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Every year the Pennsylvania Chapter conducts an election for three at-large delegates to the Pennsylvania Chapter ExCom. We the Nominating Committee of the Chapter are seeking candidates for this year's openings. The requirements to serve are to be...

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Congratulations to our five awardees! The 22 nd Annual Huplits Wildlife Grants Competition has been completed and the grant recipients notified. A total of six proposals were reviewed. One proposal was denied funding because it did not meet the...

In June, I spent 4 weeks working on an archaelogical dig and living in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA), a protected area of (now) 260,000 acres in northwestern Belize. First a bit of history, Belize, formerly British Honduras...

This is the second half of the two-year grant that is enabling Jackie to bring free wildlife presentations to many school and community venues in SE PA that would be unable to pay for one. During the first year she has completed 20+ presentations as...

Happy September! It’s been a pretty quiet summer in Harrisburg, but things are going to get busy soon and we would like to share some thoughts on the legislative outlook for the remainder of the year.

It’s September! With summer winding down and vacations almost over, children are getting ready to go back to school, or have already started. And this year, back to school means back to an event called, “School Strike for Climate.”

Welcome to our third online-only edition of the Sylvanian, our long-running Chapter Newsletter!

Sierra Club has taken on the issue of plastics, particularly single-use plastics. So I have been trying to live without single use plastics and it seems I have to give up a lot more than just single use plastics since most packaging is, at least...

I just finished reading two novels (Barkskins by Annie Proulx and The Overstory by Richard Power) with no thought that the themes might connect. Both are about our profligate use of trees and destruction of forests. I was primed for the topic...