Redwood Region Audubon Society

Join us for our monthly restoration work days!

It has been decades since this stretch of the waterfront provided good habitat for native birds, plants and animals, and we are working to change that! Wigi Wetlands lies along the Eureka Waterfront Trail behind the Bayshore Mall. Redwood Region Audubon Society, in conjunction with the Humboldt Trail Stewards, is working to create bird-friendly habitat by removing invasive plants and garbage.

This section of the trail contains dry lands as well as seasonal wetlands, and a salt water marsh. A meadow that was filled with Scotch broom has been a main focus, and there is now just a fringe of the invasive plants left to be removed. River otters were spotted nearby!

Closer to the bay, one area was covered in white sweet clover, completely blocking the view of the bay, and covering a lot of native plants. The clover has been removed, the bay is visible, and the native plants are flourishing there! Cedar waxwings paid us a visit to enjoy the twinberries we had uncovered.

Our workdays are the 4th Saturday of each month, 9:00 - 11:00. Meet us behind WalMart.

We provide great tools (ever used an extractigator?), wonderful company, and the opportunity to make a difference for the birds. Join us to help remove invasive plants, pick up garbage, and enjoy the beautiful stretch of the trail. Light, packaged refreshments offered. Please bring your own water.

2025 Workdays Coming Soon:

September 27

Octobrt 24

November 22

December 27

Three years ago this field was full of Scotch broom plants taller than you. The bay was hidden from view behind them. Many work days spent using extractigators, shovels, pulaskis and lots of muscle brought the bay back into view.

Dennis Houghton pulled the last of the old-growth roots,as well as the huge pampass grass plants, with the help of the mighty machine.

Next year we hope you will see a meadow of native wildflowers here!

Our main goals for Saturday, September 27!

1. Remove unwelcome plants in the North Meadow

2. Keep working on English ivy removal/control

3. Collect and scatter wildflower seeds

4. Finish clearing a burned campsite

4. Have fun, and see the difference that we can make together!

The young native plants in the North Meadow benefited from the water we provided the last two months, and we know the rains we have had recently made them even happier. We're going to focus some energy in that area on removing a limited number of pampas grass and Scotch broom plants that are trying to reclaim their former home, as well as removing some bristly oxtongue which has arrived uninvited.

Brown ivy vines can be seen clinging to some of the alders where we've cut the vines off their roots. There are a few more vines that need the same treatment, and we'd like to do it before the real rains start and the area becomes a wetland again.

Are (or were) you a flower child? Or would you like to be? Beautiful blue asters are blooming in profusion in the North Meadow. We think they would also do well in the East field, so someone(s) can collect seeds and spread them in their new area. Willow leaf dock is thriving in the hard rock soil near the playground, and it is going to seed now. We'd like to collect and scatter them along with the aster seeds in the East field.

CSET is doing a commendable job of keeping campers from taking over the public areas where we work - Thank You!!! - but one group set fire to their belongings, as well as some trees and shrubs. Most of the trash has been removed, but we could use two or three people who don't mind getting dirty to finish the job.

There is also lots of fennel that needs to have flower heads lopped, and pampas grass along the tracks that needs its plumes cut.

For newcomers, please know that we don't expect anyone to do everything! Tasks at hand vary in degree of physical effort required, and we want everyone to feel comfortable with the job they chose.

We will provide gloves, tools, and guidance. If you have clippers or loppers (or other tools) that you love using, bring them along.

And we provide yummy snacks! Please bring your own drinking water.

We meet in the parking lot behind Walmart. We hope you will join us!

Susan, Hal and Eric

Twenty volunteers came out January 25 on a cold, blue morning. We planted over 50 trees and shrubs, filled a dumpster with invasives (ivy, Himalayan blackberry and Scotch broom) that we pulled out by the roots, and cleared trash with the help of Eureka's CSET officer. Wow!

The excavator is half-hidden by a huge clump of pampass grass by a wetland area. And then...

The mighty jaws pulled it all out. The pile at the right is all that remains of that stand.