Chapter Updates

How do we survive a pandemic? The wrong answer is, of course, to ignore it. Be a wishful thinker, fill your life with distractions, and go on as usual. A price will be paid for that, as it will for the thousands of young people, and the people...

The rains have finally come in sufficient quantity to open dewatered creeks. And while these stream openings came too late to aid Chinook salmon, they have allowed Coho to access key spawning grounds in the upper Scott River basin where years of...

Environmentalists and friends came together from around the region on Friday, Jan. 31 to celebrate the work of Redwood Chapter and discuss environmental initiatives and issues that affect us all.

A roundup of recent climate-oriented actions and initiatives in Sonoma County.

Coastal Pygmy Cypress Woodland is a stunted, misshapen, sometimes boggy and often impenetrable, seemingly dead or dying otherwordly landscape. The City of Fort Bragg had planned a solid waste transfer station within the Pygmy Forest on Highway 20,...

Ongoing opposition to new gas stations around Sonoma County are forcing developers to back out of plans or take on legal battles. Sierra Club is part of a contingent of grassroots activists standing up against any new gas station, saying there's no...

Biomass plants emit three times as much carbon as natural gas (methane) and 1.5 times as much as coal. Its emissions include fine particulate matter, which is very toxic and causes significant health issues, including asthma, among people who live...

Reports and studies by the Air Resources Board tell us that during the next 15 years it will be necessary to reduce average vehicle miles traveled by more than 1% per year for each California resident. Merely shifting people into electric vehicles...

A California appeals court ruled Sept. 30 that Napa County violated state law in approving the large Walt Ranch vineyard development in the mountains east of the city of Napa. The decision sends the project, which would destroy more than 300 acres...

Climate activists turned out in force in at least a dozen locations in Redwood Chapter on September 20, determined to add their voices to the nationwide chorus demanding immediate action to halt global warming and avert climate catastrophe.