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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 attend the informational
workshop the Board of Supervisors is holding at 1:30PM
on Tuesday May 6.
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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
Next
pickup date: Sunday May 11
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General
Plan 101
The
next Lake Group General Meeting will take place on
at 7PM Wednesday May 14, at
Kelseyville High School library as usual. County Community
Development Director Richard Coel will talk about
the important changes in the new General Plan and
what they mean to Lake County, and also discuss the
process for adoption, which is moving into its final
stages after close to six years of effort. The meeting
is free as always, and open to everyone.
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Urgent
Alert!
The
Governor's 2008 budget includes plans to close 48
state parks and beaches, including both Clear Lake
State Park and Anderson Marsh, with catastrophic
consequences for Lake County. We have to bombard
him with messages of disapproval. Download a petition
or form letter to mail or (better) to fax, in printable
pdf format or as a
an editable Word document,
or phone (916) 445-2841 and say NO! to this cheeseparing
atrocity. More
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Next
ExCom Meeting: the next Excom meeting of 2008 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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