"Arctic Explorations" - a wilderness slide show

Tuesday, November 21 - Wilderness Committee meeting begins at 7 pm; presentation at 8 - in Yosemite Room at Sierra Club Headquarters, 85 Second Street (near Mission Street), San Francisco (near Montgomery BART/Muni station).

At the next meeting of the Chapter Wilderness Committee, Arctic explorer Dennis Schmitt returns to show slides of his most recent voyages to Greenland. Highlights will include photos of the new island in East Greenland which he discovered, along with the Duke of Orleans, more than a year ago; it is the most striking example of climate change in Greenland today. In the past Dennis has led Sierra Club outings to Alaska, including to the National Petroleum Reserve in the Western Arctic, and to the Canadian Arctic, and now leads for Ocean Wide Expeditions.

Vicky Hoover will also summarize conservation issues relating to the western Arctic.

For more information contact Wilderness Committee chair Patricia Jones at protectwildplaces -at- yahoo.com or call (510) 548-2204.