Chapter Updates

By Steve Birdlebough, Redwood Chapter Transportation ChairCan the SMART Train be a good neighbor?  The residents of a working class neighborhood in Santa Rosa are about to find out. Many of them are Spanish speaking and living in low income or...

By Andrés Soto, Steering Committee, Benicians for a Safe and Healthy Community Just as Lac Megantic, Quebec was destroyed by a derailed train hauling dangerously explosive fracked Bakken crude oil, we in Benicia learned that Valero Benicia had...

The North Coast lost a legendary conservation giant on December 30, with the death of Humboldt County resident Lucille Vinyard, known to many as “the mother of Redwood National Park.” North Group Chair Gregg Gold remembers: “Lucille was a force for...

On Tuesday, December 15, the Lake County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to rescind a resolution thay had adopted on March 3, 2015, that would have placed an advisory measure on the November 2016 ballot asking if the county should adopt a...

by Victoria Brandon, Redwood Chapter ChairJust as the Redwood Needles was going to press, the long-awaited text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) toxic trade deal was released to public view -- and the environmental consequences revealed in...

By Teri ShoreA new survey of Sonoma County voters commissioned by Greenbelt Alliance found that 75 percent would definitely or most likely vote “yes” on a potential county ballot measure to renew and expand protections from sprawl for greenbelt...

When Redwood Chapter leaders met with Congressman Jared Huffman in October, the cordial and productive conversation touched briefly on an exciting proposal to designate substantial new federal Wilderness Areas and Wild and Scenic Rivers in the...

On September 15 the Trinity Board of Supervisors gave a sharp backhand blow to the ruinous “State of Jefferson” secession idea. Instead of supporting the proposal as proponents had requested, putting it on the ballot, or declining to take action,...

Redwood Chapter is teaming up with 350.org and Sonoma County Conservation Action to provide bus transportation from Sonoma county the big NorCal Climate Mobilization march and rally to be held in Oakland on Saturday November 21.Chartered buses will...

On Sunday July 12 North Group excom member Ned Forsyth led a moderate six mile hike into the Mt. Lassic Wilderness and Botanical Area in Six Rivers National Forest, a natural wonderland characterized by sweeping views, vernal pools, stark...