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Welcome to the Sierra
Club-Rochester Regional Group. The purpose of this site is
to provide information and enhance both communication and
participation of Sierra Club members and concerned citizens
in preserving our environment. The Rochester Regional Group falls under
the Atlantic
Chapter of the Sierra Club, which in turn falls under the
Sierra Club Home Page: Explore,
Enjoy and Protect the Planet.
To hear a recorded update on the National Sierra
Club's Congressional agenda and activities, please call our
Legislative Hotline at (202) 675-2394.
Join the Rochester Group & Keep Your Membership Current
by Cecelia Crone, Membership Chairperson. Membership
to the Sierra Club should be renewed annually. The Sierra
Club depends on membership dues to help to preserve
irreplaceable wildlands, save endangered and threatened
wildlife, and protect this fragile environment we call home.
Please do not become frustrated if you are getting multiple
new member applications. The national Sierra Club
organization is addressing a glitch that has been doing
this. A quick and efficient way to renew your membership is by
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The Sierra Club's members
are more than 700,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work
together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's
oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
Mission:The purpose of this Group is to foster (within its territorial limits) the
purposes of the Sierra Club, as stated in its bylaws:
To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; to practice
and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; to
educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural
and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these
objectives.
We hope you will visit this site
often and it will become a resource to increase your
understanding of environmental issues.
A
voyage to Protect and Restore the Great Lakes - This summer Earth
Voyager will be the centerpiece of events in a dozen port cities to
raise the profile of the Great Lakes and highlight the urgent need
and the remarkable economic, social, and environmental benefits of
restoring and protecting them. Events in each port are being
organized by local groups with assistance from the Healing Our
Waters® --Great Lakes Coalition and may include concerts, street
fairs, lectures, receptions, film festivals—even photography and art
exhibits on Great Lakes themes.
At each port the
festivities will conclude with a reception and press conference at
which elected officials and other community leaders will have a
chance to voice their support for the federal Great Lakes
Restoration legislation.
Following the press
conference, a flotilla of local yachts, pleasure boats, fishing
boats, and working boats of all kinds (plus a tall ship or two in
some ports of call) will give a rousing send off as the photogenic
Earth Voyager heads out to open waters for her next port of call.
Goals of the tour include:
• Heavy media coverage will raise profile of Restoration (the CBS
affiliate in Erie is already committed to covering at least half the
tour). • Presidential candidates and public officials from US and
Canada will focus on Restoration as issue of national and
international urgency. • Industry and Conservation groups will unite
in voicing support for Restoration, based on confluence of economic
and environmental benefits. (Restoration is a win-win for all.) •
Build momentum to implement and fund Great Lakes Restoration.
Keep
Informed on thePreservation of Hemlock/Canadice Lakes The fate of over
7,200 acres of pristine semi-wilderness Finger Lakes
will be decided this year. Sierra Club and most other
conservation and environmental groups in the region are
vitally concerned about the preservation of Hemlock &
Canadice Lakes including the Upland Watershed owned by
the City for over 125 years. A new water sharing
agreement between the Monroe County Water Authority and
the City is now being negotiated behind closed doors.
These discussions include the possibility of selling
Hemlock & Canadice to the Authority and/or (as reported
in the Democrat & Chronicle) possible commercial sales
of Hemlock lands by the City.
RAILROAD MILLS
SPECIAL ENVIRONMENTAL AREA AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW (It’s
a PDF file and you’ll need
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Reader®. ) Response to the project application by the
Town of Victor for TEP funding for the Auburn Trail Extension A
POSITION PAPER Updated April 19, 2007 by the COALITION TO SAVE
THE RAILROAD MILLS SPECIAL ENVIRONMENTAL AREA With Support Letters from: Sierra Club,
Rochester Regional Group Burroughs Audubon Nature Club Rochester
Birding Association Rochester Butterfly Club Genesee Valley
Audubon Society
Take Action:
Take Action Main - Sierra Club Stop here and help the
National Sierra Club take action, by using your online
connection to affect change.
Pass the Bigger Better Bottle Bill! For Cleaner Communities and a
Healthier Environment The bottle bill is New York’s most effective
recycling and litter prevention program. Since 1982, more than 90 billion
bottles and cans have been returned and recycled in New York because of the
5-cent refundable deposit on beer and soda containers. The bottle bill has
worked hand in hand with local recycling programs to make our communities
cleaner and healthier places to live.
City and RRG Explore
Tree Planting Program - Do you love our native trees. Do you enjoy planting
trees? Here is a great new project for adults and young people. The Sierra Club
has initiated an innovative project with City Forester, Carol Kodweis, to plant
trees in Cobb's Hill Park. The park has many grand old trees but is changing as
invasives like the Norway maple gain a foothold. We are looking for volunteers
who would like to learn how to identify trees, help map their distribution, and
chart locations of invasive species. We will also note which species are
reproducing and which seem to be dwindling. Then we will propose plantings of
native species and a gradual removal of the invasives to restore and diversify
the forest. We anticipate this program will be at least partially funded by
grants and serve as a model for other parks in the city. This is a hands-on,
learning project that will preserve our park for future generations. Please
contact Peter Debes, at
phdebes@frotniernet.net to get involved
Make a Tax Deductible
Contribution:
If you want to make a tax-deductible contribution
you can do it in a way that will directly benefit the Rochester
Regional Group of the Sierra Club. Cash, stocks, or bonds can
be given to the Sierra Club Foundations marked "For use by the
Rochester Regional Group." (Include #FC1959 on your
check) For Stocks or bonds contact: sierra_rochester@yahoo.com Also,
it's not too early to be thinking about Sierra Club 2002 Calendars.
Buying calendars from us helps the Rochester Regional Group. For
information or to place an order, call Ray Nelson at 342-2734 or e-mail to rlnelson@eznet.net
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