Chapter Updates

by Victoria Brandon, Redwood Chapter ChairOn August 24 Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke presented the long-awaited results of his “review” of 27 national monuments, including our own Berryessa Snow Mountain. Instead of the specific details that had...

What's the SMART train and what's so good about it? The Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) service restores passenger trains to the rail right-of-way to allow commuters to travel without a car between Sonoma and Marin counties.The rail service...

by Victoria Brandon, Redwood Chapter Chair The comment period on the Department of the Interior’s “review” of 22 national monuments and five marine sanctuaries closed on July 10, ironically enough two years to the day from the designation of our...

By Teri Shore, Sonoma Group Chair Just months after 81 percent of Sonoma County voters passed Measure K to protect community separators for the next 20 years, a luxury resort and large scale special event center is being proposed on the north edge...

By Shoshana Hebshi, Redwood Chapter Communications CoordinatorWhen President Trump announced he would pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement May 31, it felt like a national day of mourning to many concerned about the future of the planet. But the...

In May, the Trump administration announced plans to “review” the status of 22 terrestrial national monuments and five marine sanctuaries, including our local Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument and Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National...

On June 13 the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution opposing the Trump administration’s call for a “review” of the Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries off the county’s shores. The...

Sierra Club Sonoma Group jumped into the action this summer to encourage mayors within the county to sign on to clean energy agreements to help mitigate climate change. Activists have been discussing the issue with city leaders for months, but...

by Victoria Brandon, Redwood Chapter ChairThe Trump administration’s hostility to environmental protection is no secret, and there have been rumblings about its intention to weaken public lands safeguards since well before the inauguration....

For months now Solano Group has been among the leaders of a group of Vallejo residents opposing a proposed cement plant and marine port in South Vallejo that would devastate a disadvantaged neighborhood and impair Mare Island Strait, the Napa River...