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Fish, Wildlife & Native Plant Events in Our Area

Community Calendar Events

We are not the sponsors of most of these events. See the links for more information. We make every effort to list the correct dates for these events, however we urge you to double check with the event producers.

January

San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival, Mare Island, Vallejo, February 6-8, 2009

Snow Goose Festival, Chico area, January 23-25

February

California Duck Days, Davis

March

Whale watching along the coast.

Good places include Point Reyes and Monterey

April

Creek Week, Sacramento

Earth Day, April 22, 2009

Heron Festival & Wildflower Brunch, Clear Lake State Park, Kelseyville, April 25-26, 2009

Kern Valley Spring Nature Festival, Kernville, Kern Valley, May 2-3, 2009

May
Migratory Bird Day Festivities

Stone lakes NWR Walk on the Wildside, Elk Grove, May 9, 2009

Sacramento Zoo Wings of Spring

Muir Woods National Monument

Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Endangered Species Faire, Bidwell Park, Chico, May 2, 2009

National Wildflower Week

Sacramento River Watershed Celebration, Red Bluff

CNPS Native Plant Sales - See CA Native Plant Society local chapter websites for dates. Most chapters have sales around May and October.

June

State of California Free Fishing Day.

Mono Basin Bird Chautauqua, Lee Vining

July

Contact our External Affairs Program at (916) 414-6600 to suggest an event for our calendar.

August

California State Fair, Sacramento, August 21-September 7, 2009
Visit our Discovery Island. Educational displays and fun things for kids to do.

September

State of California Free Fishing Day.

Feather River Salmon Festival, Feather River Hatchery, Oroville

Kern River Valley Turkey Vulture Festival, Kern River Preserve, Welton

October

Kokanee Salmon Festival, Lake Tahoe, Contact the Taylor Creek Visitor Center (530) 573-2611

CNPS Native Plant Sales - See CA Native Plant Society local chapter websites for dates. Most chapters have sales around May and October.

American River Salmon Festival, Nimbus Hatchery, Rancho Cordova

National Wildlife Refuge System Refuge Week

Return of the Salmon Festival, Coleman National Fish Hatchery, Anderson

November

Lodi Sandhill Crane Festival

Dept. of Fish & Game sandhill crane tours

Central Valley Birding Symposium, Stockton

December

Audubon Christmas Bird Count

Contact our External Affairs Program at (916) 414-6600 to suggest an event for our calendar.
Salmon Festival colage

American River Salmon Festival

Salmon cookoff and BBQ, wildlife information, live music, American Indian presentations, aquariums, fishing clinics, fly casting demo's, boat tours, storytelling, and much more.

National Wildlife Refuge icon links to refuge web page Refuge Activity Pages

Don Edwards SF Bay NWR

Sacramento NWR Complex

Stone Lakes NWR


For events throughout California, see the California Watchable Wildlife Committee's California Wildlife Festival Calendar.

The Service is a member of the committee. However, this is not a government web page.

Places to See Rare Species

Links and other information are available in Places Where Kids Can See Rare Species.

We have made a Google Earth KML file of places to see rare species in Northern California. Open the file in Google Earth or other default program. More about KML Files (pop-up)

Last updated: October 30, 2008

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