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Join amateur historian and the property's owner Brian Bisnett on a tour of the Blue Point Mine, once California's richest hydraulic mine.
Participants will see Blue Point's wetlands and towering 300 foot escarpments, home to a nesting pair of endangered peregrine falcons and colonies of threatened bank swallows. The site's vast array of gold rush archeological remnants will be explored, including a tunnel which runs over a half mile from the valley floor to the Yuba River, and the historic town site of Sucker Flat, where a company town once thrived and where now only a single home, built in 1865, remains.
Participants will hike the historic Miner's Ditch, which once brought water to the region's first hydraulic mine at Rose Bar and now provides a trail with breathtaking views above the Yuba River Narrows. The tour will continue through the Excelsior property, soon to be acquired by the Trust for Public Lands, and will conclude at the Black Swan Diggings, home to a variety of bird species and a thriving population of Western Pond Turtles.
Scheduled for 9 a.m. Sunday, May 1, this will be a strenuous hike, covering about nine miles, with quite a bit of off-trail scrambling. Cost is $12 for Nevada County Land Trust members, and $17 for nonmembers.
For information call NCLT Treks Coordinator Melony Vance at (530) 272-5994, ext. 1 or e-mail Melony@NevadaCountyLandTrust.org. Sign up at www.NevadaCountyLandTrust.org
Participants will see Blue Point's wetlands and towering 300 foot escarpments, home to a nesting pair of endangered peregrine falcons and colonies of threatened bank swallows. The site's vast array of gold rush archeological remnants will be explored, including a tunnel which runs over a half mile from the valley floor to the Yuba River, and the historic town site of Sucker Flat, where a company town once thrived and where now only a single home, built in 1865, remains.
Participants will hike the historic Miner's Ditch, which once brought water to the region's first hydraulic mine at Rose Bar and now provides a trail with breathtaking views above the Yuba River Narrows. The tour will continue through the Excelsior property, soon to be acquired by the Trust for Public Lands, and will conclude at the Black Swan Diggings, home to a variety of bird species and a thriving population of Western Pond Turtles.
Scheduled for 9 a.m. Sunday, May 1, this will be a strenuous hike, covering about nine miles, with quite a bit of off-trail scrambling. Cost is $12 for Nevada County Land Trust members, and $17 for nonmembers.
For information call NCLT Treks Coordinator Melony Vance at (530) 272-5994, ext. 1 or e-mail Melony@NevadaCountyLandTrust.org. Sign up at www.NevadaCountyLandTrust.org
