Events

BLM Restoration Field Trip with SEA Saturday, July 1, 8:00 am Email david@ecoshasta.org to sign up Shasta Environmental Alliance (SEA) will be sponsoring a field trip led by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ecologist Brooke Thompson at a 426-acre property on the Sacramento River near Battle Creek. This will be more of a driving and… Read More »BLM Restoration Field Trip with SEA

Heart Lake & Castle Lake Hike (Mt. Shasta Area) Saturday, July 15, 8 am   Heart Lake has one of the most beautiful views of Mt. Shasta in our area and we can’t wait to have you join us for this three-mile moderate-difficulty hike to get to it! The climb is relatively steep in parts… Read More »Heart Lake Hike (Mt. Shasta Area)

Caldwell Lake Field Trip Saturday, July 22, 8 am This 4-mile round trip, joint SEA/CNPS field trip in the Scott Mountains is in an alpine area, has an elevation gain of 1300’, and will be saturated with lush meadows as well as views of both Mt. Shasta and Mt. Eddy.  The serpentine-influenced vegetation on this… Read More »Caldwell Lake Field Trip w/CNPS

Paradise Meadow Hike Lassen Volcanic National Park Saturday, August 5 at 8 am Join us in hiking to the beautiful Paradise Meadow, a three-mile hike of moderate difficulty starting at 6400 ft. elevation! We’ll make our way to the meadows for lunch and continue up the trail afterward for about half a mile to observe… Read More »Paradise Meadow Hike (Lassen Volcanic National Park)

When: Sunday, September 10, 2023, 9:00am-11:00am Where: Sacramento River Trail, South Diestelhorst Bridge Trailhead Hosted by: Shasta Environmental Alliance and Certified California Naturalists, Juliet Malik and Linda Carter Be a community nature scientist by contributing to the California Biodiversity Week 30x30 Challenge hosted by iNaturalist! The goal of this bioblitz is to find and document… Read More »California’s Biodiversity Day Species Identification – Redding!

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 lot adjacent to the Dam at 9:00 am. We will be looking for late summer visitors, early waterfowl and shorebirds and the usual forest residents. From Redding,… Read More »Lake McCumber Birding (Wintu Audubon Event)