Blog posts from around the country
Wisconsin Chapter
The Water Quality Task Force bills cover a variety of topics and legislation, and there is ultimately more good than bad within the group as there are five bills that we have registered in support of. However, there are still a few bills that we…
Wisconsin Chapter
Question #20 in the 2020 WCC Spring Conservation Congress hearing proposes badgers could be trapped and harvested (killed) for 3 years to study their populations. Badgers, an elusive nocturnal mammal, live in unknown numbers throughout the state.…
Wisconsin Chapter
Wisconsin’s next Forest Action Plan is due in June 2020. During the development process for this plan, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) welcomes public comments. 62 Sierra Club members and supporters commented on the draft plan,…
Washington State Chapter
The annual election for Sierra Club’s Board of Directors is now underway. Those eligible to vote in the national Sierra Club election will receive ballots in early March by mail (or digitally if you chose the electronic delivery option). This will…
Washington State Chapter
In late January, we received word that the Southern Resident orca, Mega (L-41), was presumed dead. Mega’s disappearance brings the population down to only 72 orca, the second-lowest since the Center for Whale Research first began its census 45 years…
Washington State Chapter
Every 30 seconds, the US loses a patch of nature the size of a football field. This is the kind of factoid we’ve heard repeated so frequently that we are almost desensitized to the meaning. Now, in an era of climate change, people are thinking about…
Alabama Chapter
The Citizens’ Climate Education hosted the first Faith Meets Business: Climate Solutions for the Common Good on Saturday, February 8, at the McWane Center in Birmingham. This event was orchestrated in part by longtime Sierra Club member Joyce…
Washington State Chapter
The winter of 2012 was an intense one. I was a busy extrovert struggling to adjust to new motherhood, exhausted by sleepless nights, bored by endless days at home, and feeling crushed by the unremitting grey of the weather. I longed to get out, to…
Great Waters Group / Wisconsin Chapter / Wisconsin
Eleven activists from the Milwaukee African American community received honors as "Environmental Pioneers" at a Black History Month presentation held at the Wisconsin Black History Society Museum.