Shasta Environmental Alliance News: December 2022

Tree-lined trail. 27 Nov 22. D. Burk.
Beautiful California native trees line a trail in the Rio Vista Unit of the USFWS Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge. Photo taken November 27, 2022, by Don Burk.

Redding Tree Committee’s first meeting to look at needed changes to the Redding Tree Management Ordinance is slated for 5:30 p.m on Monday, December 5, in City Hall’s Redding Community Room next to City Council Chambers. It will be the first of perhaps three meetings. As a Brown Act committee meeting, members of the public should be able to make comments. The formation of the Redding Tree Committee is a direct result of lobbying by the Shasta Chapter CNPS, Wintu Audubon Society, Sierra Club, and Shasta Environmental Alliance (SEA). Shasta Chapter CNPS Conservation Chair, David Ledger, is on the committee.

Don’t forget Shasta Chapter CNPS’s traditional New Year’s Day field trip on the Westside Trail to “Top of the World,” which this year is being led by Shasta Environmental Alliance. It’s a four-mile, easy to moderate hike. We start at the end of Kilkee Drive, Redding, at 9 a.m. For more information, email david@ecoshasta.org. Heavy rain or snow cancels; otherwise dress for the weather!

For more Shasta Environmental Alliance news, please see our December newsletter,
SEA Newsletter December 2022. ~David Ledger, SEA President

Valley oak. 27 Nov 22. D. Burk.
Valley oak, Quercus lobata, in all its autumn finery, on a trail in the Rio Vista Unit of the USFWS Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge. Photo taken November 27, 2022, by Don Burk.