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Fox Valley Sierra Group
Activism
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Introduction
The Sierra Club exists for many reasons, all of which have something to do with enjoying
or protecting the outdoors. Our responsibilities concerning protecting the outdoors
require that we know the current issues, and sometimes that we become active. Sometimes
we need to help educate our legislators and other responsible public servants, and our
neighbors.
You may subscribe to our free e-mail "alert-list" to keep informed of special issues.
Many of the other groups have their own alerts that you can check.
Please also check our Flash Alerts page for local news flashes.
This page changes frequently. Please check it regularly.
PCB cleanup of the Fox River
The Fox River, running from Lake Winnebago to Lake Michigan, has been polluted. The current controversy concerns the
PCB contamination to the river sediment. There are proposals ranging from "do nothing" to trying to put a sand "cap"
on the river bottom to contain the pollution, to trying to remove the PCB contamination. The Sierra Club, and other
environmental groups are in favor of removing the contamination (through dredging) and having the polluters
(the paper companies) pick up the costs. The paper companies are trying to avoid paying these costs.
More information from our group
Fox River Watch page
Wisconsin DNR info page
Forest Preservation for Roadless areas
President Clinton proposed protection for the roadless areas of our national forests.
(Read his memo). We are very much in favor of this.
Wilderness Society: Roadless Area Policy.
Heritage Forests Campaign: Voters Say "Yes" to National Forest Protection
Sierra Club: Wildlands Campaign.
The Mecan is apparently safe, for now, thanks to the support of the people. Perrier was
surprised at the February 14, 2000 informational meeting to learn that people do not want this. However,
Perrier is looking for other sources of water in Wisconsin where there is less opposition. Perrier has
not given up its plans for Mecan Springs.
Perrier planed to pump and bottle water from sensitive environments in Wisconsin.
They have backed down from their request to pump from public property in
Mecan Springs near Richford, Wisconsin. But they are aggressively looking at other areas.
This is a NATIONAL problem.
As some of you may know, the National Park Service is updating the
management policies for the National Park System. This occurs once
every fifteen years or so in order to ensure the management policies
are up to date with current laws and regulations. The policies that
they come up with will govern the way our Parks are managed for the
next 12-15 years.
(Click to learn more).
The Redrock Wilderness in Utah continues to need protection. A representative of
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance came to one of our
meetings and gave us a compelling slide show and talk on why we need to help protect this
area. Please visit their web site and subscribe to their action alert mailing list.
Recycling Issues:
For those of you that would like to join an email list of people from all
over the world to discuss various recycling issues, there are two lists
that are most prominent,
http://greenyes.grrn.org/ and
Recycle@envirolink.org. Both are available for free and can be joined
or dropped at will.
How to subscribe to these lists:
For GreenYes:
http://greenyes.grrn.org/ - use the 'easy subscribe' link at the top of the page.
For envirolink: send a message with the single word of 'help' to the list adminstrator at
listserv@envirolink.org.
Both lists also have the past messages archived, with the
GreenYes list especially convenient to search for specific topics.
This archive is located on the Internet at:
http://greenyes.grrn.org/.
The Envirolink information may also be viewed on the web and subscribed to from their website
at
http://www.envirolink.org/environews/
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Sign up for the WildAlert action alert list from The Wilderness Society!
WildAlert brings you weekly news by email about threats to our wildlands
-- in the field and in Washington -- and what you can do to help.
Sign up today and help protect our nation's wildlands!
http://www.wilderness.org/whatcan/takeaction.htm
For most conservationists there are too many issues and too little time to work on them. With this website you can add your support on some issues with a minimum of time and effort. It includes timely information on some import conservation issues and includes easy-to-use preformatted emails and faxes that you can send.
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There is much information through the National Parks and Conservation Association takeaction page.
http://www.npca.org
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The tiny Town of Nashville is standing its ground against Nicolet Minerals Company, a subsidiary of the multinational, multibillion dollar Rio Algom mining company. The company wants to build an underground mine that would be partially within Nashville and extract approximately 55 million tons of ore over the next 30 years. Nashville is leading the fight in trying to prevent that from happening.
GREAT NEWS! On October 28, 2003, the Forest County Potawatomi Community and the Sokaogon Chippewa Community Mole Lake Band purchased the proposed Crandon mine site in order to protct the enfironment, northwoods tourism, and cultural resources at the headwaters of the Wolf River. The following day the application to operate a proposed metallic mine at the site was officially withdrawn, ending the threat from that mining proposal to groundwater, lakes, streams, and tourism jobs in the area.
A public Pow-Wow celebration is planned for December 6, 2003.
Please visit the:
No Crandon Mine website for more information.
Also see The Mineral Policy Center.
Campaign Finance Reform is an issue of environmental importance.
Click here to read the excellent testimony by former
Chapter Chair John Berge on two bills, SB 115 and SB 137. Please write to your own Senators in
support of these bills. John's impassioned testimony will give you great ideas on what to say. (April 2001)
League of Conservation Voters - Home and Congress Scorecards
Subscribe to LCV's free E-mail newsletter
(Learn what's happening in Congress).
