Chapter Updates

By Shoshana Hebshi, Redwood Chapter Communications Coordinator When Karen and Stan Sommer fled their home on Bennett Ridge in the early hours of Oct. 9, the flames were coming up from Annadel State Park, which borders the east end of their...

By Tom Roth, Redwood Chapter Conservation ChairDespite a Trump administration decision to hold the sole California public hearing on a plan to expand offshore oil drilling in Sacramento more than 100 miles from the nearest beach, hundreds of...

By Tom Roth, Redwood Chapter Conservation ChairIn October 2017 disastrous wildfires roared through Sonoma, Napa, Lake and Mendocino Counties, burning over 200,000 acres, destroying more than 7,000 homes, displacing thousands of people and killing...

By Victoria Brandon, Redwood Chapter ChairSince assuming power nearly a year ago the Trump administration has proposed one assault on the environment after another, with actions ranging from withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord to wholesale...

By Teri Shore, Sonoma Group ChairI heard Professor Gregory Simon on KPFA radio talking about his book Flame and Fortune in the American West as I was evacuating to my sister’s in Petaluma due to smoke and encroaching fire near my home in...

Redwood Chapter had a busy year of building coalitions, working with legislators on environmental goals and meeting with members of the community. The October wildfires were a hugely devastating event that affected members in four counties in our...

By Chris Benz, Chair, Sierra Club Napa GroupSierra Club has endorsed a ballot initiative to improve protections for Napa County’s watershed and oak woodlands. Voters will face the initiative in June, and, if passed, it will be a historic, precedent...

By Tom Roth, Redwood Chapter Conservation ChairThe state Fish and Game Commission shut down the last abalone fishery in California for the 2018 season, the result of a collapse of the North Coast’s once vibrant kelp forest ecosystem.  Red...

When we talk about the cataclysmic wildfires that ravaged our region in October 2017, we talk about our personal experiences of compassion, fear, anxiety, helplessness or confusion, the cause of the fire, the response to the fire, the resilience of...

By Shoshana Hebshi, Redwood Chapter Communications CoordinatorFire has left an impression on Gregory Simon. He was 17 when the Tunnel Fire ripped through his neighborhood in the Oakland Hills, sparing his home but destroying everything around it....