Sierra Club

  • New Sierra Club chief brings confrontational style to the job

    Ralph Maughan

    Michael Brune is a big foe of industrial polluters- He has a hard job ahead after yesterday’s Supreme Court decision giving corporations more political power than they have had in a hundred years. New Sierra Club chief brings confrontational style to the job. “The new leader of the US’s largest environmental group will come to…

  • Conservation groups not satisfied with new critical habitat boundaries for lynx

    Ralph Maughan

    Sierra Club and others file lawsuit- The recent designation of more critical habitat for the recovery of the lynx was another response to Julie MacDonald’s political meddling during the Bush Administration. The major remaining point of contention is the desired addition of Colorado where a state-funded lynx restoration project that brought lynx in from Canada,…

  • Carl Pope Switches Roles at the Sierra Club

    Ralph Maughan

    Most media are saying, “Pope steps down” Carl Pope Switches Roles at the Sierra Club. By Kate Galbraith. New York Times. This makes a lot of news not just because of the size of the Sierra Club, but its high level of activity. Pope has been the Club’s executive director for a long time. He…

  • Reaction to the latest try to delist wolves-

    Ralph Maughan

    Here are links to a number of reactions- NRDC. Flawed Flip-Flop on Wolves. Bush Administration changes course again with Endangered Species List re-removal. Defenders of Wildife. Bush administration rushes to strip protections from Northern Rockies wolves. Despite previous court decisions, administration again ignores Endangered Species Act requirements. Wyoming Chapter of the Sierra Club- News Release…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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