Blog posts from around the country
Pennsylvania Chapter
Welcome to our first-ever online-only edition of the Sylvanian, our long-running Chapter Newsletter! See below for our table of contents and then read on to learn about our awesome newsletter team.
Cherokee Group / Tennessee Chapter / Tennessee
Monday June 9, 7-8:30 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 3224 Navajo Dr., Chattanooga. (Note where you see June 3, that is just the date this was posted)
Santa Cruz Group / Ventana Chapter / California
As proposed, Student Housing West—spread over two sites, Heller Drive and Hagar Drive—will provide housing for 3,000 students. To read the Santa Cruz Group comments on the dEIR (draft Environmental Impact Report), click on the image and read the…
Maryland Chapter
On Sunday May 27th, 2018, parts of Ellicott City, MD experienced between 5.36 inches and 10.38 inches of rain in about three hours according to the National Weather Service’s Baltimore-Washington forecast office. This downpour caused flash flooding…
North Carolina Chapter
Budgets are about appropriating funds, but they have long been a favorite place for North Carolina politicians to insert policy provisions that might not garner sufficient votes on their own. That tradition held true this week as the General…
Lone Star Chapter
Just north of Corpus Christi, at the edge of the small city of Gregory, which is literally down the street from Portland along State Highway 181 sits an empty field full of flowers. If Exxon gets its way it might become the site of the largest…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
If you’re hearing twittering followed by rapid, high-pitched chirps in your fireplace, you’ve got Chimney Swifts but before you call an exterminator to have them removed, it’s important to know that the birds have the law on their side. They are…
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Harris County will hold a special bond election on August 25, 2018 to approve flood mitigation projects. The date chosen marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey’s landfall. The public will be asked to approve the $2.5 billion of…