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Earth Day Festival

By on February 26, 2024 in

Join the fun at the second annual Earth Day celebration sponsored by the Shasta Environmental Alliance. The free event will be held at Caldwell Park from 11:00 to 4:00 and will feature kids’ activities, booths, music, and food. Last year’s event was held on a gorgeous spring day that was inspiring to all. Our group will have a booth again this year but with our new name, Shasta Birding Society, on our updated banner, tablecloth, and information. We are looking for members to help us staff the booth. If you are interested, please contact Education Chair Tricia Ford at triciathebirdnerd@gmail.com

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Shasta Environmental Alliance’s Environmental Champion Awards

By on December 5, 2021 in

Our own Bill Oliver will be honored at the Shasta Environmental Alliance’s Environmental Champion Awards this year! Bill was one of the founders of the local Wintu Audubon Society chapter in 1976. He has been President four different times, led countless bird walks, and has kept the statistics from the annual Redding Christmas Bird Count for 45 years. This bird count is important citizen science as it shows the population trends of different bird populations in an area over a long period of time.

The other honoree, director of Battle Creek Alliance & Defiance Canyon Raptor Rescue Marily Woodhouse, will give a presentation on the threats to our local forests.

You must register ahead of time for this event here: HTTPS://BIT.LY/3LJCATH

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Environmental Champions Awards

By on October 21, 2019 in
Wintu Audubon collaborates on local environmental efforts with the Shasta Environmental Alliance, (SEA) a consortium of North State conservation-oriented groups headed by David Ledger.  SEA will hold its first annual “Environmental Champions Awards” social at 6:30pm on Nov. 22 at the First United Methodist Church, 1825 East Street, Redding.  Refreshments will be available. A $10 admission fee is requested–all for a good cause!
Come celebrate some of the champions of local causes worth valuing!
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Made In The Shade

By on September 18, 2018 in
This film will be shown Friday, September 21st at 6:30pm at the First United Methodist Church, 1825 East St., Redding.  It is a documentary of how a group of Sacramento citizens in cooperation with the City of Sacramento and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District over a period of about 35 years planted almost 600,000 trees in an effort to provide more shade to the city and reduce the utilities peak electric demand from summer air conditioning as well as create an urban forest.  At the same time, these trees removed perhaps as much as 200,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, carbon which is now stored in the trees.  As the trees grow, more CO2 will be fixed in the trees.  The people who produced the film, all tree advocates will be in Redding on September 21st to show the film and explain how they did it.
 
To supplement this talk and make it relevant to Redding, Travis Menne of Redding Community Services will explain how the City of Redding has already planted 1,200 trees and are doing 1,000 more this fall, and 2,000 through 2019-2020.  He will also discuss a recent grant from CalFire which will allow the City to plant more street trees in downtown Redding.  Redding has a Re-Oak program to replace trees burned along our trails and in open spaces. Travis will discuss the acorn collection and planting of oak trees following the Carr Fire.
 
Questions from the audience and a panel discussion following the film show how Redding can start a large tree planting program and get a new Tree Ordinance that protects our native oaks.
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