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Rudy’s Boysen Berry Farm…With a maiden name of Boysen, Jeanette “Nettie” Boysen Fitzgerald knew she had a connection to the boysenberry plant via her grandfather, Rudy Boysen, who developed itRead More

Rebuilding Whiskeytown Environmental School…Between 1970 and 2018, some 134,000 fifth- and sixth-graders got to splash in Clear Creek, hike, camp overnight, marvel at star-filled skies and learn about the naturalRead More

Dan Greaney’s Bird Words Book…What Dan Greaney doesn’t know about birds could probably fit in a sparrow’s beak. Much of what he does know is featured in his recently published book, “BirdWords,”Read More

Hit the Trail for the Bigfoot Adventure Challenge…It’s gotta be the socks.How else to explain why nearly 400 people entered last year’s Bigfoot Adventure Challenge last year, completing some 3,050Read More

Know Your Farmer in Siskiyou County…The tagline on the Siskiyou County Cattlewomen’s website is “Top Beef from the Top of the State.” And if you ask a few of theRead More

The Mustang Project…In 1999, Tracy Mohr adopted her first wild mustang. She had grown up with horses, but all of them had been tamed. When Mohr ended up in NorthernRead More

Quinten DeJong Specializes in Personal Training for Race Car Drivers…Decades before NASCAR was born in 1948, there was dirt track racing. Started before World War I, but growing in theRead More

Camp Cinder Helps Integrate Women Into the Fire Service…When Katie Mason went out to find a summer job in her hometown of Yreka, her stepmother encouraged her to apply toRead More

Downtown Redding’s Bike Depot…Can you envision Redding transformed into a cyclist’s haven, linked to a network of trails that provide safe, easy access to your job downtown? You could rideRead More

Girls on the Run…At a regional park on a warm spring day, hundreds of girls of all ages are pumping themselves up to run a 5K. For many, this isRead More

Forging the Sacramento River from Mount Shasta to the Golden Gate Bridge…“When you find a good adventure buddy, it’s like hitting the jackpot,” says outdoor enthusiast and paddler Ari Kosel.Read More

Reaching New Heights with Shasta Mountain Guides…In 1856, the Shasta Courier proclaimed: “September 16, the famous mountain Shasta Butte was ascended by a party of ladies, where they celebrated theRead More

Shasta View Lodge in McCloud…A fairytale mountain wedding requires the perfect blend of seclusion, serenity and scenery, and the newly renovated Shasta View Lodge in McCloud offers all of itRead More

Rockside Ranch in Etna…“Restoration is the process of restoring what once was. And so, when I think of life restoration, I think things were going in a good direction andRead More

Mt. Shasta Offers a Wide Variety of Outdoor Fun…For winter adventurers in Mt. Shasta, the chill in the air becomes a beckoning call to the great outdoors. “The whole areaRead More

Victor’s Christmas Trees Sourced from Mt. Shasta…It’s 2023, and the the tallest live cut tree this year in Orange County owes its provenance to Mt. Shasta. During its tenure atRead More

Matt Dahl’s Grunt Fly Fishing…As a boy, fly fishing was something Matt Dahl could enjoy with his grandfather, Les. As an ex-Marine with two Iraqi deployments under his belt, alongRead More

Native American Boats Crafted by Marc Daniels…Marc Daniels has long been fascinated with sealskin boats, and lately he’s become rather obsessed with the nigilax, a large open boat traditional toRead More

On the Water with John Acuna…John Acuna is a man of many titles. “Oh, man, that’s tough. It’s been a running joke this summer to figure out what the heckRead More

Local Animal Study with California Fish and Wildlife Department…When wintertime hits the Northern California coast, Angela Rehse goes out hunting for black-tailed deer. She’s hunting with a pneumatic rifle thatRead More