We appreciate your interest in the
Aleutian Goose Festival: A Celebration of Wildness
However, we have some disappointing news from our beautiful northwestern most corner of California. Due to the state of the
economy, and with regret,
we must postpone our 11th annual
festival until March 2010.
For more details click here
Meanwhile, we recommend our sister festival Godwit Days,
this
coming April 16-22, 2009; view their offerings and register online,
www.godwitdays.com
We apologize for any inconvenience to you.
We are honored to offer Birding, Nature and Tolowa and Yurok Indian
cultural experiences that you will remember for the rest of your life.
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Our birding, nature, and heritage celebration offers 80 events, workshops, and guided excursions into the wildness of our globally outstanding natural areas: Redwood National and State Parks, the Smith River National Recreation Area, Castle Rock Wildlife Refuge, Tolowa Dunes State Park, and the Lake Earl Wildlife Area, and Lake Earl Coastal Lagoon. Our offerings will tempt everyone, from the most avid birder or botanist to the generalist nature lover or history buff. Come join us in celebrating the return of 
spring with tens of thousands of Aleutian Canada Geese. Watch at dawn when the birds rise from their offshore island resting place — to fill the sky with voice and wing as they move to feed in nearby mainland pastures. Down to less than 500 in the early 1970s and now numbering more than 60,000+, the Aleutian Canada Goose is an Endangered Species Act success story.
Discover the rugged beauty of California's most northwest corner, Crescent City and Del Norte County's wild redwood coast. Delight in this remote island of nature, which has a feeling of being suspended "outside of time" — for this is a place where rivers still run free, where wild salmon still spawn, and where endangered species recover, rather than disappear.
Enjoy sampling from our county birdlist of 414 species; our seventh annual festival birdlist reached 184 species.
And then discover how the complexity and diversity of species goes beyond birds. Explore why our Klamath-Siskiyou region is often called "the Galapagos of North America". Begin to experience the botanical variety that is almost unparalleled around the globe. Learn about the indigenous peoples of this region who still live on or near their original tribal lands.
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Great Egrets - California Department of Parks & Recreation
Cormorants - California Department of Parks & Recreation
Ancient Redwoods - Redwood National & State Parks
Harlequin Ducks - Redwood National & State Parks
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