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Shasta Land Trust Goes Local for Annual Wildways Kickoff Party
Shasta Land Trust is highlighting local food, local wine and beer, local artists, and local businesses at the annual Wildways Kickoff party, at 6 p.m. on February 23rd, 2013, at the Redding Senior Citizens’ Hall. Tickets for the event go on sale at 9 a.m. Monday, February 4, and can be purchased at www.shastalandtrust.org, by calling 241-7886, or [...]
Shasta Land Trust to host Great Sierra River Cleanup Event
Shasta Land Trust is hosting our 4th annual local river cleanup from 9:00am to noon on Saturday, September 15, 2012. Over 40 volunteers will remove trash and recyclables from Churn Creek, in east Redding. Volunteers will converge on Churn Creek and haul away tires, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, cigarette butts, various household items, and more [...]
Shasta Land Trust on Track to Buy Railroad Right-of-Way in Shasta, Siskiyou Counties
Shasta Land Trust (SLT) and its partners proudly announce an agreement has been signed to purchase a railroad right-of-way between McCloud (in Siskiyou County) and Burney (in Shasta County), a property known as the McCloud Railway. The agreement, signed by SLT and the property’s owner, 4 Rails, Inc, will ultimately lead to establishment of a [...]
Conversation With Ben Miles, Shasta Land Trust Director: … About Saturday’s Wildways Kickoff Party
Today I talk with Ben Miles, Shasta Land Trust’s executive director, about Saturday’s Wildways event in Redding. Miles has been the SLT’s director since 2008. He holds a Master of Science degree in Environmental Science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He grew up on a small farm in central Kentucky, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from [...]
2012 Shasta Land Trust’s Wildways Kickoff Party: “Picnic at the Ranch”
Sliders made from locally raised beef, local wines and beer, an auction featuring artwork and craft items made by local artists, and music provided by the local Prima Donna Bongo Band: Local is truly the word for Shasta Land Trust’s annual Wildways Kickoff party, scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, February 25, at [...]
Tickets Available for Shasta Land Trust’s Annual Wildways Kickoff Party
Shasta Land Trust is highlighting local food, local wine and beer, local artists, and local businesses at the annual Wildways Kickoff party, scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. on February 25 at the Redding Senior Citizens’ Hall. Tickets for the event go on sale at 9 a.m. Monday, February 6, at the Shasta Land Trust [...]
Shasta Land Trust to Host 3rd Annual Great Sierra River Cleanup Event
Shasta Land Trust will be holding our 3rd annual local river cleanup from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, September 17, 2011. This year’s location will be Cascade Park, in south Redding, where over 50 volunteers are expected to converge on Olney Creek and the Sacramento River to haul away plastic bottles, aluminum cans, cigarette [...]
Trail Crews Peak On Kanaka
We serious journalists would never write a story simply as an excuse to run a photograph. Except that’s what I’m doing right now, and here’s why. Just about anyone who has ever scaled Kanaka Peak on the seat of a mountain bike, in the saddle of a horse or on their own two feet feels [...]
Muletown Performs at Redding’s Yaks Live Art Series
The Muletown String Band recently returned from its fabulously fun mini-tour of Oregon and now we’re set to perform a little closer to home. We hope you can join us. At 8 p.m. Friday at Discovery Village (on Dana Drive in Redding), Muletown performs as part of the Yaks Live Art series. We’re pleased to be a featured artist with Yaks Coffee Shops, which is selling our new CD in their Redding stores. On Saturday night, Muletown performs a two-band concert with Paul Blackwell and members of ROMA as a benefit for the Shasta Land Trust.
One Cool Breath Before Summertime
This coming weekend feels like the last chance to breathe for a while. Sure, there are things going on, including ArtHop in downtown and “uptown” Redding and the Redding Rodeo Association kickoff barbecue on Saturday evening at the rodeo grounds. But things are going to start getting hectic. Next week is Redding Rodeo Week, which, [...]