Restoration of Sulphur Creek Watershed at Wilbur Hot Springs
Wilbur Hot Springs in Colusa County, California is located on revered land which was historically inhabited by the Patwin and Pomo tribes for many thousands of years. Featuring 1,800 acres with mineral-rich medicinal waters, the site is now being actively restored after decades of extractive mining damage. Wilbur continues to welcome the many individuals who have been returning for decades and consider Wilbur a personal sanctuary, as well as inviting back indigenous communities and original ancestral descendants. Blending hospitality, land stewardship and healing waters, Wilbur offers a quiet non-digital space, where anyone may find respite from today's busy life and deepen their experience of the natural world.
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Wilbur Hot Springs: Restoring the Land
Wilbur Hot Springs sits on sacred 1,800-acre land, home to the Patwin and Pomo tribes for thousands of years. Once a thriving healing destination, the site endured a century of mining devastation before its 1970s revival. Today, this hotel and spa operates as a conservation leader, reinvesting all profits into land stewardship and a 1,560-acre nature preserve.
Restoring What Was Lost
In partnership with Tuleyome and Swiftwater Design, Wilbur is undertaking the Sulphur Creek Easement Project—a watershed restoration initiative that serves as a model for regional conservation. Their multi-faceted approach includes:
Watershed restoration through beaver dam analogs and road improvements that slow destructive runoff
Invasive species removal using sheep grazing, controlled burns, and strategic removal
Indigenous collaboration to restore ancestral land management and cultural gathering traditions
Biodiversity monitoring to measure ecological recovery
Creating Real Impact
Your support funds hands-on labor, expert consultants, and complimentary access for indigenous communities. The results? Reduced sediment and mercury runoff, improved groundwater levels, increased native species resilience, enhanced soil health, and wildfire risk reduction—all while honoring the land's ancestral guardians.
Wilbur Hot Springs isn't just preserving history. It's regenerating it.
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Restoration of Sulphur Creek Watershed at Wilbur Hot Springs
Wilbur Hot Springs in Colusa County, California is located on revered land which was historically inhabited by the Patwin and Pomo tribes for many thousands of years. Featuring 1,800 acres with mineral-rich medicinal waters, the site is now being actively restored after decades of extractive mining damage. Wilbur continues to welcome the many individuals who have been returning for decades and consider Wilbur a personal sanctuary, as well as inviting back indigenous communities and original ancestral descendants. Blending hospitality, land stewardship and healing waters, Wilbur offers a quiet non-digital space, where anyone may find respite from today's busy life and deepen their experience of the natural world.
Project story
Wilbur Hot Springs: Restoring the Land
Wilbur Hot Springs sits on sacred 1,800-acre land, home to the Patwin and Pomo tribes for thousands of years. Once a thriving healing destination, the site endured a century of mining devastation before its 1970s revival. Today, this hotel and spa operates as a conservation leader, reinvesting all profits into land stewardship and a 1,560-acre nature preserve.
Restoring What Was Lost
In partnership with Tuleyome and Swiftwater Design, Wilbur is undertaking the Sulphur Creek Easement Project—a watershed restoration initiative that serves as a model for regional conservation. Their multi-faceted approach includes:
Watershed restoration through beaver dam analogs and road improvements that slow destructive runoff
Invasive species removal using sheep grazing, controlled burns, and strategic removal
Indigenous collaboration to restore ancestral land management and cultural gathering traditions
Biodiversity monitoring to measure ecological recovery
Creating Real Impact
Your support funds hands-on labor, expert consultants, and complimentary access for indigenous communities. The results? Reduced sediment and mercury runoff, improved groundwater levels, increased native species resilience, enhanced soil health, and wildfire risk reduction—all while honoring the land's ancestral guardians.
Wilbur Hot Springs isn't just preserving history. It's regenerating it.
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Round 1
Apr 23 - May 7, 2024
This round provided funding support for regenerative land projects and was conducted on Gitcoin.
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