Feature story: "To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth"

This issue of the Yodeler focuses on the Chapter's varied activities programs and on our far-flung efforts to protect the park and wilderness lands where we enjoy natural recreation.

Photo by Nancy A. Piotrowsky. Big Blue Bird Over the Big Blue Sea. Santa Cruz. Photo Contest Honorable Mention

Special Features:

Enjoy & Protect: Your Chapter's efforts to protect parks and wildlands.

A celebration of the Wilderness Act and the work of our Wilderness Committees

Where we are in the Sierra Nevadas

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Priority Campaign Update -

The election is just around the corner! Have you done your part? For the environment, this November's election could be the most important ever.

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Activist Alerts

• State budget deal would hobble East Bay Parks.
• Federal fish story endangers health of subsistence fishers.
• Camino Tassajara settlement
• Public speaks out 10 - 1 against Palos Colorados permit!
• Franklin Canyon protection on November ballot
• Affordable housing for Marin shouldn't mean building in wetlands
• Sierra Club California sponsors clean-water/wetlands bill
• Water conservation still essential in Marin
• SFPUC slow to issue bonds for solar power
• Will Berkeley's Strawberry Creek see more daylight?
• San Francisco briefs
• A corporation's life: Pixar project needs to benefit rest of Emeryville
• Court kills Foothill Freeway funding
• How did your state legislators vote?
• Fluorescent recycling faces test in Assembly

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Job openings: Club seeks community organizers

Bay Chapter seeks two community organizers to coordinate local volunteer campaigns.

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Photo by Michael Arzabe. Where's That? (East Bay hills) 3rd Place, People In Nature

2004 Yodeler Photo Contest

The list of winners for the 3rd Annual Yodeler Photo Contest and the schedule for the exhibition. You can also views some of the photographs here.

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Find an Activity

The Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter and its regional groups and activities sections offer hundred of ways to learn about environmental issues and have fun!

See the Calendar and other listings in the Yodeler for a selection of the best activities for this month.

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© 2004 San Francisco Sierra Club Yodeler