Great Shasta Rail Trail Closer to Reality

March 30, 2012

The Shasta Land Trust has spearheaded the effort to create the Great Shasta Rail Trail, and there’s been major recent progress. Here’s an excerpt from the Redding Record Searchlight: The owner of the McCloud River Railroad agreed Thursday to donate and sell 80 miles of railroad right of way to a Redding nonprofit agency that [...]

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Watershed Science Talks in Yreka, March 27th

March 22, 2012

Four women watershed specialists focus on watershed successes in Siskiyou County The public is invited to an educational panel presentation about local watershed successes with 4 women in watershed science working in Siskiyou County. Water Talks: Putting Watershed Pieces Together will be held Tuesday March 27th 2012 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the [...]

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Pacific Crest Trailside Reader Presentation on Saturday, March 24, at COS

March 19, 2012

The 2,650 mile long Pacific Crest Trail (or PCT) spans the length of the Western United States.  It traverses some of the most spectacular landscape on the planet from the high desert of the Mojave to the frigid, snow-covered North Cascades, from the lush forests of Oregon to the High Sierra.  There is little wonder [...]

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Shasta Valley Resource Conservation District Forums

March 17, 2012

This sounds quite interesting. Here’s the schedule for all the presentations: The SVRCD Public Forum schedules are as follows: Yreka:  March 23rd, 2012, 6 pm at the Holiday Inn Express Mount Shasta/ Dunsmuir:   March 26th, 2012, 6 pm at the Sisson Museum McCloud:  March 28th, 2012, 6 pm at Scott Hall Seiad Valley:  TBD For [...]

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Shasta Mountain Film Festival This Saturday Evening…

March 9, 2012

The evening offers stimulating films, bountiful raffles, delicious food and caring people, all in support of the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center. It happens this Saturday, March 10, 2012, at College of the Siskiyous. Here are descriptions of two of the featured films: The Wolf & the Medallion While climbing in the undeveloped valley of [...]

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What Should Be Priorities for the Mount Shasta Trail Association?

March 9, 2012

At our recent annual meeting, we had a big sign with the question “What should the Mt. Shasta Trail Association do?” Here were the answers that our members shared: Get signs for the Gateway Trail Complete Lake Siskiyou Lake Trail through the campground Start (complete) the around Mount Shasta trail More hikes with Joan Focus [...]

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Mount Shasta Trail Association 2011 Highlights

March 6, 2012

Here’s what Mount Shasta Trail Association president Joe Wirth said about the many MSTA accomplishments for 2011 during our recent annual meeting. He discusses the importance of partnerships and how that has been relevant to much of MSTA’s work. Joe Wirth’s Comments If I were to choose one word that characterizes the Mt. Shasta Trail [...]

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What You Can Do to Help Castle Crags State Park Open

March 4, 2012

As we know, Castle Crags State Park is currently closed. The Mount Shasta Trail Association, the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, and other groups and concerned individuals are working together to formulate a plan to open the park, at least for the months in and around summer when the park gets the most use. How [...]

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Rick Demarest Presentation on Exploring Slot Canyons of the Grand Canyon

February 24, 2012

This sounds really exciting! Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the Mount Shasta Resort. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

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Siskiyou Wanderers March 2012 Hiking Schedule

February 24, 2012

Here’s the March 2012 schedule for the Siskiyou Wanderers (reprinted with permission): Mar 1: Louie Rd: Yes, another road hike in Shasta Valley. We’ll stroll through rustic ranch land while gazing up at the mountain. Afterward we’ll head over to the Hart’s cozy cabin for a potluck. Theme tba. AD: 6-7 miles THE: 2600′ AEG: 400 [...]

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