Our Chapter's Issues

On October 10, 2014 President Obama designated some 350,000 acres of the Angeles National Forest in Southern California as the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, the 13th national monument of his presidency. The monument designation follows a 14-year campaign by San Gabriel Mountains Forever, a coalition of environmental and community groups, including the Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club and Friends of the River. Under a national monument designation, the Forest Service would give priority to managing the safety of visitors, protecting natural resources and installing improvements, including new parking areas, restrooms, signs, educational kiosks and trails.

The North Etiwanda Preserve in the foothills above Rancho Cucamonga is a critical habitat area set aside as mitigation for the 210 Freeway project.

Proper management of this area is crucial, but we are concerned that the Preserve is being treated more as a local recreational resource than as rare habitat.  

For many years, the Baldy Mesa area has been an almost impossible problem for the Forest Service to manage responsibily.   Illegal and destructive OHV recreation there has repeatedly ignored past USFS attempts to minimize the damage caused by riders "wreckreating" off the designated trails in the area.    The Forest Service has now apparently given up trying to protect and defend the area from the illegal OHV community, and have proposed expanding the OHV trail system there instead.   

Members of the San Gorgonio Chapter of the Sierra Club have long appreciated the very special qualities of our local mountains. An unusual transverse mountain range of steep slopes running East/West, it boasts a wide variety of ecological habitats and climes varying from low, hot desert valleys to beautiful high-elevation conifer forests. "Our" mountains support an abundance of species, and boast one of the more biologically diverse National Forests in the nation.

The illegal and irresponsible use of Off-Road Vehicles (ORV’s) is a major conservation concern for the San Gorgonio Chapter.  Our concerns range from the damage done to wild habitat, the direct killing of critters, and loss of peace and quite for all of humans. 

Did you know that Riverside County is in the process of revising their General Plan?

This important document will guide development in the County for many years.
Roads, housing, habitats.  It's all there. 

And now, its important Environmental Review documents have just been released.  

The North Etiwanda Preserve in the foothills above Rancho Cucamonga is a critical habitat area set aside as mitigation for the 210 Freeway project.

Proper management of this area is crucial, but we are concerned that the Preserve is being treated more as a local recreational resource than as rare habitat.  

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED to stop an unhealthy warehouse district!

Members of the San Gorgonio Chapter of the Sierra Club have long appreciated the very special qualities of our local mountains. An unusual transverse mountain range of steep slopes running East/West, it boasts a wide variety of ecological habitats and climes varying from low, hot desert valleys to beautiful high-elevation conifer forests. "Our" mountains support an abundance of species, and boast one of the more biologically diverse National Forests in the nation.

Dependence on fossil fuels is causing global warming, the depletion of energy resources, and severe damage to human health and the environment. So we must  wean ourselves from oil, coal, and other fossil fuels and chart a path to a sustainable energy future, a course marked by energy conservation, energy efficiency, and maximum use of renewable energy.

Did you know that Riverside County is in the process of revising their General Plan?

This important document will guide development in the County for many years.
Roads, housing, habitats.  It's all there. 

And now, its important Environmental Review documents have just been released.  

The North Etiwanda Preserve in the foothills above Rancho Cucamonga is a critical habitat area set aside as mitigation for the 210 Freeway project.

Proper management of this area is crucial, but we are concerned that the Preserve is being treated more as a local recreational resource than as rare habitat.  

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED to stop an unhealthy warehouse district!

Members of the San Gorgonio Chapter of the Sierra Club have long appreciated the very special qualities of our local mountains. An unusual transverse mountain range of steep slopes running East/West, it boasts a wide variety of ecological habitats and climes varying from low, hot desert valleys to beautiful high-elevation conifer forests. "Our" mountains support an abundance of species, and boast one of the more biologically diverse National Forests in the nation.

Dependence on fossil fuels is causing global warming, the depletion of energy resources, and severe damage to human health and the environment. So we must  wean ourselves from oil, coal, and other fossil fuels and chart a path to a sustainable energy future, a course marked by energy conservation, energy efficiency, and maximum use of renewable energy.

For many years, the Baldy Mesa area has been an almost impossible problem for the Forest Service to manage responsibily.   Illegal and destructive OHV recreation there has repeatedly ignored past USFS attempts to minimize the damage caused by riders "wreckreating" off the designated trails in the area.    The Forest Service has now apparently given up trying to protect and defend the area from the illegal OHV community, and have proposed expanding the OHV trail system there instead.   

Members of the San Gorgonio Chapter of the Sierra Club have long appreciated the very special qualities of our local mountains. An unusual transverse mountain range of steep slopes running East/West, it boasts a wide variety of ecological habitats and climes varying from low, hot desert valleys to beautiful high-elevation conifer forests. "Our" mountains support an abundance of species, and boast one of the more biologically diverse National Forests in the nation.

The illegal and irresponsible use of Off-Road Vehicles (ORV’s) is a major conservation concern for the San Gorgonio Chapter.  Our concerns range from the damage done to wild habitat, the direct killing of critters, and loss of peace and quite for all of humans. 

Members of the San Gorgonio Chapter of the Sierra Club have long appreciated the very special qualities of our local mountains. An unusual transverse mountain range of steep slopes running East/West, it boasts a wide variety of ecological habitats and climes varying from low, hot desert valleys to beautiful high-elevation conifer forests. "Our" mountains support an abundance of species, and boast one of the more biologically diverse National Forests in the nation.

The illegal and irresponsible use of Off-Road Vehicles (ORV’s) is a major conservation concern for the San Gorgonio Chapter.  Our concerns range from the damage done to wild habitat, the direct killing of critters, and loss of peace and quite for all of humans. 

Dependence on fossil fuels is causing global warming, the depletion of energy resources, and severe damage to human health and the environment. So we must  wean ourselves from oil, coal, and other fossil fuels and chart a path to a sustainable energy future, a course marked by energy conservation, energy efficiency, and maximum use of renewable energy.

Dependence on fossil fuels is causing global warming, the depletion of energy resources, and severe damage to human health and the environment. So we must  wean ourselves from oil, coal, and other fossil fuels and chart a path to a sustainable energy future, a course marked by energy conservation, energy efficiency, and maximum use of renewable energy.