- Charlotte Orr
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Enjoy National Public Lands Day in Lake County's outdoors
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Celebrate National Public Lands Day – Saturday, Sept. 27 – right in your own backyard.
Lake County is one of the five counties included in the Berryessa Snow Mountain region comprised of 350,000-plus acres of federal public lands to be enjoyed.
The Berryessa Snow Mountain region stretches nearly one hundred miles from the shores of Lake Berryessa to the flanks of Snow Mountain in the Mendocino National Forest.
This undiscovered landscape provides wonderful opportunities to hike, horseback ride, and hunt, camp, fish, bird watch, use motorized vehicles on designated routes, enjoy both motorized and non-motorized boating, water recreation, and much more.
The Berryessa Snow Mountain region has a botanical biodiversity that makes it the center of the California global hot spot.
Come visit the blue oak woodlands, Shasta red fir forests, chaparral, rivers, riparian areas, and jaw dropping explosion of annual spring wildflowers.
This stunning outdoor wonderland provides habitat for nearly half of California’s dragonfly species, a wealth of butterflies, river otters, trout, tule elk, deer, mountain lions, bears, osprey, and California’s second largest population of wintering bald eagles.
Here are a few ways you can celebrate National Public Lands Day:
Go fishing: Sept. 27 also is National Hunting and Fishing Day. Check both celebrations on your list by going fishing in the Berryessa Snow Mountain region. Putah Creek is a great place to practice your catch and release fishing for wild trout. Don’t forget to only use artificial flies and lures with barbless hooks.
Sign-up for a hike or trail day: Tuleyome has an exciting list of hikes and trail days coming up in the Berryessa Snow Mountain region. These events are free to the public and led by experienced hike docents. Learn more about these hikes at www.tuleyome.org and sign up online at www.MeetUp.com/Tuleyome-Home-Place-Adventures .
Ask President Obama to take action: Permanent protection of this quintessential piece of California’s wild outdoor heritage will improve coordination between federal agencies, help adjustments to climate change, keep our water clean and provide additional federal funding opportunities for conservation management, invasive species eradication, and recreational enhancement. Ask President Obama to permanently protect the Berryessa Snow Mountain region by signing a postcard of support at www.berryessasnowmountain.org .
Upcoming Tuleyome hikes and trail days in the Berryessa Snow Mountain Region:
Hikes
– Saturday, Oct. 18.
– Saturday, Dec. 6: Berryessa Peak Hike.
– Saturday, Jan. 10: Cold Canyon Hike.
– Saturday, Feb. 7: High Bridge Trail.
– Saturday, April 11: Redbud Trail.
– Saturday, May 2: Berryessa Snow Mountain wildflower tour.
– Saturday, June 6, to Sunday, June 7: Snow Mountain camping trip (weather permitting).
Trail days
– Dec. 20: Volunteer trail restoration day at Stebbins Cold Canyon.
– Jan. 24: Volunteer trail restoration day at Stebbins Cold Canyon.
– Feb. 21: Volunteer trail restoration day at Stebbins Cold Canyon.
– March 21: Volunteer trail restoration day at Stebbins Cold Canyon.
– April 18: Volunteer trail restoration day at Stebbins Cold Canyon.
– May 16: Volunteer trail restoration day at Stebbins Cold Canyon.