2024 liability waiver info:
Both California Native Plant Society and Shasta Environmental Alliance require all field trip participants to sign an annual waiver of liability. Once signed, you will be covered for all events in 2024. Thank you!
- Shasta Chapter CNPS’s waiver can be signed here: WaiverSign.
- Shasta Environmental Alliance’s waiver can be signed here: Meetup.
Please join us for the following field trips, co-hosted by Shasta Chapter CNPS and Shasta Environmental Alliance (SEA).
Lillian Nelson Nature Preserve
Friday, May 10, 8:30 to 11:30 AM
- Please join us for a visit to Lillian Nelson Nature Preserve, a privately owned 30- acre conservation easement managed by Shasta Land Trust. The Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, in partnership with Point Blue Conservation Science, is currently implementing grant-funded restoration work. Projects include invasive red sesbania removal from Boulder Creek, a small meadow restoration, forest health improvement with fuel reduction, acorn planting, brush-pile habitat creation, bird box installation, and outdoor classroom maintenance. There will also be an opportunity to see beaver activity! Most of the walking will be easy, on flat ground. There are some sections with loose rock on the flat road, but nothing too difficult—it will all be fairly easy walking on established paths and trails. Meet at the yellow gate at the Preserve entrance on College View, Redding, just below the hill that goes up to Bethel Church. Heavy rain cancels; no dogs, please (service dogs on leash OK). Make sure you have signed both waivers for 2024 (see opening paragraph). For more information, please contact Jeremey Kelley at 530/921-1612.
Hornbeck Trail with BLM Ecologist
Saturday, May 11, 9 to 11 AM
- This field trip will be led by BLM Ecologist Brooke Thompson on the Hornbeck Trail north of Redding. Brooke has led several field trips for us before and has a passion for the natural world and always leads an informative walk. She will explain the ecology of the area, how it has been affected by fire suppression, and talk about alternatives for preserving the area and making it safer from catastrophic fire. Brooke also wants to hear input from you, the public, about their alternatives. This trail is in a mixed oak woodland and chaparral habitat, and we will identify native plants and non-native plants along the way. This will be a fairly easy walk of two to three miles and will take about two hours. After the field trip, those of us who are interested will take a short drive to the Quartz Hill Mine. Meet in the very large parking area at Hornbeck Trailhead, which is under the mega-powerlines on Quartz Hill Road, just east of Comstock Lane, Redding. For light rain, bring an umbrella; heavy rain cancels. Dogs OK on leash if you pick up after them. Make sure you have signed both waivers for 2024 (see opening paragraph). For more information, contact me at david@ecoshasta.org. ~David Ledger
