Sierra Club (Redwood Chapter) collection
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Sonoma State University Library
2024
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Title: Sierra Club (Redwood Chapter) collection
Dates: 1958-2021
Collection Number: Consult repository
Creator/Collector:
Sierra Club (Organization)
Sierra Club Redwood Chapter (Organization)
Extent: 22 boxes
Repository:
Sonoma State University Library
Rohnert Park, California 94928
Abstract: Compilation of meeting agendas, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, newspaper clippings brochures, flyers,
reports and other materials that document local, state and national environmental issues.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research by appointment.
The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary
property.
[Identification of item]. Sierra Club (Redwood Chapter) collection. Collection Number: Consult repository. Sonoma State University
Library
Biography/Administrative History
The Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club was founded in Santa Rosa, California in 1958 by a group of longtime members of the
National Sierra Club. As of 1981, the Redwood Chapter is one of 13 chapters in California - one of 53 chapters in the United
States and Canada. The membership consists of a broad spectrum of people who are united in their enjoyment of the outdoors
and deep concern for the environment. The Redwood Chapter encompasses a geographically vast region composed of six local groups
representing all or part of Northwest California that includes the Lake Group, Mendocino Group, Napa Group, Solano Group,
Sonoma Group, and the North Group (Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity and Western Siskiyou counties).
Scope and Content of Collection
The materials are organized into 22 boxes and 56 Records Groups: Agendas & Minutes; Chapter Elections & Candidate Statements;
Chapter Operations; Internal Correspondence; External Correspondence; Political Issues; Fundraising; Membership & Dues; Retreats;
Awards; Redwood Chapter Groups; Other Sierra Club Chapters; Sierra Club National & Regional Meeting Agendas & Minutes; Sierra
Club Centennial Celebration Materials; Sierra Club Publications; Newsletters; Miscellaneous Press Clippings; Non Sierra Club
Organizations; Event Flyers & Related Materials; Sierra Club Outings; Air Quality; Anderson Marsh; Coastal Issues; Endangered
Plants; Energy Issues; Environmental Education; Forestry Issues; Global
Warming Issues; Hazardous & Toxic Materials; Indian Land Subcommittee; Laguna de Santa Rosa; Land Use, Open Space & Growth
Boundaries; Legislation; Litigation; My Ranch, Mendocino County; Nuclear Power; Off Road Vehicles; Oil Drilling; Pesticides
& Herbicides; Point Reyes; Population; Rural Heritage Initiative; Russian River; Santa Rosa Vernal Pools; Sierra Student Coalition;
Southern Crossing Bypass, Napa; Supersonic Transport; Transportation; Warm Spring Dam; Water, Miscellaneous Printed Materials;
Santa Rosa Marketplace, Wilderness Issues; Preservation Ranch; and Peter Ashcroft Files. The collection also includes a box
of VHS tapes and two boxes of photographs by Clark Nattkemper and others.
Coastal protection -- California, Northern
Environmental activism -- California, Northern
Environmental legislation -- United States
Environmental litigation -- California, Northern
Environmental policy -- California, Northern
Environmental protection -- California, Northern
Environmentalism -- United States
Forest and forestry -- California, Northern
Forest management--California, Northern
Land use -- California, Northern
Land use -- California -- Sonoma County
Public lands -- California -- Sonoma County