Solano Group

"The Sierra Club is America's oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization. The Sierra Club is an organization dedicated to protecting the natural environment and wildlife in the United States and throughout the world. The group educates people on how to conserve the earth’s ecosystems and resources to prevent wastefulness or destruction; lobbies for more legislation to preserve the environment; organize conservation programs and hiking trips in many countries; and publishes books, calendars, and Sierra, a bimonthly magazine." Currently, over 1.3 million members in the U.S.A.

Meetings:

3rd Mondays at 7PM

SOLANO GROUP NEWS

The Solano Group is coming under increasing pressure from powerful opponents to our environmental campaigns.

California Forever, the Flannery Group, is making headway toward its goal of building a new car-dependent city of 400,000 people on open farmland. Two cities, Rio Vista and Suisun City, have entered into negotiations with the Flannery Group to expand their city limits onto Flannery-owned land. Our Chairperson Princess Washington, a Suisun City Councilmember, made a principled stand against annexation and was voted down 4-1.

Flannery has bought more land around Collinsville on the Sacramento River in anticipation of building a new deepwater port, surrounded by the largest estuarine marsh in America. The County zoned it for a port facility some time ago. Rumors are flying about the involvement of the Trump administration and members of Congress. Solano County already has built-out port facilities with excess capacity at Mare Island.

On a brighter side, wild chinook salmon have come back to Putah Creek!

[New study shows a rare salmon population is on the rise in a Northern California creek]

‘A big deal’: Salmon make major comeback in Northern California creek

The State Board of Water Resources plans to take most of the creek, which drains Lake Berryessa, in dry years in order to ship more water south to users including the Westlands Water District, an unsustainable farming operation in a desert area of the Southern San Joaquin Valley. One of our Solano Club activists, while on the Solano Board of Supervisors years ago, was instrumental in crafting a sustainable environmental plan for Putah Creek that benefits wildlife, farms and nearby cities. Now that plan is under threat.

Sierra Club Solano Group PO Box 54 Suisun City, CA 94585 | sierraclubsolanogroup@gmail.com