BEEP Finishes 2nd Successful Season of Broom Removal
BEEP (Broom Education and Eradication Program), a Forest Ranch community action group, recently completed their second season of Spanish and French broom eradication. To date, they've removed more than 100,000 broom plants from the upper Big Chico Creek and Little Chico Creek watersheds. In addition to the volunteer efforts of numerous Forest Ranch residents, the Butte County Fire Safe Council, California Conservation Corps, Caltrans, and California State University Chico faculty and staff also aided this project. The Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve and the Mt. Lassen Chapter of the California Native Plant Society helped extend this eradication effort downstream by pulling broom from the lower Big Chico Creek watershed and Lindo Channel.
BEEP is an affiliate of the Big Chico Creek Watershed Alliance (Alliance), which recently received $9,995 in grant funding to provide project supervision and work team leaders for BEEP. This was one of two projects selected for a 2-year Weed Management Area competitive grant awarded to the Butte County Resource Conservation District by the California Dept. of Food and Agriculture. For more information about BEEP, please click here.
The Big Chico Creek Watershed Alliance is participating in numerous other projects within the watershed. For a complete list, see the Projects and Programs section of this web site. Links to some of the major projects are included below.
The Big Chico Creek Watershed Alliance's Watershed Management Strategy is the road map that defines the Alliance’s work, including Goals, Objectives and Actions to achieve the mission of the Alliance.
The Big Chico Creek Watershed Alliance was awarded a $10,000 grant by the Stewardship Council’s Youth Investment Program in support of the Alliance’s Youth Stream Team program. 05/20/08
The city of Chico is using some 900 goats from Olympius Livestock in Herald to clear weeds and non-native invasive plants from Verbena Fields, near the east end of East First Avenue. 04/25/08
