Sierra Club members in our area share concerns about environmental issues that affect us and our community. These range from global to local issues. Learn what we are doing about them and how you can get add your voice.
We also take an active role in supporting legislative action on the environment. Scott Banbury, our Conservation Program Coordinator, lobbies our legislators, attends legislative sessions and keeps us informed on environmentally important bills so we can contact our own representatives.
Current Environmental Issues
I-40 Traffic Corridor Proposal
A "recommendations that could provide some immediate relief - including engineering improvements, making the use of KAT and carpools more appealing, encouraging flexible work hours (to spread out rush hour) and work-from-home, discouraging through traffic during rush hour, and improved biking network..."
"...proposed new section would extend the Foothills Parkway within the existing NPS-managed corridor for 9 miles from Wears Valley to the Southbound Spur near Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee..."
HBG Successes
Preserving areas in Tennessee as wilderness including: Upper Bald River Wilderness (9,038 acres) and Big Frog Wilderness Addition (348 acres)