Power Shift 2013

Power Shift 2013 is coming, are you ready?

Catastrophic climate change threatens our future unlike any other generation.

So it’s no surprise that nearly one million of us spoke up this summer to send messages to President Obama thanking him for laying out a bold and practical vision for confronting the climate crisis.

After all, we are the generation who elected him twice and we are the generation who will lead

the fight with him. We are the generation who worked hard to transition 21 of the 60 coal plants

 on U.S. campuses to cleaner fuel. We have the power, we have the people, and we have a movement.

 

And now, all eyes are on us. Let's take this movement to the next level!

Next month, over 10,000 youth activists will gather in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania for Power Shift.

Leaders from across the country will host over 200 panels, trainings, and workshops to engage

and train the next generation of leaders that will change the world. Power Shift will be a spark

 point for thousands of young climate activists who will return home eager to take action and

make a difference.

 

Register now to take part in an all-star line-up of speakers from every corner of the youth movement including Sierra Student Coalition, Dream Defenders, 350.org and HBO’s Gasland.

 

Together we can build a stronger and more vibrant climate movement to fight fracking,

divest from fossil fuels, demand climate justice, and build a clean energy economy that

works for everyone.

 

See you in October,

Jennifer Edwards
National Online Organizer
Sierra Student Coalition

 

7th Annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival

For Immediate Release:
Friends of Butte Creek host the
7^th Annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival
Saturday, September 14^th
Sierra Nevada Brewery Big Room
Doors Open at 5:30 p.m. 

                                                                   

 

We are living in a "Climate of Change", as shown in the theme of this year's films.  These short, award winning, independently made movies show success and life changing impacts brought about by smart and creative innovations.
Friends of  Butte Creek is excited to offer Chico a great selection of films that were showcased in Nevada City this January.  Now is your opportunity to enjoy the best in the comfort of the Sierra Nevada Big Room!   Included in the Festival is the award winning RETURN TO THE FOREST:  The heartfelt story of the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation and its mission to return captive Asian elephants back to the wild in Thailand; saving them from abuse, exploitation, and extinction.  For your convenience, we’ve attached a flyer with ticket pricing and more details.

Again, it's a pleasure to partner up with Sierra Nevada Brewery to be able to bring the Friends of Butte Creek’s 7th Annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival.  Doors open at 5:30 PM and films start at 6:30 PM.  Music will be provided by COOPERS BLUFF, Butte Creek Canyon’s own Bluegrass duo. A Buffet Dinner will be available, and a great selection of items in the Silent Auction round out the evening.

Tickets are available at our website www.buttecreek.org, at Brown Paper Tickets.com, and may also be purchased in Chico at Pure Skin on 3rd Street, or at Chico Natural Foods Co-op on Main Street.   See you at the Festival!

Contact: Pamela Poseypamela@buttecreek.org
(530)893-0360

Dioxin Meeting a Success

 

On Wednesday, July 17, BEC staff met with members of the Community Advisory Board (CAB), a group of people that live and/or work in Oroville and have expertise or capacity to contribute to the upcoming Public Forum on Dioxin and research project.

The CAB so far consists of members from 

• Butte County Air Quality Management District,
• Butte County Environmental Health,
• the California Health Collaborative,
• Oroville Boys and Girls Club,
• and the Oroville Democratic Club.

The Forum is scheduled for Wednesday, July 31 at the Public Library in Oroville, 1820 Mitchell Ave. We've got an event onFacebook with more details.

Board discussions covered potential test strategies and the need to be very clear on known and potential dioxin sources, both industrial and domestic (the latter being primarily barrel burning, a significant source of dioxin). 

Advisory Board members identified what they could contribute to the Forum, and outreach to the community in general. Everybody learned something as we shared our specific expertise relating to the larger issue of dioxin in Oroville. Huge BEC thanks to all of the CAB members who attended the meeting; your generosity and your time is a real gift.

Raising Shasta Dam: Great For Water Contractors Not Good For Fish

Attend a hearing

Download the factsheet

The United States Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Shasta Lake Water Resources Investigation Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SLWRI DEIS).  It’s a long name for a simple but incredibly expensive and destructive idea – raising one of the tallest dams in California to expand what is already the largest reservoir in the state, supposedly to improve downstream river conditions for salmon and steelhead.

If the bizarre concept of a dam helping fish made your head spin, you’re not the only one confused by this oxymoron.

The Bureau claims that spending more than a billion dollars to raise Shasta Dam by 18.5 feet will provide additional water that will be used to provide cold water downstream for threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead. Apparently, no one at the Bureau realizes that Sacramento River salmon began their downward spiral towards extinction when Shasta Dam was completed in 1945, thereby blocking the river’s historic spawning grounds for salmon and steelhead and modifying downstream flows to the extent that the river no longer provides suitable fish habitat, particularly in drought years.

Here’s the real kicker – the Bureau hopes that you won’t find in the DEIS’ thousands of pages of analysis, general verbiage, and complex appendices a report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that states unequivocally that raising the dam will have negligible benefits for endangered fish. According to the USFWS, the raised dam will provide no fishery benefits 90% of the time. That’s because dams don’t produce water, they simply capture it when rain falls from the sky and flows downhill. If the rain doesn’t fall (as often happens during California’s chronic drought periods), there will be little or no additional water stored behind the raised dam to benefit salmon.

Also hidden in this massive document is the real reason for the dam raise – every extra drop of water stored behind the raised dam will be sold to federal water contractors downstream, with 77% of the water sold for export south of the Delta. Which means the Shasta Dam raise is directly tied the proposal by water contractors and Governor Jerry Brown to build enormous twin tunnels under the Delta, which will divert large amounts of fresh water from the Sacramento River (much of it stored upstream behind Shasta Dam) for export to large corporate farms in the San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Basin.

Friends of the River is still reviewing the current version of the DEIS. But our analysis of the preliminary DEIS last spring identified many more problems with this proposal, in addition to lack of fishery benefits, cost, and true purpose.

The dam raise and reservoir expansion will drown thousands of acres of National Forest land managed for recreation, fish, and wildlife. The expanded reservoir will drown the remaining homeland of Winnemen Wintu Tribe, who lost much of their tribal territory when Shasta Dam was constructed more than 65 years ago. Reservoir expansion will also destroy and degrade habitat for dozens of sensitive, threatened, and endangered plants and animals. The raised dam will further modify downstream flows, to the possible detriment of aquatic and riparian ecosystems along the Sacramento River important to fish and wildlife. The expansion itself violates state law protecting the free flowing condition and extraordinary values of the McCloud River. It also violates federal law that requires consideration of possible National Wild & Scenic River protection for segments of the McCloud, upper Sacramento, and Pit Rivers, as an alternative to expanding the dam.

Because of the size of the DEIS, we’re not yet prepared to ask people to send official comments in response to the documents. But the deadline for public comments is September 26, so there is plenty of time. Meanwhile, the Bureau’s will hold three public workshops next week, which will provide an ideal opportunity for activists and the general public to learn more about this project and ask piercing questions. The workshops are:

• Tuesday, July 16, 6-8PM in the Holiday Inn Palomino Room, 1900 Hilltop Drive, Redding, CA.
• Wednesday, July 17, 1-3PM at the Cal Expo Quality Inn Hotel & Suites, 1413 Howe Avenue, Sacramento, CA.
• Thursday, July 18, 6-8PM, Merced County Fairgrounds Geronimo Building, 403 F Street, Los Banos, CA.

The Bureau will also hold public hearings in the same cities on September 10-12. Look for a detailed alert from Friends of the River before then.

You can review the DEIS online at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/slwri.  You can also download Friends of the River’s fact sheet concerning the dam raise by visiting http://www.friendsoftheriver.org/NoDamRaise. The fact sheet is based on our review of the preliminary Feasibility Report and DEIS last spring. Please note that some of these issues and concerns may change based on our upcoming analysis of the most recently released DEIS.

For more information concerning this issue, please contact Steve Evans, Wild Rivers Consultant for Friends of the River, phone: (916) 442-3155 x221, email: sevans@friendsoftheriver.org.

March 29th Webinar: Fracking in California

You've heard of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," as a process used to extract gas and oil from rock on the East Coast. Fracking also happens in California and oil and gas companies are hoping to frack even more; however, fracking has been connected to a range of public health and environmental impacts. Join us for a March 29th webinar as we provide an overview of oil and gas extraction in California, discuss fracking and its impacts on public health and the environment, and lay out the various regulatory and legislative efforts underway to address the quickly expanding use of fracking in California. Fracking in California: Oil company efforts to gag doctors and public health researchers about its impactsFriday, March 29, 2013 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PDT   We'll focus on the regulatory and legislative efforts to keep the startling list of chemicals injected into the environment during fracking secret from the public, to require doctors and other health professionals sign a confidentiality agreement before being able to access information about chemicals to which a patient has been exposed, and to prohibit gathering data about impacts of exposure to those chemicals. At the end of this hour, we hope you'll be ready to work to ensure that protection of public health is front and center in the discussion of fracking, chemical policy, and stopping gag rules on doctors. Space is limited, so please register today!  Contact Angela Johnson Meszaros at PSR-LA to discover other opportunities for engaging in our efforts to ensure that fracking does not threaten public health. Angela can be reached via e-mail angelajm@psr-la.org or phone at 213-689-9170.

MOTHER LODE CHAPTER ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET - MAY 4, 2013

For a GREAT time, join us in honoring and celebrating the achievements of outstanding environmental activists at the Mother Lode Chapter's spectacular annual gala event in Sacramento. In addition to meeting like-minded folks and re-acquainting with those you know, you’ll also have the opportunity to take home some wonderful silent auction and raffle items and in the process help support the work of our local activists in Northern California.

Our Keynote Speaker will be Major General Anthony L. Jackson (ret), who was appointed by Governor Brown to be the 19^th Director of California State Parks. To accommodate those who come from longer distances, the banquet will begin earlier this year, with the social hour beginning at 5:00 and dinner at 6:00. For more information visit www.motherlode.sierraclub.org

Mother Lode Chapter Annual Awards Banquet

Lions Gate Hotel and Conference Center

3410 Westover Street, Sacramento (McClellan) CA 95652

Saturday May 4th - Social hour at 5 pm & Dinner at 6 pm

Directions: www.LionsGateHotel.com

To become a sponsor, or to donate items for the raffle or silent auction:

Please contact the Mother Lode Chapter office at info@mlc.sierraclub.org , (916) 557-1100 ext. 108 if you would like to be recognized as a sponsor of the banquet, or to make a donation to help make this a successful fundraising event.

Reservations:

Attendance is by advance reservation only & the cost is $48.00. Please make your reservation online at www.motherlode.sierraclub.org, or call the number above to request a reservation form to be mailed to you. Last year we had to turn people away, so please don't delay.

Sierra Club scholarships to International Zero Waste Week

The National Zero Waste Team has received a grant from the Activist Network to send people to one or more events as part of International Zero Waste Week, March 17-22, 2013. These events are going to be held in San Francisco and Berkeley/Oakland. The list of events are listed below with a link to the host organization’s website for more detailed information.

The main focus of the grant is to get more young people involved in Zero Waste activism. By young people we mean high school and college students and young adults in their 20s and 30s. There is one event, the Youth Convergence on Sunday, March 17, 2013 that is a peer to peer event where High School and College Students & young Professionals can meet, share information, network and get involved. The email announcing this event is below. But if you are interested please let me know as our grant might be able to cover your costs. Call me, or send me your email and phone and a good time to talk and I can go into more details about the Youth Convergence and other events. I will ensure that we get you registered and the Sierra Club will cover your registration. Depending on demand, we might be able to help with other costs associated from attending. Contact me so we can talk about your situation. Ann.Schneider@lomaprieta.sierraclub.org or 650-697-6249. I am looking forward to talking to you. Scholarships will be on a first come basis.

Now if you are not so fortunate to be “young” anymore, but are or want to be a zero waste activist, send me your email and phone number and with luck our funding can cover part or some of your registration to one or more events.

We will at several different times be conducting FREE trainings on Sierra Club Zero Waste tools and how you can use Zero Waste to bring in new activists in your region and get your community to adopt zero waste actions to fight climate change. Curious? Come to our training where we will be rolling out some new tools and talk about how to use them and where they have worked.

Here is how the week looks at this point in time. Other things might be added as we approach International Zero Waste Week. For more detail go to http://ncrarecycles.org/

• Su, 3/17 Bay Area Zero Waste Youth Convergence, 9am-5pm San Franicsco City College – Mission Campus
• Sierra Club Zero Waste Dinner & Discussion
• Mo, 3/18 San Francisco Zero Waste Tours, 9am-3:45pm – Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 96 to see Recology Recycling Operation
• Sierra Club Zero Waste Activist Training Tools – ZW & Climate Change, ZW Lifestyle, Bag & EPS Bans, Organics out of landfills, & more
• Mo, 3/18 Reception, 4:30pm and "Trashed", 6:30pm – Pier 39 San Francisco – great networking opportunity
• Tu, 3/19 Recycling Update, 8am-5pm – Berkeley
• We, 3/20 International Dialog, 8am-5pm – Berkeley
• Th, 3/21 Certification Meeting, 8am-4pm – Oakland City Hall
• Fr, 3/22 East Bay Zero Waste Tours and Reception at Urban Ore –

Register for the U.S.'s first Zero Waste Youth Convergence!

"Redefining Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot"

City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus - Sunday, March 17

Organized by youth, for youth, ZWYC is a full day dedicated to learning, visioning, organizing and celebrating Zero Waste. We want to empower high school and college students, as well as young professionals, to share the Zero Waste message throughout their schools and communities to work towards a more sustainable future.

Regroup with fellow youth leaders or if you're new to zero waste, come learn with us! Event is from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, and includes breakfast, lunch, keynote speakers and topics ranging from recycling and composting to product design and creative reuse.

Registration & information is now available But if you want a Sierra Club scholarship contant Ann.Schneider@lomaprieta.sierraclub.org / 650-697-6249

Hurry, space is limited, and $10 early registration fee increases after Feb. 28!

Join our Facebook Event and Facebook Page for daily updates and reminders.

This event is sponsored by the Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA), Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) and the Grassroots Recycling Network (GRRN). Check out other events in the Bay Area for International Zero Waste Week 2013!

Mount Lassen Chapter - CNPS General Meeting: Monday March 4, 7:30 PM - Chico Branch Library

Subject General Meeting may be of interest to forest protection folks in the Yahi Group of Sierra Club. Following Info from Mount Lassen Chapter - CNPS Home Page: http://mountlassen.cnps.org

General Meeting:

March 4, MONDAY (note change in day). 7:30 pm. Vascular Plant Diversity Under Even-Aged Forest Management in the Sierra-Cascade Region by Dr. Dean Taylor, Consulting Botanist, Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI). Butte County Library, Chico: East First & Sherman Avenues.

Pass the word. Should be a very stimulating presentation.

Woody Elliott, Co-Program Chair

Mount Lassen Chapter - CNPS

287 Pinyon Hills Dr.
Chico, CA 95928

Home Phone: (530) 342-6053

14th Annual Snow Goose Festival

We look forward to seeing you in January! Best Regards,
The Registration Team
Snow Goose Festival
635 Flume St.
Chico, California 95928
530-345-1865
http://snowgoosefestival.org/

The Question of Fracking

Yahi Program Meeting:  November 1, 2012

On Thursday, November 1, there will be a Yahi program meeting at the Chico Branch Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue, at 7:00 PM.  Our speaker for that evening will be Dave Garcia who will talk about fracking, the use of hydraulic fracturing to obtain natural gas or oil.

Dave, a local activist and former Sierra Club Board Chairman, is knowledgeable about the fracking process, problems with fracking, regulations (or lack  thereof), and fracking legislation. 

The program is open to the public.  Bring your questions and concerns and join us for an interesting and informative evening. 

Call Suzette Welch at 530 342-9214 if you need more information

 

Free Screening: Over Troubled Water

November 3, 2012 - Pagent Theater in Chico

Yahi will join with other local environmental groups — BEC, Friends of Butte Creek, Sacramento River Preservation Trust, Citizens Water Watch — to hold a free screening of the new documentary Over Troubled Water at the Pageant Theater on November 3, 2012, at 2:30 PM. You can watch the trailer at Restore the Delta’s Facebook page or Google “Over Troubled Water documentary trailer”.

This is a very important and timely documentary explaining the importance of the Sacramento Delta. Governor Brown and Ken Salazar just announced in July the $14 billion Delta tunnels to be built to send Sacramento water south. We need to educate all Californians on the effects of these planned water transfers so they can make a choice on the future of our water.  If you go to Sierra Club California (www.sierraclubcalifornia.org) you can read Senior Advocate Jim Metropulos’s response: “We don't need 19th century solutions to today's problems” in response to Governor Brown's proposal.

More Information:  http://motherlode.sierraclub.org/yahi/newsletter/Over_Troubled_Water.pdf

 

YAHI Holiday Potluck

December 14, 2012

The Yahi Holiday Party will be held Friday, December 14, 2012, at Valley Oaks Village, 1980 Wild Oak Lane, in Chico, CA.  It will be a potluck this year, starting at 6:00 PM.  Parking is limited, so please carpool if you can. 

If you plan on attending, please notify us by email, stating the number of people in your party and what you plan to bring.  Send email to booksontape@rocketmail.com.

After dinner entertainment will be club members talking about their favorite trips.  Call Suzette Welch at 530 342-9214 if you need more information

 

Phyllis Lindley: 1924-2012

Phyllis Lindley

1924-2012

A Celebration of Life will be held Sunday, August 19 at 10 am at Bear’s Lair, Chico Creek Nature Center, Lower Bidwell Park. Phyllis was an active participant in several environmental organizations, including Mount Lassen Chapter California Native Plant Society, Sierra Club, Altacal Audubon and Bidwell Park Watch.

After moving to Chico in 2000, Phyllis helped to maintain trails in Upper Park and started a recycling program for her retirement community at Sierra Sunrise. For many years she was newsletter editor for Bidwell Park Watch and docent at Chico Creek Nature Center, for which she was honored by the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission. She was a diligent membership chair for Mount Lassen Chapter and regularly assisted with the group’s events.

Phyllis was born April 5, 1924 in Oakland, CA to Cdr. Leo Lindley, USN and Marian Lindley. She attended UC Berkeley, serving as student body president in 1944 and graduating in 1945 with a BA in International Relations. In her mid-20’s she went to a High Sierra Camp in Yosemite, sparking a life-long interest in ecology. From then on every vacation she took was spent backpacking, generally in the Sierra. While living in New York in 1953, she joined the first East Coast chapter of the Sierra Club. Returning to the Bay Area, she became a naturalist for the Audubon Society, motivating her to earn a second BA in Wildlife Management. Her career with Audubon lasted for 17 years.

In the early 1970’s Phyllis and close friend Pat Cone purchased 20 acres surrounded by Mendocino National Forest land in the foothills west of Stonyford, where she lived for almost 30 years. They assisted in building their log cabin-sided house, named Amigeo, from trees harvested and cured on their land and also grew much of their food. Amigeo had abundant water from a spring and electricity generated from it by a Pelton wheel. During this time Phyllis tirelessly advocated for the establishment of the Snow Mountain Wilderness Area near Amigeo, by speaking at governmental hearings over many years, earning her an award from the Mother Lode Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Phyllis loved opera and the symphony. There was no television reception at Amigeo, but luckily she was able to hear radio broadcasts of the New York Metropolitan Opera. Her volunteer invasive plant weeding sessions at Bidwell Park never conflicted with Met broadcasts or North State Symphony performances.

Phyllis passed peacefully on June 28, 2012. She is survived by her sister Louise Hatch of Asheville, NC and 5 nieces and nephews.

The Yahi Newsletter printed a Member Profile (p. 4)  honoring Phyllis in Spring of 2002:  http://motherlode.sierraclub.org/yahi/newsletter/Archive/Spring2002.pdf

Read more about Phyllis's life at the California Native Plant Society web site:  http://mountlassen.cnps.org/

Phyllis's obituary was printed by the Chico ER:  http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicoer/

6th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival

For more info: www.buttecreek.org

Beyond Oil: Getting to Know the Campaign Webinar

Sierra Club activists and staff,

Please join the Beyond Oil Campaign team on July 19th from 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. ET (5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. PT) for the Beyond Oil: Getting to Know the Campaign Webinar! Some of you may be new to this campaign and issue; some of you may be long-time activists. We would like to share our team and plans with you, discuss opportunities to engage, and seek your input.

The Beyond Oil Campaign seeks a world where climate disruption is a fading threat, American soldiers are never again deployed to defend oil fields, and innovative green industries provide good jobs and supply 100% of our energy needs. Together, we'll fight in Washington and in local communities to create this world.

We will raise and defend strong fuel-efficiency and pollution standards, increase access to oil-free transportation choices, promote electric vehicles, move America's large fleets to fuel-efficient and electric vehicles, block tar sands and other dangerous oil projects, and revoke the oil industry's license to operate above the law and interfere with our transition to a clean energy future. Your involvement and leadership is critical. Please join this webinar to learn more and help plan this campaign's next steps.

Date: July 19th, 2012

Time: 8pm ET / 5pm PT

RSVP here.

Webinar Agenda:

Beyond Oil Campaign Presentation: (20 min)

· Critical Reasons to move Beyond Oil

· Real Solutions

· Sierra Club’s Campaign

Discussion: (40 min)

· Opportunities to Engage with Beyond Oil

· Q&A

· Wrap up & Next Steps

Once you’ve emailed us with your information, we will provide an accompanying PowerPoint and call-in information.

Best,

Michael Marx, Director, Beyond Oil Campaign

Darrell Clarke, Volunteer Co-Lead, Beyond Oil Campaign

Occupy our Forests: “Forests for the 99%, Not clearcutting for the 1%”

Ever wonder what happened to all the forests? Or asked yourself where have all the spotted owls gone?

California’s forests sustain thousands of jobs in the recreation and sustainable logging industries- but not if they are clearcut. For many years, private lands logging has been in the news and more people have become aware of the environmental impact of celarcutting. Sometimes the impacts are beneficial for instance; when fire and fuels are reduced or replenishment is necessary, yet sometimes private lands logging leads to mudslides, flooding, property damage, increased fire risk and loss of wildlife habitat.

Want to know how you can be involved in curtailing some of the abuses of
clearcutting?

Become a Timber Harvest Plan Tracker! Learn to use resources to find out where Timber Harvest Plans (THPs) are planned near your neighborhood. Learn about THPs and where to go, to visit private lands logging operations, so you can gather photos and help monitor impacts of clearcutting.

BEC and the Yahi Group of the Sierra Club are co-sponsoring a full day training with EPIC Industrial Forestry Reform Advocate, Rob DiPerna from Arcata on formal Timber Harvest Plan comments.

Please contact Skye at skyeli.peace.justice@gmail.com if you are interested in joining fellow advocates in saving our forests! We will announce a date and time once we have a full class. Class is FREE and open to the public however, donations are being accepted for trainer’s meals and bus fare.

For more about clearcutting please visit
http://www.stopclearcuttingcalifornia.org/ and
for more information on becoming a Timber Harvest Tracker you can visit
http://www.thptrackingcenter.org/

Paradise Irrigation District

The Paradise Irrigation District Wants You!

Join us for a FREE Rain or Shine Tour

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Learn about ways to improve our forests health!

9:00 a.m.

Meet

at the Paradise Seventh Day Adventist Church - 5720 Academy Drive Paradise, CA

9:15 – 11:00 a.m. Space is limited please RSVP!

Bus Tour to the Paradise Lake Picnic Area for a discussion about Forest Management options for areas surrounding Paradise Lake and Magalia reservoir

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 noon

(Paradise Seventh Day Adventist Church)Presentation/Public comment
on details of the Forest Assessment
Please join us for a no-host lunch following the presentation to further discuss the project at Cozy Diner 6371 Skyway Paradise, CA.

For more information or to RSVP contact the Butte County RCD (530) 534-0112 x 122 or bc-rcd@carcd.org

www.buttecountyrcd.org

Wildflowers of Table Mountain, A Naturalist’s View

Co-authors, Albin Bills and Samantha Mackey, and illustrator Larry Jansen, have just finished their completely revised and expanded version of Wildflowers of Table Mountain, A Naturalist’s View, which is now in full color.

Albin Bills has interviews on KCHO with Nancy's Bookshelf and In a North State Garden scheduled for the week of February 20th.

This weekend, Feb 18th and 19th, 2012 In a North State Garden features The Wildflowers of Table Mountain, A Naturalist's Guide - 2nd Edition (Color), an interview with author Albin Bills. 

Read this week's feature article at: http://jewellgarden.com/blog/.

Listen to the segment on Northstate Public Radio (KCHO 91.7 FM in Chico and KFPR 88.9 FM in Redding), Saturday at 7:34 am PST and again Sunday at 8:34 am PST. For additional fm translators: www.kcho.org/_main/translators.asp.

Don't receive the radio stations? Listen at the time of broadcast via live stream from your computer by following the link at www.jewellgarden.com. (Recorded interviews are archived as podcasts to jewellgarden.com a few weeks after the original air date.

Wildflowers of Table Mountain is available at Lyons Books in Chico.  Albin Bills will hold a book signing event at Lyon Books at 7PM on Thursday February 23 in Chico.

The book is also available for purchase through The Herbarium at Chico State University.  Print Order form: 
www.motherlode.sierraclub.org/yahi/newsletter/Wildflowers_of_Table_Mountain.pdf

Special Showing of “The Big Year”

Special Showing of “The Big Year”
* * * ONE WEEKEND ONLY * * *
 
Two special screenings of the film, The Big Year, are being offered at the Pageant Theater in Chico on Saturday, January 21 at 1:00 pm and Sunday, January 22 at 5:00 pm as a prelude to the upcoming Snow Goose Festival. This comedy stars Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson who portray friendly rivals dedicating a year of their lives to following their dream of seeing as many species of birds as possible in one calendar year. 
 
The Snow Goose Festival, a four-day event that celebrates the local and migratory waterfowl of the Northern Sacramento Valley, offers over 80 field trips, workshops and activities for birding and nature enthusiasts young and old. Special Guest and Keynote Speaker for the Festival, Greg Miller, is one of the famed birders featured in the book, The Big Yearby Mark Obmascik, and portrayed by Jack Black in the film.
 
Tickets are $5 at the door only. The Pageant Theater is located at 351 E. 6th Street in Chico. Please visit www.snowgoosefestival.org for more details or call the Snow Goose Festival office at (530) 345-1865.

Pacific Flyway Art Exhibit & Welcome Reception

Art & Nature Enthusiasts Invited to Attend
Uptown / Downtown Pacific Flyway Art Exhibit & Welcome Reception
 
January 12, 2012. Chico, CA.  The public is invited to the exciting Uptown/Downtown Pacific Flyway Art Exhibit and Welcome Reception on Friday, January 27, 2012 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. This special evening is one of the featured events of the Snow Goose Festival and offers admirers of art and nature a chance to view artwork featuring wildlife and habitat along the Pacific Flyway. Works of 45 artists in a variety of media, including sculpture, clay, oils, watercolor, acrylics, mixed media, glass and photography will be shown and offered for sale.
 
The Uptown/Downtown Exhibit and Reception is housed at two Chico galleries: Avenue 9 Gallery, located at 180 E. 9thAve. and Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., Suite 6. The Friday evening reception offers a chance to mix and mingle, admire art, meet the artists, and enjoy live music and refreshments. Leave your car behind and enjoy the courtesy trolley rides between the galleries every half hour.
Pre-registration admission is $10/adult, $5/youth. At the door, $5 additional.
 
Running January 26-29, the Snow Goose Festival, a four-day event that celebrates the local and migratory waterfowl of the Northern Sacramento Valley, offers over 80 field trips, workshops and activities for birding and nature enthusiasts young and old. Register for the Reception and other Festival events online at snowgoosefestival.org or call (530) 345-1865.

Kathleen Huber
Administration Assistant
Snow Goose Festival