Adopting a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) or Natural Community Conservation Plan (NCCP) represents a pivotal opportunity for Napa County to safeguard its unique ecosystems while streamlining responsible development. These plans offer proven...

The desire to enjoy nature and the outdoors, whether quietly or actively, with family and friends--be it for a day, overnight, a week, or a vacation--makes recreation lakes like Lake Berryessa so popular and beneficial to local economies. Urban...

In the steep and rugged hills atop Napa Valley's headwaters sits a 60-year-old landfill with a checkered past and a litany of environmental violations, fires, employee complaints, lawsuits and neighbors relentlessly pleading with regulators and Napa...

Sam Chapman, a Napa resident, was a Napa County Supervisor for two terms, from 1975 to 1983, following which he served as Congresswoman and then U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer's chief-of-staff for 22 years. With his permission, we publish this piece,...

The following article was written by SC member Sam Chapman, as an LTE in the Napa Register. It was unanimously supported by the Executive Committee.

Napa’s lovers of wildlands were ecstatic this January to learn that the 2300-acre Walt Ranch on Atlas Peak is on track to be purchased by Land Trust of Napa County. The deal is not quite sealed, a lot more money needs to be raised (Napa Sierra Club...

Given the frequent conflicts between street trees and built infrastructure, such as traffic safety, interference with above-ground power supply lines, below-ground sewage and storm-water drainage, and safe pedestrian and bicycle paths, meeting the...

We hold that the highest and best use of all land in Napa County is that it be maintained as it is currently; farmlands should remain farmland, wildlands should remain wild. A corollary is that cities should not rezone agricultural areas of the...

We hold that the highest and best use of all land in unincorporated Napa County is that it be maintained as it is currently; farmlands should remain farmland, wildlands should remain wild. A corollary is that cities should not expand into...

The Sierra Club has objected to the designation of Skyline Wilderness Park as a prospective location for affordable housing. It is not for the kinds of reasons that people typically object to affordable housing in their neighborhoods. We object...