Get to know Highstead, a Redding treasure
Open House, Trails Day & Lecture
Free! All are welcome
10:00 am - 1:00 pm - Trails Open
Meet new friends and neighbors and have a bite to eat with our staff as you tour the Highstead barn and explore our trails. Ecologist Ed Faison will lead a hike from 10:30-12:30, or you can take a self-guided tour of our gorgeous grounds.
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1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Lecture and Book Signing
Dr. Stephen DeStefano discusses his new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door. He will draw on his decades of experience as a biologist and conservationist to examine the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. What does our insatiable appetite for real estate mean for the health and well-being of animals and ourselves? What about growing problems such as the loss of darkness at night because of light pollution? You will find out during DeStefano's provocative lecture!
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Woven throughout the book is the story of one of the most successful species in North America: the coyote. Once restricted to the prairies of the West, this adaptable animal now inhabits most of North America - urban and wild alike. DeStefano traces a female coyote's movements along a winding path between landscapes in which her species learned to survive and flourish. Coyote at the Kitchen Door asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a new suburban wildlife ethic.
