Rio Grande Chapter

Celebrate National Public Lands Day on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) Saturday, September 30, by volunteering to work on popular multi-use trails that need a little TLC.  ...

Rio Grande Chapter outings report – Wheeler Peak, 9/9/2017 ...

Being in nature with a camera enriches the experience. You will find yourself looking for the bird making that noise, and once you take his picture, you'll have a record to help find out just what bird it was, then you'll want to know more about him ...

From overextended activists to those on the first few rungs up the activist ladder, the Rio Grande Chapter seeks members interested in serving on the chapter board. The executive committee, which meets four times a year, usually at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refugee facility, weighs in on the chapter’s priorities and helps deliver results in each priority. If you are a current Sierra Club member and are interested in running for a position on the executive committee, contact Ken Hughes at b1family@comcast.net ...

Some opportunities to help elect Tim Keller mayor of Albuquerque ...

Albuquerque has a city election coming up on October 3. It is critical that we elect a mayor and city councilors who support our environmental goals, from fighting global warming to protecting the bosque. As we know all too well, elections have consequences. We have endorsements for the mayor and two city council seats ...

By John Buchser, Chapter Water chair An unplanned release of 3 million gallons of water from the Gold King Mine over its mine tailings in August 2015 caused a pulse of pollutants that turned the Animas River yellow. After mining in the last of the 5,500 mines in the Silverton area ceased in 1991, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency compiled a full-time team of scientists to evaluate the situation. A federal $3 million fund helped fund researchers from major universities in ...

Many Otero County residents breathed a sigh of relief in May when the U.S. Department of Energy withdrew its proposal to drill a 3-mile borehole in Otero Mesa to research the storage of radioactive waste.  The DOE had identified five potential sites for its test site, one in Otero County. The other possible locations were in Quay County, New Mexico, Pecos County, Texas, and two South Dakota counties.  The test would require drilling a 8.5-inch-diameter hole down 16,000 feet. If ...

You’re invited to a fall series of presentations & discussions related to our Northern New Mexico Group priority environmental issues. September: Wildlife Wednesday, September 6, 6-8 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Church Fellowship Hall
107 W. Barcelona Road, Santa Fe Our speakers will address the issues of protecting and restoring New Mexico’s unique native wildlife and wild lands, and vital aquatic life such as the otter. Presenters

• Virginia Seamster, PhD, Share with Wildlife/BISON-M Coordinator, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
• Mellissa ...
  
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Contact: Lauren Lantry, lauren.lantry@sierraclub.org WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today in the midst of a national emergency along the Gulf Coast, Donald Trump’s Attorney General, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, is set to announce the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, leaving it up to congress to protect the more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants in the program. DACA, put in place by the Obama administration, provided protections from deportations and the ability to work and attend school for ...