Blog posts from around the country
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
When we talk about wildlife in Texas, we often think about game animals like White-tail Deer, Fox and Gray Squirrels, Wild Turkey, and myriads of ducks, geese, and doves. However, every animal that is not a game or exotic animal, is classified as…
Grand Canyon Chapter
TUCSON, Ariz.— A federal judge today overturned the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a controversial open-pit copper mine in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains, citing the agency’s “inherently flawed analysis from the inception of the proposed…
San Francisco Bay Chapter
The Richmond Planning Commission hearing on July 18 lasted past 11 PM, with dozens of speakers testifying to the health and environmental impacts of coal and petcoke handling and storage. The ordinance would phase out current coal and petroleum coke…
North Carolina Chapter
Today, a coalition of water and environmental justice advocates released a study conducted by the Applied Economics Clinic (AEC), showing Moun
Wisconsin Chapter
Earlier this year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed removing the Gray Wolf from the Endangered Species Act. The Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club have partnered in creating an official proposal to oppose the delisting, and…
Alabama Chapter
Teaching Birding to Teachers: A Workshop Funded by the AMRV RC&D Councils, Alabama Sierra Club and the Alabama Birding Trails project. The workshop provided educators across Alabama with a free, hands on workshop at Wheeler National Wildlife…