Chapter Updates

Join us for a 3-day, 3-island, live-aboard cruise to California's Channel Islands!  Hike wild, windswept trails bordered with blazing wildflowers.  Kayak rugged coastlines.  Snorkle in  pristine waters teeming with colorful fish...

Redwood Chapter is proud to announce that we recently contributed $2000  to the Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation in support of an exciting project to build eight miles of trails at Taylor Mountain Regional Park and Open Space Preserve...

Late in the evening of Thursday February 11 a unanimous vote of the Benicia Planning Commission derailed Valero Refining Company’s plans to construct a rail terminal at its Benicia refinery to receive trains carrying highly toxic and explosive...

by Victoria Brandon, Redwood Chapter ChairAs has been discussed in previous editions of the Redwood Needles, the Sierra Club thinks the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) mega- trade deal risks unacceptable environmental impacts both in this...

by Shirley Johnson-Foell, Sonoma Group Climate and Energy Chair, and Tom Roth, Redwood Chapter ExcomWhen our planet’s diplomats at the 21st U.N. Conference of the Parties in Paris put the final touches on an agreement to combat climate change on...

by Teri Shore, Sonoma Group ExcomIn a big year-end win for greenbelts, all five Sonoma County supervisors came out strongly in favor of extending voter protections for community separators and adding to them in 2016! Community separators are one of...

By Steve Birdlebough, Redwood Chapter Transportation ChairCan the SMART Train be a good neighbor?  The residents of a working class neighborhood in Santa Rosa are about to find out. Many of them are Spanish speaking and living in low income or...

By Andrés Soto, Steering Committee, Benicians for a Safe and Healthy Community Just as Lac Megantic, Quebec was destroyed by a derailed train hauling dangerously explosive fracked Bakken crude oil, we in Benicia learned that Valero Benicia had...

The North Coast lost a legendary conservation giant on December 30, with the death of Humboldt County resident Lucille Vinyard, known to many as “the mother of Redwood National Park.” North Group Chair Gregg Gold remembers: “Lucille was a force for...

On Tuesday, December 15, the Lake County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to rescind a resolution thay had adopted on March 3, 2015, that would have placed an advisory measure on the November 2016 ballot asking if the county should adopt a...