No more general meetings until Autumn. Watch this space to learn about our next presentation. Enjoy your summer.
Email Karen Hammer at ecuagirl45@yahoo.com if you have any questions about or suggestions for our speaker series.
Exciting news! The Tehipite Chapter of the Sierra Club is starting up its outings programs again. The new Outings Chair is Barbara Showalter, who can be reached at 209-628-2065 (text messages are best), or at activespirit@comcast.net. We will be announcing outings through our website, through Facebook pages, and on Campfire.
We also hope some members will wish to become outings leaders. If you might be interested, contact Barbara.
Steps to becoming a Sierra Club Outings leader:
- Be a current Sierra Club member and at least 18 years old.
- Go on a Sierra Club Outings trip and get a recommendation from existing leader(s). This is highly recommended, but in limited cases prior multi-day group trip experience may also be acceptable, especially in a trip leadership role.
- Complete the Sierra Club Outings Leader Application.
- Complete a wilderness first aid class (or higher).
- Complete an adult CPR class.
- Complete the Sierra Club National Outings Leader Training.
- Complete additional training as required by your subcommittee chair.
- Be an assistant leader on a Sierra Club trip.
- Provisionally lead a trip under the guidance of an experienced mentor leader and get certified to lead by your subcommittee chair.
- Lead your very own trip!
You can also text Outings Chair, Barbara Showalter, at 209-628-2065 with any questions.
Hope to see you on the trail!
The Sierra Club is a national, member-supported environmental organization, which seeks to influence public policy in both Washington and the state capitals through public education and grass-roots political action.
The Tehipite Chapter Mission Statement:
- To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth;
- To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources;
- To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environments.
Read more about us here.
Conservation and Executive Committee meetings are held virtually via Zoom. If any Tehipite Chapter members want to observe or participate in these meetings, contact Chapter ExCom member Gary Lasky for permission and instructions.
Go to our Facebook page and "Like" us to help spread the word. New outings and events are posted there first.
Tehipite Chapter has posted recordings of recent Zoom General Meetings on YouTube. Click on the titles below to view the videos. Only our Zoom meetings are recorded.
January 15, 2026 — The Western Flyer's Timeless Journey
January 15, 2025 — Death Valley National Park: Land of Unique Challenges
May 16, 2024 — Central California Environmental Justice Network with Executive Director Nayamin Martinez
April 17, 2024 — Being Curator of the Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center with Connor McIntosh
December 14, 2023 — Giant Sequoia Regeneration After Recent Fires in the Sierra with Dr. Chad Hanson
October 26, 2023 — Beavers: Building Climate Resilience Across California
April 19, 2023 — What's the Buzz Around Regenerative Agriculture with Jeff Mitchell
February 15, 2023 — Save the Cougars! Building the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
January 19, 2023 — The Return of Gray Wolves to California with Beth Pratt
November 16, 2022 — Mountain Men of the Sierra Nevada with Shirley Spencer
October 19, 2022 — The History of Bears in the West with Tyler Coleman, National Park Service Biologist
September 21, 2022 — Fresno State Students Go Backpacking
June 15, 2022 — Community Choice Energy with Kirsten Andrews-Schwind of Peninsula Clean Energy
May 18, 2022 — Bring Back the Pollinators with Dave Kollen, Ambassador for the Xerces Society
April 20, 2022 — Western Artists and Their Influence on the National Parks
March 16, 2022 — Fresno Bee Reporter Marek Warszawski Discusses Mysteries and Lessons of the Creek Fire and Status of Development of San Joaquin River Parkway
February 16, 2022 — Glaciers and Climate Change
January 19, 2022 — Indigenous and Environmental Resource Center on the San Joaquin River
December 15, 2021 — Iceland's Remarkable Beauty
October 20, 2021 — In the Struggle Book Talk: A Call to Action in an Ongoing Battle against Industrial Agriculture
September 15, 2021 — North Coast Redwoods: The Heart of Interpretation
June 16, 2021 — International Rivers (part 1), International Rivers (part 2)
May 19, 2021 — Wild Utah! America's Redrock Wilderness
March 17, 2021 — Archaeology of the Sierra National Forest
February 17, 2021 — Salmon Restoration on the San Joaquin