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As the seasons turn, your local Toiyabe Chapter activists keep working to protect lands, waters, wildlife, and communities here in Nevada and the Eastern Sierra. Read on for updates and opportunities to get involved. Thanks for caring.
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Appreciation Year-End Party
Join us December 14 at 6pm
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." — Helen Keller
 Let’s gather together (still virtually) to celebrate a year of activism and appreciation. Join us for our Year-End Celebration! Share your favorite accomplishment from this past year, gratitude for others and our work together!Bring fun drinks, food and recipes, and stories. Leave with appreciation for what we've accomplished, and maybe a new friend or two. When: Tuesday, December 14th
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Where: Virtual - RSVP Here
We’ve been learning and applying new skills, and pulling together as we create and enhance teams. Along the way we have been making new friends, creating partnerships, influencing and persuading community members. This is how we change the world. Time to celebrate together!
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Become a Monthly Donor, and Mark from Missouri Will Match Your First Two Months' Gifts
 Mark Ferguson is a generous and creative donor. He's offering to match everyone who becomes a monthly donor to their local Chapter, anywhere in the country, even here.
Mark's message: "I know how important the work your Sierra Club chapter is. I’m offering a good reason to become a monthly donor to your home chapter: If you sign up today, I'll match all new gifts for the first two months--up to $10,000.
When you commit $10/month, I'll send your chapter an extra $20 >>
You commit $15/month, I'll send $30 >>
You commit $30/month, I'll send $60 >>
Trust me: Sierra Club chapters are efficient and effective investments. Led in an innovative model combining passionate local volunteers and experienced professional staff, chapters make incredible things happen. The work every chapter does impacts us all.
That's why I give, and I hope you'll join me. Support your chapter today and I'll *double match* your monthly commitment."
Thanks Mark!
Help Toiyabe Chapter get some of Mark's money, and support local activism every month. Become a monthly donor to Toiyabe Chapter. Thank you!
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Southern Nevada Group
Help Create the Clark County Sustainability Plan.
Take the All-In County Survey
 With Las Vegas' deadly summer heat, air pollution and Lake Mead's disappearing water, Clark County is on the front lines of the climate crisis. An important contributor to these ills is the region's carbon-intensive, resource-wasting sprawl development. The only way Clark County will avert even more catastrophic effects of climate disruption is a wholesale shift toward sustainability and resilience.
Luckily, Clark County's "All-In" project is gathering information to craft a county-wide Sustainability & Climate Action Plan, which will "outline the opportunities to address climate change and prepare for climate impacts in each part of our community."
Clark County residents, your voice, concerns, and recommendations are needed to inform the best solutions and underscore the County's urgency to act to avert the worst impacts.
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Speaking of Sprawl...
 At the same time Clark County seeks input on their Sustainability & Climate Action Plan, they are supporting federal legislation to expand Las Vegas' footprint by more than 65 square miles. We cannot keep sprawling and combat our climate crisis! If you haven't already, sign the petition below to demand Nevada's federal delegation and the Clark County Commission abandon the sprawling portions of the Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act.
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SNG Speaker Series: Nick Saines and the Geological Treasures of Red Rocks
 Not only is Nick Saines Southern Nevada Group's Outings Chair, he leads great outings, and he knows what he's talking about on the trail.
Join us at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, November 17 to hear Dr. Nick Saines, author of the ebook Geological Treasures of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, talk about the geology of Red Rock Canyon.
This talk will be an overview of the geology of greater Red Rock Canyon, including Spring Mountain Ranch, with emphasis on major geological formations and features, and the discovery of dinosaur tracks in the Jurassic rocks.
His ebook is jam packed with authoritative information on how Red Rock Canyon was formed and evolved. Order it here for $8.95 with all proceeds donated to support conservation!
Sign up for this virtual talk via Zoom or through Facebook Live at the Sierra Club - Southern Nevada Group's Facebook page.
And save the date for December 15, when SNG ExCom member and director of Nevada Plants talks about food deserts in Las Vegas.
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Support Builds for the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument
 An amazing coalition of activists from Sierra Club, other organizations, and local Indigenous tribes are building power and public support for the designation of the Avi Kwa Ame proposed National Monument.
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Great Basin Group
Washoe County Activists Needed!
 As you read this, developers are requesting Senator Rosen to make parcels of YOUR public lands available for auction and development. Where will these developments take place? Will the Senator's legislation also protect your favorite hiking trails and wildlife habitats around the Truckee Meadows? Will Washoe County choose sprawl or smart growth as our population grows? And what about water and the impacts of continued carbon-intensive development on heat, pollution, and vulnerable communities?
The answers depend on you. Washoe County's future needs your voice. Join Sierra Club's Washoe County team to ensure that any possible federal lands legislation for Washoe County brings more good than harm to our families, neighbors, waters, wildlife, and open spaces.
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Tahoe Area Group
Sierra Club Submits Comments in Defense of Lake Tahoe against Herbicides and Weeds!
 On November 1, the Sierra Club Tahoe Area Group submitted these comments in response to the Lahontan Water Quality Board's consideration of a permit to allow the use of herbicides to control aquatic invasive weeds overwhelming the Tahoe Keys lagoons. (Thank you, Tobi Tyler and other volunteers for drafting these comments). The Lahontan board will decide whether to move forward with the permit (and the poisoning) at their board meeting in January.
We're going to need your help to protect Lake Tahoe's legendary water quality.
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Washoe Meadows State Park Saved from Golf!
 Thanks to great work by our coalition of conservation groups, grass-roots support, and legal action, California State Parks has withdrawn their plan to destroy Washoe State Park resources by moving the golf course in to the park (all under the guise of a river restoration project). While we celebrate this win, we must stay vigilant.
Learn more here.
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Range of Light Group
Save Every Last Drop
 To understand the real impact of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP’s) activities in the Eastern Sierra, sign up for the Keep Long Valley Green’s new newsletter, Every Last Drop. The newsletter will spotlight LADWP actions, past and current, and tell the inconvenient truth that LADWP won’t tell. The articles are short, but concise. Subscribe now and catch up by reading the first 5 editions of the newsletter.
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Support Local Environmental Activism
Everything you read here requires money to support the activists and staff who do this work every day.
Be generous. Donate today.
All funds stay here in Nevada and the Eastern Sierra.
Thank you!
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