Outings and Events for March 2018
March 4, 2018
Outings and events across Alabama from the North Alabama Group to the Mobile Bay Group and everything in between. Don't miss out on an opportunity to learn more about Alabama! Explore!
Birmingham Audubon Mountain Workshop
March 3, 2018
Birmingham Audubon Mountain Workshop, one of the Southeast’s largest and oldest events dedicated to the natural history of the southern Appalachians, returns to Mentone for the 42nd year! We hope you’ll consider joining us in May 2018 as we...
The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign in Montgomery
March 3, 2018
The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign has opened an office in Montgomery, housing the Club’s only national-level staffer based in Alabama. Stephen Stetson, a senior campaign rep for the Beyond Coal Campaign, is focusing his attention on clean...
Corps Admits to Contributing to Erosion of Dauphin Island
March 2, 2018
Dauphin Island is Alabama's only barrier island. The island is crucial to forming Mobile Bay, the fourth largest estuary in the United States. In 2007, the US Geological Survey reported Dauphin Island has been eroding in 1958, with the erosion...
Anti Forever Wild Bill Fails on Tuesday, Resurrected Thursday and Fails Again!
March 2, 2018
On Tuesday, HB 362, the anti-Forever Wild bill, was defeated in the House. We all breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the attempts to tax Alabama’s public lands were done once and for all this session. Unfortunately, like something right out...
The Alabama Water Conservation & Security Act (HB416)
March 2, 2018
At this time, our partners at Alabama Rivers Alliance are focusing this action on the members of the House Agriculture Committee. If one of these committee members is your House member, please call or write them THIS WEEK and tell them to support...
Sea Ice in the Arctic at Lowest; Temperatures at Highest
February 27, 2018
On February 19-20, the northern most weather station on Earth, Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland, experienced temperatures above freezing (about 45 degrees above normal) for over 24 hours. Around then and far to the west, the extent of the sea ice...
February 2018 Outings and Events
February 5, 2018
Outings and events across Alabama from the North Alabama Group to the Mobile Bay Group and everything in between. Don't miss out on an opportunity to learn more about Alabama! Explore!
Forever Wild Under Attack AGAIN!
February 3, 2018
With the introduction of House Bill 362, our state's public lands are at once again at risk. Ask the House State Government Committee to vote NO on HB 362.
Coosa Riverkeeper 2017: Year at a Glance
February 3, 2018
The Alabama Chapter of the Sierra Club supports important environmental groups throughout the year. Once such group, Coosa Riverkeeper, along with all the other RiverKeepers in Alabama, continues to make our water safer!