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).
Native Plant Driving Tour, Millville Plains and Beyond
Sunday, April 14, 1:30 PM
- UPDATED! Due to construction work by PGE on Whiskey Creek Road, all the flowers and shrubbery are thrashed along the roadside. So instead, this field trip will be a drive-and-stop outing to identify wildflowers, shrubs, and trees of Millville Plains, Parkville Road, and Dersch Road near the proposed Patrick Jones gun range, and on to Black Butte Road in Inwood. Overall, there is a great variety plants to see, from vernal pool plants to lower montane habitat: lots of great wildflowers, shrubs, and trees will be in bloom. Limited to 15 participants; reserve your spot on SEA’s Meetup.com page. Make sure you have signed both waivers for 2024 (see opening paragraph). We will meet in the Holiday Market parking lot near CVS on Placer and Buenaventura, Redding. We strongly encourage carpooling, but it is not required, and you can head back to Redding at anytime. Bring camera, hat, water and snacks. For more information, email david@ecoshasta.org.
Hog Lake Plateau, Sacramento River Bend Recreation Area
Sunday, April 21
- Hog Lake Plateau is one of the best places in the North State to be wowed by amazing arrays of spring wildflowers, as well as many bird species. We will visit Hog Lake itself—in fact a very large vernal pool—and at least one other smaller pool in the blue oak woodlands above. This field trip is a follow-up to our April 18 Chapter meeting presentation by Greg Lockett, Hog Lake and Environs, in which he shares his gorgeous photography of this beautiful area and its botanical denizens. Be prepared for ~2 miles of mostly, if not entirely, off-trail walking in very rocky and very possibly muddy conditions. Hiking poles may come in handy! Wear appropriate footwear, and bring water and lunch or snacks. Make sure you have signed both waivers for 2024 (see opening paragraph). For light rain, bring an umbrella; heavy rain cancels. Dogs OK on leash if you pick up after them. Please RSVP to shastacnps@gmail.com to receive time and location details.
Native Plant Walk, Redding Arboretum
Tuesday, April 23, 9 AM
- Learn to identify native plants in your own “backyard” on a short loop trail on the northwest side of the Sacramento River. Walk leader David Ledger will identify native plants of the area and discuss their unique characteristics. For those new to native plant identification, you can learn the common trees, shrubs, and wildflowers on this easy two-mile walk. David will also briefly explain photosynthesis and water movement from the roots to the highest leaf in a plant. Limited to 20 participants; reserve your spot on SEA’s Meetup.com page. Make sure you have signed both waivers for 2024 (see opening paragraph). We will meet under the huge oak tree across from the Turtle Bay parking lot by the service road and sidewalk to the Sundial Bridge. For light rain, bring an umbrella; heavy rain cancels. Dogs OK on leash if you pick up after them. For more information, email david@ecoshasta.org.
For more information about any of the above field trips, please contact me at david@ecoshasta.org. ~David Ledger
