Chapter Updates

On Sunday June 28 several hundred exultant coastal advocates gathered at the Gualala Arts Center to celebrate the expansion of the Cordell Banks and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries. More than doubling in size, these protected areas...

by Victoria Brandon, Redwood Chapter ChairThis weekend the Bureau of Land Management threw a party to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the agency’s National Landscape Conservation System. Consisting of National Monuments, National Conservation...

by Victoria Brandon, Redwood Chapter ChairOn June 9, 2015 President Barack Obama gave final approval to athe expansion of both the Cordell Bank and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries, thus shielding the Sonoma and Mendocino coasts from...

CCA proposals have recently been made in Humboldt, Mendocino and Lake County. There are many potential advantages, but the decision has to be approached carefully, after weighing all the alternatives and conducting detailed independent feasibility...

The Chapter is very proud to announce that for the first time we will sponsor a participant in SPROG (short for “Summer Program”), the Sierra Student Coalition’s cutting-edge training program for youthful grassroots environmental activistsAn...

Members of the campaign for the permanent protection of the Berryessa Snow Mountain region are eagerly awaiting a White House announcement of the region’s designation as a National Monument, but that doesn’t mean we’re sitting around doing nothing!...

As discussed at length in previous editions of the Redwood Needles, a small group of extremists has come up with a seriously bad idea: they want a group of northern California counties to secede from the state and set up a new (...

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is California’s preeminent environmental law, and has helped safeguard the state’s lands, air, waters and communities for more than four decades. The law requires state and local agencies to assess and...

By Dan Kerbein and Janis WatkinsA coalition of labor, faith, environmental, and community organizations has unveiled a proposed Living Wage Ordinance for the County of Sonoma. The proposed legislation requires that the County, County contractors,...

President Obama is committed to taking action to tackle climate change, and is asking us -- all the residents of this great country -- to tell him what natural spaces are dear to us, and what he should do to protect them. Let’s respond by asking...