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National Parks Action Hour, Stopping Line 5, and Keeping Our Forests Wild
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News From Our Board of Directors
Last week, the volunteer-elected Sierra Club Board of Directors unanimously ratified its July 10 decision to terminate Executive Director Ben Jealous's employment. This was not a decision
we took lightly, but it was a necessary one.
Loren Blackford is the acting executive director. She has previously been the interim executive director and served on and chaired the Sierra Club and Sierra Club Foundation boards,
bringing a deep familiarity with our strategy, our teams, and the communities we serve.
The board will meet again in September to chart this leadership transition, led by our board president, Patrick Murphy.
Our organization's work is needed now more than ever -- the threats to the climate, environment, our communities, and democracy have never been greater. Thankfully, we have been built
for this for more than 130 years. With 64 chapters and millions of members and supporters across the country, the Sierra Club's focus remains on our mission to explore, enjoy, and protect
this precious planet.
We are the most enduring and influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States because of people like you -- everyday advocates, volunteers, and community members.
YOU are the Sierra Club.
Thank you for being with us in this moment of renewal. We look forward to continuing our work together.
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Keeping Our National Forests Wild <http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=47b9f2b45757c5e9c3c34439f7eeee2191326a56543c149676bde4aa4814ea351143e10b86dbea9adda456176533e60615aa9abbd79e65cc95a9b737622f4
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Earlier this year, tens of thousands of us made calls and wrote letters to Congress asking them not to auction off more than a million acres of our public lands as part of Trump's billionaire
budget bill… and they listened! Now we need to keep up the momentum to protect our public lands. The Trump administration wants to eliminate a popular policy -- the Roadless Area Conservation
Rule -- that has protected nearly 60 million acres of our national forests. Once these untouched areas are gone, we can't get them back.
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Yosemite National Park. | Photo by Karl Magnuson
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As summer draws to a close, the strain on our national parks is impossible to ignore. From Trump's budget cuts that left rangers stretched thin to ongoing attempts to erase history and
hand over public lands to polluters, the threats are mounting. For over a century, our parks have offered spaces for connecting with nature and our history -- but protecting them has
never been more urgent. That's why, as we mark the 109th birthday of the National Park Service, we're coming together to thank rangers for their tireless work and take action to protect
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Mackinac Bridge in Michigan. | Photo by E. Engler
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Our advocacy is working! Thanks to the recent work of grassroots advocates like you, Michigan is opening a special comment period to invite public input on the expansion of Line 5, tunneling
under the Great Lakes. Anyone who cares about climate, clean water, or local communities is invited to speak up, no matter where you live. The Trump administration and oil giant Enbridge
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We have all seen the power social media has had in recent years to sway what people believe and how they choose to act -- in both powerful and dangerous ways. Together, we can harness
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The Sierra Club is standing up to the Trump administration in court and winning. We sued to stop DOGE's mass firings that threatened public lands and wildlife, defended New York City’s
congestion pricing program from unlawful dismantling, and challenged Trump's rollback of vital ocean protections.
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Everglades National Park, Florida. | Photo by Daniel Kraft
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Trump's new detention center in the Everglades, hastily built in little more than a week, could house as many as 4,000 people in tents and rows of trailers. As hurricane season approaches,
climate-fueled disasters also pose a grave risk to the people detained and the military members stationed in such a vulnerable, flood-prone area. Locking up human beings -- many of
whom are fleeing violence, poverty, and oppression -- to score political points while destroying vulnerable ecosystems is morally indefensible.
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From Sierra Magazine
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The Trump administration, Congress, and the federal courts are launching an all-out assault on this environmental law, often described as one of the nation's bedrock conservation laws.
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With the summer season still in high gear, cracks are starting to show as a result of massive budget and staffing cuts to the National Park Service. Less signage, closed visitor centers,
and less trail maintenance are all signs of an organization in distress. Still, experts warn that the true toll may take years to show.
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