail hike every year since 2008 although we may have canceled one year during the peak of the Covid outbreak. This a four-mile out and back hike to “Top… Read More »NEW YEAR’S DAY FIELD TRIP

Battle Creek Field Trip Saturday, January 11, 9:30 am Sign up for trip: https://forms.gle/Q1Kk77vVCS9P6Jmy6 For this field trip we will head to the Coleman Fish Hatchery and then hike up a paved road to the Coleman hydroelectric Powerhouse and then up a hill to the Coleman Forebay. Walk leader David Ledger will explain some of… Read More »Battle Creek Field Trip

Blue Gravel Mine Trail Walk Sunday, February 9, 2025, 10am-Noon SIGN UP HERE: https://forms.gle/oaeEJmqPMdumEHUe7 Join SEA board member and naturalist Juliet Malik on an easy, casual walk along the Blue Gravel Mine Trail in West Redding. This trail is accessible to most as it is paved with gentle slopes, though there is a notable incline… Read More »Blue Gravel Mine Trail Walk

Sunday, February 16, 2025 1:30 - 3:30 pm We will send out the meeting location once you sign up (first 15 people) Sign up here: https://forms.gle/iroeTZQikCrCCzES8 SEA and CNPS will be leading an educational field trip in the Boulder Creek and Churn Creek watersheds in a beautiful natural area in Redding city limits. Walk leader… Read More »Boulder Creek Area Walking Field Trip (SEA/CNPS)

Bailey Cove Loop Trail Shasta Lake Saturday, March 8, 9 am   This will be a beautiful and educational 3-mile walk around a small peninsula that juts out into Shasta Lake with a great variety of plants and different habitats on the loop trail.    It starts out in a mixed conifer forest, blends into… Read More »Bailey Cove Loop Trail Field Trip

Adopt-a-Highway Cleanup hosted by Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve Saturday, March 29, 2025 - 9am-12pm "Meet at the Preserve parking area on Clear Creek Road just west of the Clear Creek bridge at 9 am. We have bags, grabbers and safety vests. Our fun group will clean up trash on the roadside for 2-3 hours. no heavy… Read More »Adopt-A-Highway Cleanup (Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve)