2025 liability waiver info:
California Native Plant Society requires all field trip participants to sign an annual waiver of liability. Once signed, you will be covered for all events in 2025. Thank you!
- Shasta Chapter CNPS’s 2025 waiver can be signed here: WaiverSign.
Join the Shasta Chapter CNPS, along with friends from the local Sierra Club and Friends of Jenny Creek, for outdoor learning opportunities this November.
Photo by Chris Harvey.
Meiner’s Gulch Trail
Swasey Recreation Area
Monday, November 10, 10 AM
- The Shasta Group of Sierra Club, with support from Shasta Chapter CNPS, will lead a field trip on the Meiner’s Gulch Trail in the Swasey Recreation Area, west of Redding. This is an easy trail of less than 3 miles with lots to see, especially the great recovery of trees and shrubs following the Carr Fire. This will be a good time to learn plant identification in the fall. Bird’s-foot fern and rock polypody fern still grow here, and the regrowth of the gray pines is quite prolific. For those who wish, we can also take a short visit to a large-scale, hard rock mining operation from the 1850s. This hike should be easy for most hikers and is considered 1A (easy) by the Sierra Club. Rain cancels; for light drizzle bring an umbrella. Dogs on leash okay if you clean up after them. Meet at the west end of Delano Street off Swasey Drive in the Swasey Recreation Area. You will need to sign a waiver at the trailhead. For more information, contact walk leader David Ledger at dsledger49@gmail.com.
Jenny Creek Open Space
Field Trip and Barbeque
Saturday, November 15, 10 AM
- Join the Shasta Chapter of the California Native Plant Society and Friends of Jenny Creek on a field trip through the Jenny Creek Open Space to see the birds and plants of this natural area. This is where the City of Redding is proposing a 16-foot-wide paved concrete trail, lighted at night, next to one of the dwindling natural areas in the city limits that includes a stream with salmon and steelhead trout. This is your chance to learn about it. CNPS will lead the walk, and Friends of Jenny Creek will provide a free barbeque and socialization afterward, at a private home in the neighborhood. The Shasta Group of Sierra Club also supports the preservation of this natural area.
This will be a two-part walk. The first part will be in a fairly level and easy area of the Open Space. People with greater agility can take the second part: it is somewhat more difficult, due to uneven terrain and steep slopes. Others can socialize, or just do the first part and head to the fun and food at a nearby home, hosted by Friends of Jenny Creek. For the walking part, you must sign the online waiver here: WaiverSign.
For those of you who want to learn more about how to protect this important habitat, plan to listen to the start of the field trip and then visit with members of Friends of Jenny Creek afterward. For more information, contact walk leader David Ledger at dsledger49@gmail.com or Marcia McGetrick-West at friendsofjennycreek@gmail.com. Dogs on leash okay if you clean up after them. Rain will postpone this event until Tuesday, November 18. Please email us if you plan to attend so we have an idea of how many to plan for. Meet at the TR Woods Park on Royal Oaks Drive at 10 AM.
For more information about any of the above events, please email me at dsledger49@gmail.com. ~David Ledger, Field Trip Chair