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Tehipite Topics

The Tehipite Topics is the monthly newsletter of the Tehipite Chapter. It is available in print and here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

Tehipite Topics - April/May 2008

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.

Tehipite Topics - March 2008

Contents of the March 2008 issue:

  • Chris Wicht Camp Cleanup
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • Sustainability for a Longer Living Earth
  • Tehipite Topics and Chapter Website
  • Tehipite Chapter Annual Awards Banquet
  • National Club Election Coming This Spring
  • Water Rage
  • Call for Yosemite Valley Volunteers
  • Rally in the Valley, for Peace and Justice
  • Outings
  • Luminous Mountains

Deadline for Tehipite Topics is the second Friday of each month–March 14th for the April issue. Submit material to Topics@BigBaldy.com.

Tehipite Topics - January 2008

Contents of the January 2007 issue:

  • Wilderness Bill Not What it Seems
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • Help Put Wild Pacific Salmon on the Road to Recovery
  • Tehipite Chapter Annual Awards Banquet
  • Sierra Club Election for Board of Directors
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - December 2007

Contents of the December 2007 issue:

  • Alaskan Summer
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • Ron Stork
  • Tehipite Chapter Annual Awards Banquet
  • Outings
  • Island Hopping in Channel Islands National Park

Tehipite Topics - November 2007

Contents of the November 2007 issue:

  • Get in the Loop!
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • ExCom Candidate Statements
  • Thanks to Chris and Bill
  • California/Nevada Wilderness Committee
  • New Wilderness Bill
  • Oppose Initiative Effort
  • Tehipite Chapter Annual Awards Banquet
  • Outings
  • Protecting Ursa Minor

Deadline for Tehipite Topics is the second Friday of each month–November 12th for the December issue. Submit material to Topics@BigBaldy.com.

Tehipite Topics - October 2007

Contents of the October 2007 issue:

  • Yosemite Committee
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • Dry Cleaners
  • Community Media Hosts Annual Meeting
  • PEG Access
  • Documentary
  • Water Quality in the Merced River
  • Valley Land Alliance
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - September 2007

Contents of the September 2007 issue:

  • Marie’s Century
  • Help Wanted!
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • Exchange Student
  • Marie Carnahan Article, Reprinted
  • La Querencia Fresno Cohousing
  • Valley Land Alliance
  • Outdoor Getaway in Scenic Eastern Plumas
  • Outings
  • Volunteer Opportunities

Tehipite Topics - Summer 2007

Contents of the Summer 2007 issue:

  • In Our Backyard
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • Making Green Choices in Our Housing
  • Temperance Flat Dam
  • La Querencia Fresno Cohousing
  • Victory at Sea
  • The Owl and the Oak
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - May 2007

Contents of the May 2007 issue:

  • Letter from Tehipite Chapter Scholarship Awardee
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • Tehipite Chapter Appeals the Kings River Project
  • Getting Smart Growth Candidates Elected
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - April 2007

Contents of the April 2007 issue:

  • California Smog Check Gets a Facelift Cover
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • It’s Your Club
  • Fresno Joins U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
  • Rally in the Valley
  • Outings
  • Your Articles and Stories Wanted
  • Desert Debris Back

Tehipite Topics - March 2007

Contents of the March 2007 issue:

  • Dear Tehipite Chapter Members and Friends
  • Chapter Meetings
  • Merced Group
  • Sierra Club Outings Leader
  • Training Workshop
  • Outings
  • Front Page Photo Information
  • Articles and Stories Wanted

Tehipite Topics - February 2007

Contents of the February 2007 issue:

  • Lake Hensley Hike
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • National Club Election Coming This Spring
  • January 2007 Annual Awards Banquet
  • Outings
  • The Village It Takes to Raise a Child

Tehipite Topics - January 2007

Contents of the January 2007 issue:

  • Checkered Flag Not Yet Waved - Merced Group Continues the Fight
  • Big Baldy
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • Annual Awards Banquet
  • Outings
  • Teach the River 2007

Tehipite Topics - December 2006

Contents of the October 2006 issue:

  • Adventuring in Alaska
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • Ecoview
  • Outings
  • New Caves Found in Giant Sequoia National Monument

Tehipite Topics - November 2006

Contents of the October 2006 issue:

  • Fall Sequoia Outing
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • The Amazon Rainforest and US Trade Policy Clash
  • Outings
  • Clair Tappaan Lodge

Tehipite Topics - October 2006

Contents of the October 2006 issue:

  • Jesse Morrow Gravel Mine Update
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • Voters Must Make Critical Decision on November 7th
  • Wildlife of Southern Brazil
  • Outings
  • Clair Tappaan Lodge

Tehipite Topics - September 2006

Contents of the September 2006 issue:

  • A Family Affair
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • Great Coastal Places Campaign Conservation Hike in Marin County
  • Mission: Possible
  • Voters Must Make Critical Decision on November 7th
  • The “Inyo Fest?
  • Outings
  • Sierra Club Hut Work Parties Meet Public Lands Day.

Tehipite Topics - Summer 2006

Contents of the Summer 2006 issue:

  • Cleanup!
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • Channel Islands Fundraising Cruises
  • Sierra Club California Lobby Day
  • Ecoview
  • Outings
  • New Tehipite Chapter Scholarship

Tehipite Topics - May 2006

Contents of the May 2006 issue:

Sierra Club Members Statewide Defend Monterey Pine Forest

  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • America’s Crown Jewels at Risk
  • Outings
  • National Park Service Approves Shuttle Service within Sequoia National Park

Tehipite Topics - March/April 2006

Contents of the March/April 2006 issue:

  • Dear Members and Friends
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • Earthkeeper Hero: John Muir
  • Outings
  • Annual Awards Banquet
  • Joaquin Rocks!
  • EcoView
  • Inner City Outings
  • National Club Election

Tehipite Topics - February 2006

Contents of the February 2006 issue:

  • Chapter Awards Banquet
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • Activist Outings
  • Wow! Visitors Remove Six Tons of Rubble from Crystal Cave
  • EcoView
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - January 2006

Contents of the January 2006 issue:

  • A Golf Course Only a Logging Company Could Love
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • Chapter Awards Banquet
  • Alaska Wilderness
  • Sierra Club Hikes to Save the Pines
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - December 2005

Contents of the December 2005 issue:

  • A Lethal Cover-Up of a Multi-Million Dollar Mistake?
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • A Poem About Ugly
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Ecoview
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - November 2005

Contents of the November 2005 issue:

  • Alaskan Adventure
  • Chapter Events
  • Merced Group
  • Sierra Summit 2005
  • Coyote Lake Hike Photos
  • Outings
  • November General Meeting

Tehipite Topics - October 2005

Contents of the October 2005 issue:

  • The Tip of the Iceberg?
  • Chapter General Meeting
  • Merced Group
  • Logging Project Halted in Sequoia National Monument
  • An Alternative Argument in Opposition to New Sierran Dams
  • Outings
  • November General Meeting

Tehipite Topics - September 2005

Contents of the September 2005 issue:

  • Governor Cuts Cash for Coastal Commission
  • Chapter General Meeting
  • Merced Group
  • Solar Homes Tour
  • Land of the Midnight Sun
  • Death Valley the Hard Way
  • Ecoview
  • Outings
  • Water and You in the Central San Joaquin Valley

Tehipite Topics - Summer 2005

Contents of the Summer 2005 issue:

  • High in the Backcountry
  • Chapter General Meeting
  • Merced Group
  • Bill Maher's New Rules for the Environment
  • Painting National Parks of the World
  • Ecoview
  • Outings
  • Sierra Summit 2005

Tehipite Topics - May 2005

Contents of the May 2005 issue:

  • Jesse Morrow–A Mountain Under Siege
  • Chapter General Meeting
  • Merced Group
  • Sierra Summit Delegate Election
  • Central California Regional Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Fair
  • Ecoview
  • Outings
  • San Joaquin River Cleanup Event Back

Tehipite Topics - April 2005

Contents of the April 2005 issue:

  • Adopt-A-Cabin in Death Valley
  • Merced Group
  • Chapter General Meeting
  • Earth Day Plus!
  • San Joaquin River Trail
  • Ecoview
  • Outings
  • Costa Rica: From the Clouds to the Coast
  • Sierra Summit 2005

Tehipite Topics - March 2005

Contents of the March 2005 issue:

  • Sequoia Monument: Sierra Club Goes to Court!
  • The Chapter Needs You!
  • Merced Group
  • Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
  • Ecoview
  • LeConte Memorial Lodge
  • Outings
  • Chapter General Meeting

Tehipite Topics - February 2005

Contents of the February 2005 issue:

  • February General Meeting
  • Tehipite Chapter Annual Banquet
  • Merced Group
  • National Activist Outings
  • Meet Your Executive Committee
  • Ecoview
  • General Meeting Schedule
  • Outings
  • Rally in the Valley
  • Meeting Schedule

Tehipite Topics - January 2005

Contents of the January 2005 issue:

  • The Buffalo Soldiers from Yosemite National Park
  • Tehipite Chapter Annual Banquet
  • Merced Group
  • Wilderness Scores as 2004 Ends
  • General Meeting Schedule
  • Ecoview
  • Goodbye to Martha Froelich
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - December 2004

Contents of the December 2004 issue:

  • Chapter General Meeting
  • Election 2004: Getting Over It and Getting On With It
  • Tehipite Chapter Annual Banquet
  • Glacier Point Hike
  • Merced Group
  • Excerpts from an Essay on China
  • Ecoview
  • Outings
  • Your Participation Wanted!

Tehipite Topics - November 2004

Contents of the November 2004 issue:

  • Paving the Way to Paradise
  • Chapter General Meeting
  • Measure "Z"
  • Merced Group
  • December General Meeting
  • ECOVIEW
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - October 2004

Contents of the October 2004 issue:

  • The Hmong Connection
  • Chapter General Meeting
  • Executive Committee Nominations
  • Merced Group
  • Panamint City Hike
  • Elderhostelers Seek Adventure in the High Sierra
  • ECOVIEW
  • One Earth , One Sky, One Future
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - September 2004

Contents of the September 2004 issue:

  • This is Your Newsletter!
  • New Outings Leader Policy
  • Chapter General Meeting Program
  • Merced Group
  • Mt. Rainier
  • Outings

Tehipite Topics - Summer 2004

Contents of the Summer 2004 issue:

  • The Tired, Tired San Joaquin River
  • National River Cleanup
  • Chapter General Meeting Program
  • Merced Group
  • Sequoia & Kings Canyon Draft GMP
  • A Skull in the Woods
  • A word from the editors
  • Clair Tappaan Lodge
  • Diesel, Dust and Dung
  • EcoView
  • Art Exhibit by Heather Anderson
  • Outings
  • Trip Schedule
  • Chapter Chair’s Corner
  • Engaging Our Members
  • June Conservation Meeting

Tehipite Topics - May 2004

Contents of the May 2004 issue:

  • The Coast Belongs To Us All
  • Chapter Meeting Schedule
  • Chapter General Meeting Program
  • Merced Group
  • River & Trail Gear Sale
  • Primeval Alaskan Forest
  • Is First Roadless Casualty
  • The Need For Better Planning In Yosemite
  • National River Cleanup
  • Outings
  • Trip Schedule
  • Take Action
  • Dinner with the Speaker

Tehipite Topics - April 2004

Contents of the April 2004 issue:

  • Memorial Service Holds Exxon Responsible
  • Chapter General Meeting
  • Job Announcement - Sierra Foothill Conservancy
  • Merced Group
  • National River Cleanup Week
  • ECOVIEW
  • San Joaquin River Trail
  • Outings

John and Marcia Rasmussen in trail tunnel at Pinnicles National Monument

The Tehipite Topics newsletter editors (John and Marcia Rasmussen) at Pinnacles National Monument

Email John & Marcia at
Rasmussen@BigBaldy.com

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