Prior Events and Meetings
RIVER PARTNERS AND DOS RIOS RANCH PRESERVE with Julie Rentner
Tuesday, October 11, 2022 @ 7:30 p.m.
Annual joint meeting of San Joaquin Audubon & Delta-Sierra Group
Hosted by Audubon San Joaquin
Fireside Room, Central United Methodist Church
3700 Pacific Ave, Stockton, CA 95204
Free and open to the public.
To protect the natural environment, if the current state budget plan is approved, Dos Rios Ranch is slated to become California’s 280th state park!
Julie Rentner will share the story of the ecological restoration at Dos Rios Ranch that has been completed over the past ten years. The program will include details about the process to design, permit and fund large-scale ecological restoration. In addition, she will show the outcomes of restoration, from habitats for nesting birds and riparian brush rabbits to water conservation and carbon sequestration. Julie will also bring some of the updated climate projections for flooding that drive ecological functions in the river corridor, with some discussion about what valley residents can expect in the future for birds and other wildlife.
Julie Rentner is president of River Partners.
August 22, 2022 at 7 pm via Zoom: Click here to view video to attend the Group Meeting
Owning, Driving and Charging an EV is Finally Worth It!
Presented by Kris Ibarra & hosted by Delta-Sierra Group. Free and Open to All Interested Viewers
With gas prices out of control, combined with expanding charging networks, and lowering cost of battery manufacturing, it has never made more sense to trade your gas car for an electric vehicle. Keep more money in your pocket, never pump gas again, and consider an EV today!
Kris Ibarra is the Director of Imaging & Public Relations for the Tesla Owners Club and a Member of Electric Vehicle Association, both for San Joaquin Valley.
Biomass Incineration Presented by Daniel Barad Monday May 23 @ 7 pm via Zoom
Daniel Barad joined the Sierra Club California staff in June 2017 to work on forest biomass policy and ways to ensure that forest biomass burning in California doesn’t expand and create new pollution while displacing renewable energy. He is now a policy advocate for issues relating to biomass incineration, forests, wildfires, transportation, and electricity. Daniel also leads our Tracking the Dirty Dollars Project, which researches and presents in a readable format the campaign contributions to legislators and the governor from oil and gas interests. He graduated in December 2016 from Gonzaga University Spokane, Washington with a degree in political science and environmental studies. Click on the link below to view recording:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hFU8n0xfXsG7FVw5HNdA6dWzv8070R39/view?usp=sharing
Wildfire Resilience Monday, February 28, 2022 @ 7pm
Presented by Jessica Morse
Zoom Meeting recording: Wildfire Resiliance.mp4 - Google Drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PXkxN4cmUmrzhInT1-X7hdCm0ksROTKV/view?ts=622d67b1
Jessica Morse is the Deputy Secretary for Forest and Wildland Resilience at the California Natural Resources Agency. She is coordinating California’s approach to wildfire resilience including increasing the pace and scale of forest restoration and vegetation treatment. Jessica was the architect of the Governor’s $1.5 billion wildfire resilience strategy and developed the joint forest stewardship strategy between California the US Forest Service signed in 2020.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:
As a 5th generation Northern Californian, Jessica has grown up hiking, backpacking, hunting, fishing and skiing throughout the Sierra and California. Her family still maintains their original homestead forest land in Gold Run, CA. She dedicated her career to public service, serving our country all over the world including in Iraq. She developed innovative strategies and then coordinated multi-agency coalitions to execute those strategies around issues of poverty, counter-terrorism, and nuclear-non-proliferation.
Winter visits to our national and state parks
Presentation by Tim Viall
Monday, January 24, 2022 @ 7pm
Hosted by Delta-Sierra Group per Zoom:
Join us for an enjoyable winter visit to nearby or more distant national or state parks presented by Tim Viall. He opens with photos and details of deep winter visits to Glacier and Yellowstone national parks in recent years, full of wildlife and lovely nearby Montana and Wyoming towns. And also includes winter options in closer-to-home national parks, such as Crater Lake, Lassen and Yosemite, and state parks like Calaveras Big Trees and Sugar Pine Point State Park (home to some of the cross-country ski trails used in the 1960 Winter Olympics).
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:
Tim Viall spent his early career in advertising sales and management for five daily newspapers (Stockton Record, Sacramento Bee, Palo Alto Times Tribune, Spokane Spokesman-Review, Toledo Blade), and 20 years as a nonprofit executive, retiring from Stockton’s Emergency Food Bank nine years ago. For the past 8+ years, he has appeared in the Record newspaper each Tuesday as their regional travel writer, focusing on the valley, California and nearby Western states.
An Important Update on the Health of the Delta
Annual Joint Meeting of San Joaquin Audubon Society and Delta-Sierra Group
October 25 2021 at 7:00 pm
Please join us on October 25 when Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director and a co-founder of Restore the Delta, will be sharing an update on the state of the estuary, harmful algal blooms, and carbon sequestration efforts. It's an enormous effort to monitor all aspects of the threats to the Delta and our environment and raise the concern of our citizens.
Over the last 14 years, Ms. Barrigan-Parrilla has worked to grow the campaign from 70 to over 60,000 supporters who seek to ensure a healthy San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary and Delta communities. She has worked to give Delta residents a voice and to ensure that they have a direct impact on water management decisions affecting the water quality and well-being of their communities, while working for the advancement of water sustainability and equity policies for all Californians. Through public education and outreach, advocacy, negotiation, protest, and litigation, Ms. Barrigan-Parrilla has advanced the idea that state and federal government must recognize the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta as part of California’s natural heritage, deserving of protection, while ensuring the inclusion of the Delta’s environmental justice communities in planning and government processes.
We hope you will link into this presentation and seek ways to support Restore the Delta in all they are doing.
Powerpoint Presentation
Video of Meeting
Saturday, September 25, 2021 is National Public Lands Day (NPLD).
The Army Corps of Engineers has invited Delta Sierra Group members and others interested in environmental stewardship to volunteer at Knights Ferry Recreation Area on this day. During this event volunteers will pick up trash, partake in trail maintenance, paint BBQ’s, remove invasive species, and plant trees.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided for free, along with a National Park day pass for all participants!
Please consider participating in this NPLD event and share with your friends. If you would like to participate call 209-881-3517 and ask for Frankie Bowers, the Park Ranger at Stanislaus River Parks. I hope I see you there. Dick Abood Flyer and Release
PREREGISTER TODAY FOR COASTAL CLEANUP!! September 18, 2021: American Legion Park, Stockton
Delta-Sierra Group, in collaboration with the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Stockton, will once again host Coastal Cleanup for 2021.The date is Saturday, September 18, 2021 and the new location for us this year is American Legion Park in Stockton. Volunteer capacity is limited so you must preregister at:
http://www.sjwater.org/Stormwater-Management/California-Coastal-Cleanup
Preregister as soon as possible to ensure that you have a spot and so that you can receive a T-shirt. When you preregister make sure that you select American Legion Park as the location.
More information will follow.See you there, Dick Abood Site Captain (rabood@pacific.edu)
The film River's End will be available to view at your convenience from Saturday, May 15 - Monday, May 17
https://vimeo.com/showcase/riversend Password: river21
Friday May 21, 2021 7:00pm
Doug Obegi & Peter Drekmeier: Working to Prevent the End of Rivers
Filmmakers Doug and Peter, who appear in the documentary film "Rivers End", will be available to discuss sustaining and restoring healthy rivers and our imperiled Bay-Delta estuary. They hope to answer your questions on topics such as where California’s water goes today, the state of our beleaguered rivers and fisheries, what fish and wildlife need to survive, and how cities and farms can reduce water diversions while sustaining the economy through investments in local and regional water supply projects such as water recycling and improved efficiency.
https://sierraclub.zoom.us/j/6756586124?pwd=VkxEOUo0M1o1RFFhYWZnYVVrM2ROQT09
Opening Doors For Native Steelhead and Salmon Populations on the Calaveras River;
A Progress Report on the Removal of Barriers to Migrating Fish
Monday, April 26,2021 @ 7pm
Presented by Jim Marsh
Zoom link noted below
Habitat loss is the single most significant cause of species extinction in our times. This talk will focus on some significant efforts that are taking place locally--hidden in plain sight--with some practically in our own backyards.
Historically the Calaveras River was home to significant populations of migratory fish species primarily Steelhead Trout but also Chinook Salmon. Evidence of the seasonal passage of these fish up and down the river can still be witnessed by the careful, lucky observer at just the right times in places as close as the shallows under the Wood Memorial Footbridge on the UOP campus and in the rocky riffle under the Pacific Avenue Bridges.
Jim Marsh will report on recent work being done to remove some of the worst of the nearly 100 obstacles that face Steelhead and Salmon on their annual spawning journeys up and down the Calaveras to and from some of their most potentially fertile breeding habitat below Hoga Dam. Easing access to favored upriver habitat represents a major win in the efforts to conserve highly at-risk natural populations.
To join, click on this link or copy and paste into your browser: https://sierraclub.zoom.us/j/6756586124?pwd=VkxEOUo0M1o1RFFhYWZnYVVrM2ROQT09
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For more information contact Margo Praus margopraus@msn.com.
"Exploring Community Choice Energy for Stockton"
Monday, March 22, 2021 @ 7pm
Delta-Sierra Group monthly program meeting
Presenter--Davis Harper
Join us on Monday, March 22 at 7:00 PM for our monthly program meeting. On March 23, Stockton’s City Council will be receiving a presentation on a feasibility study examining the opportunities and economic outlook for launching a Community Choice Energy agency. Community Choice Aggregation is a state-enabled program that would allow the City to buy cleaner electricity at competitive rates on behalf of all Stockton residents and businesses and reinvest net revenues back into the community to meet specific needs. PG&E would continue to provide distribution services through its power lines, while a governing board of local elected officials would be deciding what electricity sources we buy from and setting rates for power generation. With a local CCA, millions of dollars in power generation revenues that normally leave Stockton’s economy would be retained locally, and could over time be reinvested into new, local clean energy sources, programs to help save people on energy costs, and more.
Davis Harper, San Joaquin County organizer with The Climate Center, will be providing more details on CCA and offering a space for people to ask questions.
You must register to attend this program. To register click on this link: https://sierraclub.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsfu2qrTMoGdEIZq_GDXOV-Iio3csdGEyq
You will receive a confirmation email which will include your personalized login information for the meeting.
For more information contact Margo Praus margopraus@msn.com.
“Beyond Coal in California” Friday March 19, 2021 7:00 PM Yokuts Group monthly program meeting
Presenter — Jacob Klein
Coal is known as a “dirty fuel”. Coal dust can cause severe health complications and typically affects already marginalized communities. Hear about where coal is currently running through California and the battles going on to stop this. We’ll cover the organizing and legal campaigns of the Bay Area and Delta regions, the problems with coal, and what you can do about it!
Bio: Jacob Klein (pronouns: they/them) is the Regional Coal Organizer for Sierra Club, Mother Lode, Redwood, and San Francisco Bay Chapter.
To RSVP for each month's Yokuts Group Zoom program send your RSVP to Jeff Olson, rayjeff49@gmail.com, in the week just prior. Programs begin at 7:00 P.M.
Monday, January 25, 2021, 7pm San Joaquin County Multi-Species Habitat Conservation and Open Space Plan (SJMSCP)
Speakers: Steven Mayo, SJCOG, Inc. – Program Manager
Steven Mayo, SJCOG, Inc. Program Manager, is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting for a presentation to the Delta Sierra Group regarding the ongoing habitat conservation efforts in San Joaquin County.
The San Joaquin County Habitat Conservation Plan (SJMSCP) provides a balanced strategy to care for Open Space balanced with protecting the stakeholders in the area, including the agricultural economy, landowner property rights, and the long-term management of plant and wildlife species. The SJMSCP has over 17,000 acres of protected lands in the County ranging from riparian, grassland and active row crop habitat to help proliferate the 97-covered species under the plan. The SJMSCP is administered by SJCOG, Inc., as a non-profit 501 (c)(3) entity, to ensure local control of the protected properties with local landowners.
The Waldo Holt San Joaquin Conservancy
Waldo Holt was a charismatic and much-loved conservationist and birder. The City of Stockton and San Joaquin County are poorer for his loss. Following his untimely death, his friends were inspired to create a habitat conservancy in his name. The mission of the Waldo Holt San Joaquin Conservancy is to “Preserve and enhance wildlife habitat lands in San Joaquin County and nearby areas for the benefit of people and the environment”. Our focus is on restoring and protecting riparian habitat. In order to restore and protect riparian habitat we use private and public funding to acquire conservation easements over riparian habitats that are in close association with other protected habitat, most notably San Joaquin Council of Government preserves
October's Emergency Preparedness Essentials: Preparing to Prepare
OCTOBER 12TH, 5:00PM–6:00PM PDT
Join REI for its three-part virtual event series on Emergency Preparedness Essentials in October. Back by popular demand, this three part series is designed to help you prepare for and respond to emergencies--including natural and man-made disasters. Learn the basics of identifying risks, prioritizing survival steps, planning for regional risks, preparing a "Go Bag," as well as sheltering in place throughout the whole series.
In this first session, "Preparing to Prepare," we will share principles of readiness and evacuation plan basics. The first half of this program will discuss the power of Positive Mental Attitude, S.T.O.P., and the Law of Threes, as well as survival prioritization. In the second half, we will cover how to plan for the environment and potential regional
risks, including how to source emergency plans and contacts for your area.
Register to receive the Zoom link for the first event in the series on
Monday, October 12 at 5 p.m. PT.
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AB617 Clean Air for All Agenda for Stockton Community Steering Committee Meeting #9
Agenda for the 10.20.2020 5:00 to 7:00 PM meeting includes the facebook link which is how the public participates. There is monitoring of chat which is communicated to the Steering Committee members.
“Water Harvest” Dr. Nancy Muleady-Mecham TUESDAY, October 13 7:00 pm
VIRTUAL Sierra Club/Audubon JOINT MEETING--Hosted by San Joaquin Audubon
Join us on Zoom, as Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Nancy Muleady-Mecham presents on water, its properties, occurrence, use, and power. She will discuss nature, history, location and use…..so much to learn about our precious resource here in California. Dr Muleady-Mecham has been a speaker for our group in the past and is a retired National Park Ranger. She is an Adjunct Professor at Northern Arizona university with a Ph.D. in Biology.
The meeting will take place on Zoom and is available at this link: Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Oct 13, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Stockton AB 617 Community Steering Committee meeting will be 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020.
Public participation: Join via Facebook Live -- www.facebook.com/valleyair Comments and questions posted on Facebook or submitted to AB617@valleyair.org during the meeting will be addressed during the meeting’s public comment period. The agenda can be found online here.
ADVOCACY & WATER PROTECTION IN NATIVE CALIFORNIA Flyer
Summer Speakers Series & Certificate Program June 5, 2020 - August 28, 2020
Hosted by Save California Salmon & HSU Native American Studies Weekly on Friday 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Register at: tinyurl.com/y9sym12d
Watch live at: facebook.com/hsunasp
AB617 Clean Air for All Agenda for Stockton Community Steering Committee Meeting #5
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 – 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Agenda
Public Participation: Join via Facebook Live - www.facebook.com/valleyair
Comments and questions posted on Facebook or submitted to ab617@valleyair.org during the
meeting will be addressed during the meeting’s public comment period
San Joaquin County Integrated Water Resources Planning New Times Get Educated to Get Involved
To register, for the June 26th 6 pm - 7.00 pm, please click: https://bit.ly/30B3boM
To register to the NEW June 27th 10.00 am - 12.00 pm: https://bit.ly/2BsglK7
