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In June, I spent 4 weeks working on an archaelogical dig and living in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA), a protected area of (now) 260,000 acres in northwestern Belize. First a bit of history, Belize, formerly British Honduras...

This is the second half of the two-year grant that is enabling Jackie to bring free wildlife presentations to many school and community venues in SE PA that would be unable to pay for one. During the first year she has completed 20+ presentations as...

Happy September! It’s been a pretty quiet summer in Harrisburg, but things are going to get busy soon and we would like to share some thoughts on the legislative outlook for the remainder of the year.

It’s September! With summer winding down and vacations almost over, children are getting ready to go back to school, or have already started. And this year, back to school means back to an event called, “School Strike for Climate.”

Welcome to our third online-only edition of the Sylvanian, our long-running Chapter Newsletter!

Sierra Club has taken on the issue of plastics, particularly single-use plastics. So I have been trying to live without single use plastics and it seems I have to give up a lot more than just single use plastics since most packaging is, at least...

I just finished reading two novels (Barkskins by Annie Proulx and The Overstory by Richard Power) with no thought that the themes might connect. Both are about our profligate use of trees and destruction of forests. I was primed for the topic...

The PGM ONE summit reclaims the narrative of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from one that is centered on helping minority people feel included in majority white spaces to one that acknowledges that black/people of color are here and are a...

In a remarkable turn of fortune, a 110-acre invasives-overrun property where the hides of slaughtered animals once arrived by the railroad carload for tanning, is being restored to a forest of native trees with some help from a Sierra Club Huplits...

For the first time since the signing of the Delaware River Basin Commission Compact in 1961, the Governors of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware came together for the Delaware River Governors’ Leadership Summit in Philadelphia to make a shared...