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Tehipite Chapter

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The territorial boundaries of this chapter shall be as specified from time to time by the Board of Directors, with due consideration of the wishes of members of the Sierra Club residing within the proposed boundaries, and shall consist of all of Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, and Merced Counties, and all of Yosemite National Park including that portion of Tuolumne County therein, and all of Tulare County north of the fourth standard parallel (Avenues 384 and Elkhorn) including Kings Canyon National Park but excluding Sequoia National Park.

Announcements

 

Conservation & Executive Committees

Wednesday, May 14th at 7:00 P.M.
University of California Center, 550 E. Shaw Ave., Fresno, (across from Fashion Fair), 7:00 P.M.

Chapter General Meetings

University of California Center
550 E. Shaw Ave., Fresno
(across from Fashion Fair)

Wednesday, May 21that 7:00 P.M.

“Alaskan Wilderness”

presented by Heather Anderson

There will be a May meeting with a new update on Alaska. We need to know what is going on: off-shore drilling, intrusion onto native lands and hunting grounds, and continual drilling threat along the north shore, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. New DVDs.

Wednesday, June 18th at 7:00 P.M.

“Energy”

presented by Carl Zichella

Articles

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

    “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...

  • Wilderness Bill Not What It Seems by George Whitmore (1/8/2008)
    Mineral King ValleyTehipite 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
  • More articles in the Article Archive.

Tehipite Topics - April/May 2008

editors Marcia & John Rasmussen

Contents of the April/May 2008 issue:

  • PG&E’s Big Secret
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • Make Every Day Earth Day
  • Ferguson Slide on Highway 140
  • Water Concerns
  • Central California Science and Engineering Fair
  • No Fee Bill
  • Lobby Day
  • Outings

Deadline for Tehipite Topics is the second Friday of each month–May 9th for the Summer issue. Submit material to Topics@BigBaldy.com.

May 2008 Outings & Beyond

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

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