Sierra Club: North Group

Illegal Pasture Irrigation in Scott River Basin Driving Klamath Salmon Extinct

Felice Pace - December 4, 2019 0

Located near the middle of the Klamath River Basin, the Scott River watershed once hosted large runs of spring and fall Chinook salmon. With...

Science Projects Receive Awards; Spring Chinook Endangered

Sue Leskiw - June 1, 2019 0

For the 13th year, North Group sponsored an award for the best project relating to environmental issues at the annual Humboldt County Science Fair...

A typical Klamath Mountains forest burn mosaic. Notice that, except for some headwall swales, riparian areas typically burn at low intensity. Photo: Luke Ruediger.

Wildfire Shenanigans; North Group Underwrites Three Campers; Events

Felice Pace - October 1, 2018 0

Timber interests are once again attempting to use fear of wildfire as a means to increase logging and the Trump Administration, with Ryan Zinke...

Sierra Club: State Water Board Rebuke

Felice Pace - April 1, 2019 0

North Coast Water Board’s permits to control agricultural and forestry pollution are inadequate In recent years, I have personally filed numerous requests with the North Coast...

New Water Permit for Dairies / North Group Sponsors Campers

Felice Pace - October 2, 2019 0

Water Board Adopts New Permit for Dairies At its August meeting in Santa Rosa, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board adopted a new...

Green Diamond Resources (formerly Simpson Timber) is converting the North Coast forests it controls (this one is in Redwood Creek) into tree plantations. That increases the fire risk to nearby towns, including Hoopa, Weitchpec, Klamath and Trinidad. Photo: Felice Pace.

Sierra Club: Capitalizing on Disaster

Felice Pace - December 1, 2018 0

Capitalizing on Disaster: Why Recent State Legislation and Subsidies for Biomass Electric Generation are Very Bad Ideas In the wake of wildfires that caused terrible devastation...

Poorly managed grazing has resulted in bank and wetland trampling, water quality degradation and the removal of willow shade at Alex Hole, the headwaters of Elliot Creek below the Siskiyou Crest on the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest. Photo: Felice Pace.

Grazing Monitoring on the Six Rivers National Forest

Felice Pace - February 1, 2018 0

This spring, the North Group will join the Project to Reform Public Land Grazing in Northern California (www.grazingreform.org) to begin monitoring how grazing is...

North Coast Water Board Comes to Eureka

Felice Pace - August 2, 2019 0

Residents speak up for Elk River & National Forest Water Quality Two salient items were on the agenda of the June 19 and 20 North...

Anneli and Mathilde Macdonald, 8th graders at Jacoby Creek School, stand in front of their first-place project about nitrogen isotopes in tree rings. Photo: courtesy of Sierra Club.

Science Projects Receive Awards; Events

Sierra Club - June 1, 2018 0

For the 12th year, North Group sponsored an award for the best project relating to environmental issues at the annual Humboldt County Science Fair...

Sierra Club: Logging in Winter: Can Water Quality be Protected?

Felice Pace - February 1, 2019 0

Logging in Winter: Can Water Quality be Protected? When I first began paying attention to logging in Northern California back in the late 1970s, operations...