The City of Redding will install a new water pumping plant in the Sacramento River just upstream of the old pumping house near the trail restrooms starting sometime in 2025. This project will have some beneficial and detrimental effects on the environment and the Draft Environmental Impact Report which is now under revision before the…
Photo: Wetland area of Quartz Hill Project; by David Ledger SEA recently led a small field trip of nine people on 110 acres of land that the City of Redding is developing in part with funding help from the Department of Housing and Development. This property sits just west of the River Ridge Subdivision and…
By David Ledger Several months ago Robert Sid posted on his Facebook page that trees are dying in the Mt. Shasta Mall parking lot. I drove over to the Mall to check it out and found out he was right. Trees are dead, dying, and highly stressed. There are 14 completely dead trees, 18 almost…
Photos by Doug Mandel Article by Juliet Malik On Sunday, November 17th, new SEA board member Juliet Malik led a group of 13 SEA and CNPS people out for a cool, fall morning hike along sections of the Sloppy Joe, Canyon Hollow, and T-Party trail complex in West Redding. This naturalist-focused hike started along Canyon…
Reminder: Urging Sáttítla (Medicine Lake Highlands) Monument StatusMeet SEA’s Newest Board Member: Juliet MalikPilgrim Fall Festival a Success
Photo (above) by Brooke Thompson Article By Kathy Grissom On October 11th and 12th, there was a large turnout for the Rancho Breisgau Riparian Restoration project, with volunteers planting about 2,500 during these two days! The Bureau of Land Management and River Partners, with support from the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, joined in a…
Photo of Alicia Herrera – by David Ledger Redding residents were treated to an in-depth report on monitoring soil, plant, and wildlife habitat on California Rangelands by Alicia Herrera, an ecologist with Point Blue Conservation Science. After her talk, Jonathon Freeman of the Native Roots Network gave us an update on the Medicine Lake (Sattitla)…
Report: Redding City Council Candidates ForumSáttítla (Medicine Lake Highlands) CampaignTrip Report: BioBlitz at Nur PonTrip Report: Clear Creek CleanupReport: Bonnie Raitt ConcertReport: Redding Storm Drain Utility
Striving to meet new California standards for storm drains The Redding Storm Drain Utility, part of the Public Works Department, gave an informative talk to SEA and the public at a meeting on October 1. Mieke Sheffield, Storm Water Management Program Coordinator, reviewed new California standards for cities with populations over 10,000. By 2030, all…
Photo by Doug Mandel This joint SEA/CNPS field trip had ten people join walk leaders Juliet Malik and Sarah Risher for the Bioblitz Nature Walk at Nur Pon Open Space on September 8th. There were both new and familiar faces, all contributing to the identification and discussion of the various plants, birds, and insects present….
Photo of Steve Clinton and Melissa Harbert with BLM T-shirt – by David Ledger Saturday, September 28th was National Lands Day and, working with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), SEA led a cleanup crew of 14 or more volunteers on the Clear Creek Trail from the Gorge Parking lot upstream to Horsetown with a…
Little Glass Mountain, Medicine Lake Highlands, northeastern California. Cloud-enshrouded Mt. Shasta on far right horizon. Photo taken June 24, 2009, by Michael McCullough, and used in compliance with license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Deed. SEA is working directly with the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) staff and other local, state, and national groups as a local…
