Sam Chapman, a Napa resident, was a Napa County Supervisor for two terms, from 1975 to 1983, following which he served as Congresswoman and then U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer's chief-of-staff for 22 years. With his permission, we publish this piece,...

Napa Bookmine and Napa Sierra Club Group will be hosting Rosanna Xia at Napa Bookmine on Second St. on March 5th, 2024 at 6:00pm. Please come join the discussion! Here's a review of her book.

Our November/December 2023 Newsletter

We have a lot of marsh here in the North Bay, a good chunk of which is currently bisected by State Route 37, a perennially congested stretch of highway connecting Vallejo to Sonoma and Marin, the shortest route between one of the most expensive...

Since the inception of the Sierra Club, one of the motivations in creating outings like this was to allow people to enjoy and experience the wonders of Nature, and then importantly, from that experience, they would work to preserve Nature. That was...

This December I will finish my fifth (and final) term on the Napa Group’s Executive Committee, completing 10 years of service. In looking back at the experience, I can sum it up in three words: WELL WORTH IT! Not just for the environmental victories...

“Se-ques-tra-tion” was the word of the day for 60 Canyon Oaks fourth graders who visited the Sierra Club Napa Group’s station during a field trip to the American Canyon Wetlands.

Our September/October 2023 Newsletter

This is an excerpt from a research article by Kathrine Richardson, et al, which was recently published in Science Advances Magazine. The entire article can be found here. The transgression of a majority of Earth’s nine planetary...

The following article was written by SC member Sam Chapman, as an LTE in the Napa Register. It was unanimously supported by the Executive Committee.