Blog posts from around the country
Hoosier Chapter
Welcome to the latest from the Southwest Indiana Network of the Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter.
In this newsletter:
🥾 Join us on the trail: Howell Wetlands Earth Month Outing
🧣Tales from the Trail: Embracing the Cold and Moving Beyond Coal
⚡️Indiana…
Observations in Sam Houston National Forest at Big Creek Scenic Area and About the Sabine Wake-Robin
By Brandt Mannchen - At the end of February, on behalf of the Sierra Club, I visited Big Creek Scenic Area and Compartment 96 where a unique and rare plant, the Sabine Wake-robin (Trillium gracile), lives.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
By Brandt Mannchen - In February, I hiked the 25-acre Peckinpaugh Preserve and the 2,100-acre Spring Trails Preserve in Montgomery County, Texas.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
On March 14, 2026, the Houston Sierra Club hiked 2 miles in Jones State Forest. This 1,700-acre state forest was created in 1926 and is managed by Texas A&M University (Texas Forest Service).
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
The Houston Sierra Club and its Bay Area Sierra Club subgroup visited and enjoyed wetlands, wildflowers, ponds, and walking trails at Exploration Green.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
Peach Creek Woods has become the Houston Audubon Society’s 18th nature sanctuary. One of our own, Tom Maddux, has come through again.
Houston Group / Lone Star Chapter / Texas
By Brandt Mannchen - On March 5, 2026, a town hall meeting in the Channelview area was about barges and air pollution: The San Jacinto Pollution Town Hall: Chemical Barges.
Maryland Chapter
[update: the legislation was amended on March 17 to limit the size of the cut to Empower]
New Jersey Chapter
TRENTON, NJ – Today, members of the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee, including Assemblyman Kennedy, Assemblywoman Collazos-Gill, Assemblyman Bhalla, and Assemblyman Spearman, released two critical scrap metal bills, A2401(Moen)…