Events

Saturday, September 16, 9 a.m. Volunteers will clean up a stretch of Clear Creek Road around the Preserve for 2 – 3 hours. We provide vests for visibility, tools to pick up small items and garbage bags. Please bring gloves. We meet at the HCCP parking area on Clear Creek Road with lunch/snacks on us… Read More »Adopt-A-Highway Cleanup (Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve)

Native Plant Identification and Leaf Morphology Saturday, September 16, 9:30 AM Nur Pon Open Space Preserve (changed from Whiskeytown)   Co-sponsored by Shasta Chapter CNPS and Shasta Environmental Alliance, this series of three field trips will focus on native plant identification from a more academic perspective.  This first class will focus on leaves; the other two will focus on different… Read More »Native Plant Identification and Leaf Morphology

Saturday, September 23, 9 a.m. The Bureau of Land Management, Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve, and Western Shasta Resource Conservation District are sponsoring National Public Lands Day along the Lower Clear Creek Greenway. Volunteers are asked to help clean up and repair damaged areas along the Greenway - including picking up trash, removing graffiti, repairing hiking trails,… Read More »National Public Lands Day Clean Up (Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve)

Join SEA at our newly-adopted stretch of the Clear Creek Trail on Saturday, September 23rd at 9 am to help clean up the creek and trail on 2023's National Lands Clean-Up Day! We will meet at the Clear Creek Gorge parking lot.   Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve (HCCP) will also be holding a clean-up to celebrate… Read More »SEA National Lands Clean-Up Day

October 1, 2023 (Sun.) 10 a.m. Kody Shellhouse, a geologist with the Bureau of Land Management, will take us on a hike around Clear Creek on trails near the Gorge Overlook. Enjoy the fresh air and exercise while you learn about the rocky history of the local area. This is a new location and new… Read More »Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve Geology

Northern Saw-whet Owl Banding (Wintu Audubon event) October 6th @ 6:00 pm "Curious about Northern Saw-whet owl migration and monitoring techniques?! And/or do you love car camping?! Join us under the stars on Friday, October 6th for a night of small owl banding and car camping at Lassen National Park! Erika Iacona will lead us… Read More »Northern Saw-whet Owl Banding (Wintu Audubon event)

Lake McCumber Birding (Wintu Audubon Event) October 7th @ 9:00 am On Saturday October 7th we will be birding Lake McCumber with our trip leader David Garza. Meet in the parking… Read More »Lake McCumber Birding (Wintu Audubon Event)

Kum Bay Xerel Trail Field Trip Sacramento River, South Redding Thursday, October 12, 2023, 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. This field trip will be both a bird and plant identification… Read More »Kum Bay Xerel Trail Field Trip

Newville Ponds – Burris Creek at Black Butte Lake Recreation Area (Wintu Audubon event) October 14th @ 7:30 am We will meet at the parking lot for Newville Ponds which… Read More »Newville Ponds – Burris Creek at Black Butte Lake Recreation Area (Wintu Audubon event)

"Trees are a long-term investment and can be an asset rather than a liability around our homes, our parks, and streets and around our communities when several factors are considered… Read More »Trees: How to Select, Place and Care for Trees for our Hot and Drought Prone Northern Central Valley region (Turtle Bay)

October 14, 2023 (Sat.) 10 a.m. - “GOLD RUSH HISTORY WALK” The community of Horsetown was established near the second major gold discovery in California at Reading’s Bar on Clear… Read More »Gold Rush History Walk (Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve)

Presented by North State Climate Action 2040