Monthly Giving Circle
It makes conservation easier
 | | Ceci Reynolds made a delectable feast for our 2012 Monthly Donor Luncheon on Spanish Creek (Thank you, Ceci!). You really ought to come next year! |
Monthly giving keeps your land trust vital and strong, so together we can conserve the places you love. PLUS, at the end of the year, you get to have a great lunch with like-minded friends.
Won't you join?
Bonus: You'll be in great company.
 | | Monthly donors share a passion for conserving special places, good company and great food at the 2012 Monthly Donor Luncheon. |
So far we have 32 people that give every month, ranging from $5 to $300. It all adds up to a stable income to help keep our land trust strong. You can help!
Monthly giving: easy, efficient, dependable. Sign up now.
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Kids benefit when class moves outside
Seats, Signs, Trails, oh my!FRLT's Learning Landscapes program had a big Spring of installing and dedicating outdoor classrooms at schools throughout the Feather River Watershed complete with signs, trails, and seating areas. Students like Allie here are getting out and learning, exploring, taking care of the land, and making Vitamin D.  | |
Allie from Chester Elementary tells you how she's using her
Learning Landscapes outdoor classroom
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Support from the Stewardship Council, Plumas Bank, and local donors, and wonderful collaboration from teachers, students, Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship and local contractors and suppliers is making it possible. Why do we do it? The reasons are many. Physical activity, curiosity and wonder, place-based learning, and developing a land stewardship ethic are all part of the mix for supporting healthy children and healthy land. It turns out that time in nature stimulates intelligence, creativity, and overall well-being. Read more... Author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle, Richard Louv, shares just a few of his thoughts on why children, and all of us, really, need time in Nature:  | |
AustinNOW interviews author of Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv
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Thanks to wonderful members like you, FRLT's Learning Landscapes and local schools are taking class outside.
Now, it's a beautiful summer - What will YOU do outside today?
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Students Step Up
Students Leaving a Legacy of Care on Learning Landscapes
"Today you stepped up. You're building a legacy. This is the time, and you are the people who really stepped up to make Chester High and Chester Meadows even better." With these words, Learning Landscapes coordinator Rob Wade congratulated a weary but satisfied group of 7-9th grade students from Chester Jr./Sr. High School, after a long day's work to restore riparian and meadow habitats in Chester Meadows earlier this month.
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Chester 8th graders planted native plants in Chester Meadows
to restore areas degraded by vehicles.
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Throughout the watershed this Spring, 7th-9th grade PUSD students participated in stewardship and restoration project days as part of FRLT's Learning Landscapes program.
Students installed bird nesting boxes, eradicated noxious weeds, and planted native plants and willows for riparian bank stabilization and overall habitat diversity. Read more...
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Paul Hardy and students have fun receiving the "Big Check" from
PG&E's Nature Restoration Trust, which is supporting
student restoration efforts throughout the Feather River Watershed.
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Check out more photos here.
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Reducing Fuel Load on Heart K
Unique partnership with Greenville Rancheria benefits forest  | Mike Savala of the Greenville Rancheria Fire Crew.
The crew is treating 35 acres of forest on the Heart K Ranch. |
The Feather River Land Trust is working with the Greenville Rancheria on a unique forest management project that will help reduce hazardous fuels accumulation, improve forest health, and enhance black oak regeneration on 35 acres of the Heart K Ranch. The project is being managed by the Greenville Rancheria Fire Crew who are doing all the work cutting, piling, and burning of forest understory in the treatment area. The crew will burn the piles in the winter. The crew brings unique capabilities to the project-all members of the crew are "red carded" fire fighters and the crew is set up with all the equipment, communications gear, and training to fight wildland fires on public and private lands-which they may have to do this summer as the weather heats up. The Rancheria also has a fire engine which gives them much more capacity to safely burn than the FRLT staff.  | |
Marvin and Ben Cunningham, who have deep ancestral ties to the Genesee Valley,
advised on important local and cultural considerations for the project.
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Funding for the project is provided by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) Tribal Initiative. Local NRCS representatives Reina Rogers and Dan Martynn, have been involved with the project since its inception and look forward to working with the FRLT and the Greenville Rancheria on future land conservation projects. |
Get outside: Events on the Land
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About Feather River Land Trust With your help, the Feather River Land Trust is working to conserve the most strategically important lands in the Feather River region, and to steward their ecological and cultural values for current and future generations.
P.O. Box 1826
Quincy, California 95971
Feather River Land Trust
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