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Welcome
to the Lake Group of California's Redwood Chapter of the Sierra
Club, which encompasses
all Sierra Club members living in
Lake County.
Highlights:
News
and Events
Latest
Newsletter (pdf)
New
campaign: It's
time to end the dangerous practice of drenching Lake County's
roadsides with chemical sprays. Read
more and sign the petition online
or download a printable
version.
New
conservation initiative: proposals to establish
a National Conservation Area in the
Inner Coast range bioregion (as described in the Lake Group
town hall meeting held on January 19) are moving forward:
Learn more
about the proposal as it evolves.
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We
Say No to GMOs
In accordance with national
Sierra Club policies on biotechnology the Lake
Group has given its formal endorsement to the efforts
of the Coalition of Responsible Agriculture to regulate
the cultivation of genetically engineered crops in
Lake County. We encourage all our members to visit
the Coalition website
to learn more about the issue, and to give the campaign
your own personal endorsement.
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We
Adopt a Highway!
The
Lake Group has signed up to keep a 2-mile stretch
of Highway 29 north of Lakeport free of litter. Participation
in this activity -- which is useful, good exercise,
fun, and great publicity for the Sierra Club -- is
open to all volunteers over the age of 16, members
and non-members alike. If you want to help out, either
regularly or occasionally or only once, please call
Lars at 279 4949 or send an email to larscrail@mchsi.com
to sign up
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News
Flash!
The
Governor's proposed closure of 48 state parks, including
both Clear Lake State Park and Anderson Marsh, has
been dropped from the budget. Unfortunately the
remainder of the "May Revise" is far less encouraging,
hitting hard at schools, the elderly and disabled,
and legal immigrants and augmenting revenues by
massive new accumulations of debt. Read
more
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The
next Excom meeting will take place at 7PM on Tuesday
May 20, at Watershed Books in Lakeport. All Lake
Group members are most cordially invited to attend this
(and any) Executive Committee meeting, but requested
to phone (994 1931) or email
Victoria in advance to confirm time and location since
details are sometimes changed at short notice.
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The
next Lake Group meeting
Will
be sometime in September, date, place, and subject to
be announced.
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