Announcements

Sierra's 2^nd Annual Paddlesport contest

Enter to win great prizes! June 30 is the deadline for entries in Sierra's 2nd Annual Paddlesport contest. There are only a few weeks left to win a Bell canoe, a Necky kayak, or a paddling trip to beautiful Southwest Florida. Go here to enter: action.sierraclub.org/paddlecontest

Conservation & Executive Committees

Wednesday, September 10^th 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, June 18^th at 7:00 P.M.

“Energy”

presented by Carl Zichella

Regional Director Carl Zichella will present a look at California and western regional energy issues. Zichella, a 21-year veteran of the Sierra Club staff, has worked on energy issues throughout his career and is presently an environmental representative from the California Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative, as well as representing environmental stakeholders in the Western Governors Association Western Renewable Energy Zone project. He will discuss the impacts of global warming on California and the need for and challenges of siting renewable energy projects and transmission lines.

In addition to his Sierra Club work, he serves as a steering committee member of the California Apollo Alliance, is a director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology, and the California Carbon Registry. Until recently, he served as a director of the San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Organization. He is a resident of Davis, California, where he lives with his wife, Sarah, and their dogs, Lambchop and Dudley.

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.

Tehipite Topics - Summer 2008

editors Marcia & John Rasmussen

Contents of the Summer 2008 issue:

• San Joaquin River Cleanup
• Chapter Meeting
• Merced Group
• California Wilderness Legislation
• Tehipite Chapter Scolarships
• Lobby Day
• Sierra Magazine’s 2^nd Annual Paddlesport Contest
• Nominations for Tehipite Chapter Executive Committee
• Outings

Deadline for Tehipite Topics is the second Friday of each month–August 8^th for the September issue. Submit material to Topics@BigBaldy.com.

June 2008 Outings & Beyond

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