jesusgatos
Explorer
Does anyone here belong to the Sierra Club?
Sierra Club Members?
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Jonathan Hanson
Well-known member
We used to belong and volunteer, but we got tired of the head of the Arizona chapter, a strident woman with totalitarian views. So we send our money and labor elsewhere now - Audubon, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, Sky Island Alliance, etc.
In many ways the Sierra Club is becoming as much of a caricature of itself as the NRA (to which we also used to belong). Too bad, as it is a venerable organization and could be doing a lot more good than it is now.
In many ways the Sierra Club is becoming as much of a caricature of itself as the NRA (to which we also used to belong). Too bad, as it is a venerable organization and could be doing a lot more good than it is now.
6Pins
Adventurer
I'm a member. I don't agree with them 100% on every issue (and I'd be suspicious of any group that was in lock-step with my every view), but I find enough common interest to make it worthwhile.
Right now the big controversy in my neck of the woods is a ridiculous power line expansion called The Path. Its is a $3-billion, 550-mile line from the northern tip of West Virginia, southeast to Frederick County, Maryland, and then northeast to Middlesex County, New Jersey with 135-foot-tall towers all along the way. Also, Allegheny Power has plans for a $1.4-billion, 330-mile line, basically in the same area but ending in Maryland about 30 miles from Baltimore.
http://www.pecva.org/anx/index.cfm/1,517,1824,0,html/PATH-Map
Right now the big controversy in my neck of the woods is a ridiculous power line expansion called The Path. Its is a $3-billion, 550-mile line from the northern tip of West Virginia, southeast to Frederick County, Maryland, and then northeast to Middlesex County, New Jersey with 135-foot-tall towers all along the way. Also, Allegheny Power has plans for a $1.4-billion, 330-mile line, basically in the same area but ending in Maryland about 30 miles from Baltimore.
http://www.pecva.org/anx/index.cfm/1,517,1824,0,html/PATH-Map
viatierra
Explorer
Yep. Wouldn't that be part of the plan to modernizing the nationwide power grid?
motoexplorer
New member
I have not been a Sierra Club member for many years. Concerning big national organizations like Sierra Club and the NRA, certainly I agree with them in principle and what their core mission is. But like so many organizations in the US, organizations such as these have come to be dominated by their extremist elements - IMO. There just seems to be no middle ground anymore in our 'it's-my-way-or-the-highway' society.
Somewhere in between it all is reality.
I want a clean environment, I want interesting and challenging places to ride my dirt bikes, I want to go hiking, I want to protect habitat, I want to be able shoot trap/skeet and hunt pheasant, and I also think it is OK to have certain restrictions or ownership requirements on certain guns. Are these really so incompatible?
No matter which group's meeting I go to, I'm going to get yelled at by somebody.
Somewhere in between it all is reality.
I want a clean environment, I want interesting and challenging places to ride my dirt bikes, I want to go hiking, I want to protect habitat, I want to be able shoot trap/skeet and hunt pheasant, and I also think it is OK to have certain restrictions or ownership requirements on certain guns. Are these really so incompatible?
No matter which group's meeting I go to, I'm going to get yelled at by somebody.
6Pins
Adventurer
No. All the regional governors oppose the building as its pulling power from 2 large coal burning plants outside the region. It would pull power from a nearly 40 year old coal burning plant, and would severely impact the regions ability to develop newer, lower impact solutions. It also would impact the Appalachian Trail at points.
For Allegheny and PJM, the issue is they've got power plants in the west that are producing excess power, and they want to build this to carry the power from there since they can produce it cheaper. If it was really necessary, they wouldn't be trying to sneak it in through loopholes.
cruiseroutfit
Well-known member
Irony at its best. The Sierra club is in support of a major Wilderness bill that would close motorized and mechanized (bikes) access all over the state of Utah, not to mention oil, gas, mining, ranching, etc. The irony is that all of our elected officials oppose it too.
I think the Sierra club has some great attributes, service and stewardship are two major ones and I respect them for that.
