Hosted by Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve Walk with David Ledger from the Native Plant Society and Sierra Club. Enjoy the beauty of blooming wildflowers. David will explain the various botanical features of flowers using roadside flowering weeds and teach participants about the features of 2 or 3 plant families with handouts describing them. Then we will… Read More »Clear Creek Wildflowers and Wild Plants

Hosted by Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve Kody Shellhouse, a geologist with the Bureau of Land Management, will take us on an easy two-mile stroll along old roads and trails near Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve. That will give us the opportunity to discuss Cretaceous geology and the mining history of the area. * * * This hike meets… Read More »Geology Walk

Hosted by Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve The community of Horsetown was established near the second major gold discovery in California at Reading’s Bar on Clear Creek during the gold rush of 1849. Enjoy a pleasant spring walk with a view of that site with Preserve Board Member Cathy Scott. Learn about our local gold rush history… Read More »Gold Rush History Walk

Hosted by Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve. Join local angler Mark Clausen as he discusses fly fishing and watch from the beach as he demonstrates the technique of casting a fly on beautiful Clear Creek. He will share facts about wild trout on Clear Creek and some of the equipment used on the sport. Mark has been… Read More »Wild Trout and Fly Fishing in Clear Creek

Hosted by Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve. Join Horsetown-Clear Creek Preserve alongside Fish Biologists from the US. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to learn more about their juvenile salmon conservation and monitoring projects in our area. This is a family friendly event where you can view USFWS rotary screw trap operations on Clear Creek, a project that… Read More »Salmon Monitoring on Clear Creek