Upcoming Events

This first annual and co-sponsored event is part of a new campaign, "Respect the River, Respect the Road, Respect Yourself." Labor Day is one of the most popular days for tubers on the River. Unfortunately much of the fun is left behind with beer cans, innertubes, paper wrappings, plastic bottles, and styrafoam containers.

This first ever post Labor Day clean up will help maintain the beauty, safety & health of the mid reach of the Sacramento River for the enjoyment of everyone - all year round.  »

Join the Trust and other local community organizations and agencies promote the North Valley Community Foundation's Annual Annie B's Community Drive.

5:30-9pm Chico City Plaza.

Please be advised because Thursday Night Market coincides with this event there will limited downtown parking.  »

4th Annual Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival

Thursday Sept. 16, 5:30 pm

Sierra Nevada Brewery Big Room

FBC will be hosting this great evening of inspiration with a light buffet dinner, films, music, silent auction and great Sierra Nevada beverages!

Buy tickets online at http://www.buttecreek.org/.  »

The Bidwell Park and Creeks of Chico Cleanup 2010 will be held Saturday, September 18th from 9 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The Cleanup will focus on heavily impacted areas of Bidwell Park, Lindo Channel, Big Chico Creek, Little Chico Creek, and Comanche Creek. This annual cleanup clears thousands of pounds of trash from Chico’s park and creeks. Refreshments will be available to start and at the volunteer picnic and BBQ at Hooker Oak after the event.

For more information please call BEC at 891-6424  »

SACRAMENTO RIVER TOUR WITH RIVER PARTNERS

BRING YOUR CANOE or KAYAK: Paddle down the Sacramento River with Dr. Tom Griggs, River Partners’ Senior Restoration Ecologist. Explore the longest river in California as it meanders through various state wildlife areas and the Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge.

Starting where Big Chico Creek meets the Sacramento, we’ll enjoy bird watching, stop at several key public sites along the way, then take-out near one of River Partners’ restoration projects. Dr. Griggs, who has worked on the Sacramento River for more than 20 years, has a wealth of knowledge to share about this important community resource.

This is a free community event and reservations are required. Skill level is for paddlers who have the endurance for a 4 ½ hour tour to cover 9 river miles.  »

Your're invited to the River Exchange's 18th Annual Great River Clean-Up & Pizza Picnic

Bring your family & friends to spiff up the Upper Sac!

Prized awarded for the Most Unusual, Most Reusable, and the Mose Humorous Trash found on the River.

Meet at Dusmuir City Park between 9-10am.

"The Great River Clean-up" is sponsored by The River Exchange promoting healthy watersheds through stewardship, restoration, eduacation, community involvement. »

This 3-day, 2-night tour travels the length of the Sacramento Valley, a major source of water for California.

Stops include Oroville and Shasta dams, Red Bluff Diversion Dam, the Feather River Fish Hatchery and Spring Creek Debris Dam and Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site. Another highlight: a houseboat cruise on Shasta Reservoir. Participants learn about the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, coordinated CVP-SWP operations, farming, groundwater management and conjunctive use and salmon restoration. The tour begins and ends at Sacramento International Airport.
The major sponsors of the 2010 Northern California Tour are the Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region; California Department of Water Resources; Brown and Caldwell; GEI Consultants; George Miller and Janet McKinley; MWH; and PBS&J.  »

Every fourth Saturday of September, the stretch of the Feather River between Historic Downtown Oroville and the Feather River Fish Hatchery bursts with fish-flavored activities during the Annual Salmon Festival, a day of fun, food, music and information.

From 10:00 am-4:00 PM, the fish hatchery celebrates the thousands of spawning salmon that annually make their way from the ocean back to Oroville.

Environmental education, music, salmon tasting, tours of the processing plant, and kid's games and activities highlight this free event.

Also that day, Historical Downtown Oroville comes alive with a pancake breakfast, a certified farmer's market, live music, a craft fair, and clowns and rides for the kids. These events take place from 9:00 AM-4:00 PM.

Across from the hatchery at the Feather River Nature Center, guests can enjoy a continuation of the Maidu Salmon Ceremony with live dancing by local Native Americans.

A free shuttle to transport people between events is generally available from 10:00AM-5PM.

For more information, please call the Oroville Chamber of Commerce at 530-538-2542. Or email info@orovillechamber.net This e-mail address is being protected from spambots.  »

The Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference (formerly known as the CALFED Science Conference) is a forum for presenting technical analyses and results relevant to the Delta Science Program’s mission to provide the best possible, unbiased, scientific, information for water and environmental decision-making in the Bay-Delta system.fd

The goal of the conference is to provide new information such as study results, model simulations, and analysis and syntheses of data to the broad community of scientists, engineers, resource managers, and stakeholders working on Bay-Delta issues. The organizers of this 6th Science Conference are seeking presentations toward this goal.

The conference program will feature both oral and poster presentations that provide scientific information and ideas relevant to the specific themes listed, as well as the broader overall conference theme “Ecosystem Sustainability: Focusing Science on Managing California’s Water Future.”  »