Announcements

General Meeting

University of California Center, 550 E. Shaw Ave., Fresno

• May - No Meeting
• June - Plan Ahead - Author Robert C. Pavlik, an environmental planner and historian with the California Department of Transportation will sign and talk about his book on legendary climber Norman Clyde.

Volunteer Corner
No more cookies? This may be our fate at our
general meetings. Rae Marx, who has been helping
out for years, is leaving as hospitality volunteer. This
can be a fun job and only takes a few hours a month.
Anyone interested? Thanks Rae. You will be missed.
--John Flaherty

Articles

• PG&E’s Big Secret by Charles M. “Chip” Ashley (May 2008)

  “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
  — John Muir

  Sierra Club members need to know about a huge PG&E transmission project that will likely soon impact the Sierra Nevada foothills from Kern County to Fresno County, where a large substation will be built either near Humphreys Station or in Watts Valley. If this project is built, it will change the Sierra forever, in my opinion not for the better.

  The name of this project is the Central California Clean Energy Transmission Project, or C3ETP. The purpose of this billion-dollar project is to satisfy government mandates for renewables, to supply the Helms Project at Wishon Reservoir with necessary energy, and to meet needs of a growing population in and around Fresno and the northern San Joaquin Valley.
  Full Article...

• Make Every Day Earth Day by Heather Anderson (May 2008)

• Ferguson Slide on Highway 140 by George Whitmore (May 2008)

• Wilderness Bill Not What It Seems by George Whitmore (1/8/2008)
  Tehipite Chapter members need to be aware of a new bill that has been introduced in Congress, which will impact the Mineral King portion of Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, as well as the Redwood Canyon area. This bill would designate new Wilderness areas in Mineral King and Redwood Canyon. At first glance, the bill may seem to honor former Congressman John Krebs’ leadership in the 1970s by naming the new Wilderness in the Mineral King area as the “John Krebs Wilderness.” But there is a problem.
  Full Article...
  

• Get in the Loop! by Karen Hammer (January 2008)

• More articles in the Article Archive.

May 2009 Outings & Beyond

Take a hike, ski, camp. Check out the outings pages.