14th Annual Snow Goose Festival

We look forward to seeing you in January! Best Regards,
The Registration Team
Snow Goose Festival
635 Flume St.
Chico, California 95928
530-345-1865
http://snowgoosefestival.org/

The Question of Fracking

Yahi Program Meeting:  November 1, 2012

On Thursday, November 1, there will be a Yahi program meeting at the Chico Branch Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue, at 7:00 PM.  Our speaker for that evening will be Dave Garcia who will talk about fracking, the use of hydraulic fracturing to obtain natural gas or oil.

Dave, a local activist and former Sierra Club Board Chairman, is knowledgeable about the fracking process, problems with fracking, regulations (or lack  thereof), and fracking legislation. 

The program is open to the public.  Bring your questions and concerns and join us for an interesting and informative evening. 

Call Suzette Welch at 530 342-9214 if you need more information

 

Free Screening: Over Troubled Water

November 3, 2012 - Pagent Theater in Chico

Yahi will join with other local environmental groups — BEC, Friends of Butte Creek, Sacramento River Preservation Trust, Citizens Water Watch — to hold a free screening of the new documentary Over Troubled Water at the Pageant Theater on November 3, 2012, at 2:30 PM. You can watch the trailer at Restore the Delta’s Facebook page or Google “Over Troubled Water documentary trailer”.

This is a very important and timely documentary explaining the importance of the Sacramento Delta. Governor Brown and Ken Salazar just announced in July the $14 billion Delta tunnels to be built to send Sacramento water south. We need to educate all Californians on the effects of these planned water transfers so they can make a choice on the future of our water.  If you go to Sierra Club California (www.sierraclubcalifornia.org) you can read Senior Advocate Jim Metropulos’s response: “We don't need 19th century solutions to today's problems” in response to Governor Brown's proposal.

More Information:  http://motherlode.sierraclub.org/yahi/newsletter/Over_Troubled_Water.pdf

 

YAHI Holiday Potluck

December 14, 2012

The Yahi Holiday Party will be held Friday, December 14, 2012, at Valley Oaks Village, 1980 Wild Oak Lane, in Chico, CA.  It will be a potluck this year, starting at 6:00 PM.  Parking is limited, so please carpool if you can. 

If you plan on attending, please notify us by email, stating the number of people in your party and what you plan to bring.  Send email to booksontape@rocketmail.com.

After dinner entertainment will be club members talking about their favorite trips.  Call Suzette Welch at 530 342-9214 if you need more information

 

Phyllis Lindley: 1924-2012

Phyllis Lindley

1924-2012

A Celebration of Life will be held Sunday, August 19 at 10 am at Bear’s Lair, Chico Creek Nature Center, Lower Bidwell Park. Phyllis was an active participant in several environmental organizations, including Mount Lassen Chapter California Native Plant Society, Sierra Club, Altacal Audubon and Bidwell Park Watch.

After moving to Chico in 2000, Phyllis helped to maintain trails in Upper Park and started a recycling program for her retirement community at Sierra Sunrise. For many years she was newsletter editor for Bidwell Park Watch and docent at Chico Creek Nature Center, for which she was honored by the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission. She was a diligent membership chair for Mount Lassen Chapter and regularly assisted with the group’s events.

Phyllis was born April 5, 1924 in Oakland, CA to Cdr. Leo Lindley, USN and Marian Lindley. She attended UC Berkeley, serving as student body president in 1944 and graduating in 1945 with a BA in International Relations. In her mid-20’s she went to a High Sierra Camp in Yosemite, sparking a life-long interest in ecology. From then on every vacation she took was spent backpacking, generally in the Sierra. While living in New York in 1953, she joined the first East Coast chapter of the Sierra Club. Returning to the Bay Area, she became a naturalist for the Audubon Society, motivating her to earn a second BA in Wildlife Management. Her career with Audubon lasted for 17 years.

In the early 1970’s Phyllis and close friend Pat Cone purchased 20 acres surrounded by Mendocino National Forest land in the foothills west of Stonyford, where she lived for almost 30 years. They assisted in building their log cabin-sided house, named Amigeo, from trees harvested and cured on their land and also grew much of their food. Amigeo had abundant water from a spring and electricity generated from it by a Pelton wheel. During this time Phyllis tirelessly advocated for the establishment of the Snow Mountain Wilderness Area near Amigeo, by speaking at governmental hearings over many years, earning her an award from the Mother Lode Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Phyllis loved opera and the symphony. There was no television reception at Amigeo, but luckily she was able to hear radio broadcasts of the New York Metropolitan Opera. Her volunteer invasive plant weeding sessions at Bidwell Park never conflicted with Met broadcasts or North State Symphony performances.

Phyllis passed peacefully on June 28, 2012. She is survived by her sister Louise Hatch of Asheville, NC and 5 nieces and nephews.

The Yahi Newsletter printed a Member Profile (p. 4)  honoring Phyllis in Spring of 2002:  http://motherlode.sierraclub.org/yahi/newsletter/Archive/Spring2002.pdf

Read more about Phyllis's life at the California Native Plant Society web site:  http://mountlassen.cnps.org/

Phyllis's obituary was printed by the Chico ER:  http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicoer/

6th Annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival

For more info: www.buttecreek.org

Beyond Oil: Getting to Know the Campaign Webinar

Sierra Club activists and staff,

Please join the Beyond Oil Campaign team on July 19th from 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. ET (5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. PT) for the Beyond Oil: Getting to Know the Campaign Webinar! Some of you may be new to this campaign and issue; some of you may be long-time activists. We would like to share our team and plans with you, discuss opportunities to engage, and seek your input.

The Beyond Oil Campaign seeks a world where climate disruption is a fading threat, American soldiers are never again deployed to defend oil fields, and innovative green industries provide good jobs and supply 100% of our energy needs. Together, we'll fight in Washington and in local communities to create this world.

We will raise and defend strong fuel-efficiency and pollution standards, increase access to oil-free transportation choices, promote electric vehicles, move America's large fleets to fuel-efficient and electric vehicles, block tar sands and other dangerous oil projects, and revoke the oil industry's license to operate above the law and interfere with our transition to a clean energy future. Your involvement and leadership is critical. Please join this webinar to learn more and help plan this campaign's next steps.

Date: July 19th, 2012

Time: 8pm ET / 5pm PT

RSVP here.

Webinar Agenda:

Beyond Oil Campaign Presentation: (20 min)

· Critical Reasons to move Beyond Oil

· Real Solutions

· Sierra Club’s Campaign

Discussion: (40 min)

· Opportunities to Engage with Beyond Oil

· Q&A

· Wrap up & Next Steps

Once you’ve emailed us with your information, we will provide an accompanying PowerPoint and call-in information.

Best,

Michael Marx, Director, Beyond Oil Campaign

Darrell Clarke, Volunteer Co-Lead, Beyond Oil Campaign

Occupy our Forests: “Forests for the 99%, Not clearcutting for the 1%”

Ever wonder what happened to all the forests? Or asked yourself where have all the spotted owls gone?

California’s forests sustain thousands of jobs in the recreation and sustainable logging industries- but not if they are clearcut. For many years, private lands logging has been in the news and more people have become aware of the environmental impact of celarcutting. Sometimes the impacts are beneficial for instance; when fire and fuels are reduced or replenishment is necessary, yet sometimes private lands logging leads to mudslides, flooding, property damage, increased fire risk and loss of wildlife habitat.

Want to know how you can be involved in curtailing some of the abuses of
clearcutting?

Become a Timber Harvest Plan Tracker! Learn to use resources to find out where Timber Harvest Plans (THPs) are planned near your neighborhood. Learn about THPs and where to go, to visit private lands logging operations, so you can gather photos and help monitor impacts of clearcutting.

BEC and the Yahi Group of the Sierra Club are co-sponsoring a full day training with EPIC Industrial Forestry Reform Advocate, Rob DiPerna from Arcata on formal Timber Harvest Plan comments.

Please contact Skye at skyeli.peace.justice@gmail.com if you are interested in joining fellow advocates in saving our forests! We will announce a date and time once we have a full class. Class is FREE and open to the public however, donations are being accepted for trainer’s meals and bus fare.

For more about clearcutting please visit
http://www.stopclearcuttingcalifornia.org/ and
for more information on becoming a Timber Harvest Tracker you can visit
http://www.thptrackingcenter.org/

Paradise Irrigation District

The Paradise Irrigation District Wants You!

Join us for a FREE Rain or Shine Tour

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Learn about ways to improve our forests health!

9:00 a.m.

Meet

at the Paradise Seventh Day Adventist Church - 5720 Academy Drive Paradise, CA

9:15 – 11:00 a.m. Space is limited please RSVP!

Bus Tour to the Paradise Lake Picnic Area for a discussion about Forest Management options for areas surrounding Paradise Lake and Magalia reservoir

11:15 a.m. - 12:00 noon

(Paradise Seventh Day Adventist Church)Presentation/Public comment
on details of the Forest Assessment
Please join us for a no-host lunch following the presentation to further discuss the project at Cozy Diner 6371 Skyway Paradise, CA.

For more information or to RSVP contact the Butte County RCD (530) 534-0112 x 122 or bc-rcd@carcd.org

www.buttecountyrcd.org

Wildflowers of Table Mountain, A Naturalist’s View

Co-authors, Albin Bills and Samantha Mackey, and illustrator Larry Jansen, have just finished their completely revised and expanded version of Wildflowers of Table Mountain, A Naturalist’s View, which is now in full color.

Albin Bills has interviews on KCHO with Nancy's Bookshelf and In a North State Garden scheduled for the week of February 20th.

This weekend, Feb 18th and 19th, 2012 In a North State Garden features The Wildflowers of Table Mountain, A Naturalist's Guide - 2nd Edition (Color), an interview with author Albin Bills. 

Read this week's feature article at: http://jewellgarden.com/blog/.

Listen to the segment on Northstate Public Radio (KCHO 91.7 FM in Chico and KFPR 88.9 FM in Redding), Saturday at 7:34 am PST and again Sunday at 8:34 am PST. For additional fm translators: www.kcho.org/_main/translators.asp.

Don't receive the radio stations? Listen at the time of broadcast via live stream from your computer by following the link at www.jewellgarden.com. (Recorded interviews are archived as podcasts to jewellgarden.com a few weeks after the original air date.

Wildflowers of Table Mountain is available at Lyons Books in Chico.  Albin Bills will hold a book signing event at Lyon Books at 7PM on Thursday February 23 in Chico.

The book is also available for purchase through The Herbarium at Chico State University.  Print Order form: 
www.motherlode.sierraclub.org/yahi/newsletter/Wildflowers_of_Table_Mountain.pdf

Special Showing of “The Big Year”

Special Showing of “The Big Year”
* * * ONE WEEKEND ONLY * * *
 
Two special screenings of the film, The Big Year, are being offered at the Pageant Theater in Chico on Saturday, January 21 at 1:00 pm and Sunday, January 22 at 5:00 pm as a prelude to the upcoming Snow Goose Festival. This comedy stars Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson who portray friendly rivals dedicating a year of their lives to following their dream of seeing as many species of birds as possible in one calendar year. 
 
The Snow Goose Festival, a four-day event that celebrates the local and migratory waterfowl of the Northern Sacramento Valley, offers over 80 field trips, workshops and activities for birding and nature enthusiasts young and old. Special Guest and Keynote Speaker for the Festival, Greg Miller, is one of the famed birders featured in the book, The Big Yearby Mark Obmascik, and portrayed by Jack Black in the film.
 
Tickets are $5 at the door only. The Pageant Theater is located at 351 E. 6th Street in Chico. Please visit www.snowgoosefestival.org for more details or call the Snow Goose Festival office at (530) 345-1865.

Pacific Flyway Art Exhibit & Welcome Reception

Art & Nature Enthusiasts Invited to Attend
Uptown / Downtown Pacific Flyway Art Exhibit & Welcome Reception
 
January 12, 2012. Chico, CA.  The public is invited to the exciting Uptown/Downtown Pacific Flyway Art Exhibit and Welcome Reception on Friday, January 27, 2012 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. This special evening is one of the featured events of the Snow Goose Festival and offers admirers of art and nature a chance to view artwork featuring wildlife and habitat along the Pacific Flyway. Works of 45 artists in a variety of media, including sculpture, clay, oils, watercolor, acrylics, mixed media, glass and photography will be shown and offered for sale.
 
The Uptown/Downtown Exhibit and Reception is housed at two Chico galleries: Avenue 9 Gallery, located at 180 E. 9thAve. and Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., Suite 6. The Friday evening reception offers a chance to mix and mingle, admire art, meet the artists, and enjoy live music and refreshments. Leave your car behind and enjoy the courtesy trolley rides between the galleries every half hour.
Pre-registration admission is $10/adult, $5/youth. At the door, $5 additional.
 
Running January 26-29, the Snow Goose Festival, a four-day event that celebrates the local and migratory waterfowl of the Northern Sacramento Valley, offers over 80 field trips, workshops and activities for birding and nature enthusiasts young and old. Register for the Reception and other Festival events online at snowgoosefestival.org or call (530) 345-1865.

Kathleen Huber
Administration Assistant
Snow Goose Festival