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Reports on the accomplishments of the Sierra Club and other environmental activists in preserving wildlands in the United States as of March 1, 2001. Management plan for the Giant Sequoia National Monument; Plan of the United States Forest Service for Chugach and Tongass National Forests; Preservation of Hanford Reach National Monument.

Reports on the Toxic 12 Campaign conducted by the North Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, which aims to highlight the poor environmental records of legislators from towns across Minnesota. Details of the campaign; Impact of the campaign on legislators.

Presents an update on the Sierra Club as of January 2002. Activities for young students from Ashland at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Recipients of several awards from the Sierra Club; Donation given by the cast of the sitcom 'The Brady Bunch' to the Sierra Club Foundation and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

Reports on the activities of the environmentalist group Sierra Club at the United States Congress in Washington, D.C. as of January 2001. Description of a typical day for its public-lands lobbyists; Information on position papers that are distributed to the offices of senators; Accomplishments of lobbyists; Importance of the people's support on the environmental causes of the club.

Discusses the implications of the 2000 general election on environmental protection in the United States (U.S.). Information on the winners in the U.S. House of Representatives; Updates on elected candidates for the Senate; Agenda of the Sierra Club; Information on the environmental positions of presidential candidates.

Focuses on the opposition of the Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra Club and activist Andy Selters to the approval for the Snowcreek Golf Course plan in Sierra Nevada.

Highlights the initiative of the Sierra Club's legal staff in improving the use of litigation as a tool to advance the Club's national priority campaigns in the United States. Mission of the Sierra Club; Comments from Ken Midkiff, the Club's Clean Water Campaign coordinator; Success of the Hawaii Chapter in the case it filed against the expansion of Kahului Airport.

Reports that members of the Sierra Club in the Iowa City Area Group are measuring tree trunks to help preserve and maintain their natural heritage. Description of trees that are recorded; Purpose intended for the gathered information.

Presents articles dealing with environmental protection in the United States being undertaken by Sierra Club members. Actions of activists to prevent construction of highway along Great Salt Lake, Utah; Efforts of the National Riffle Association and the Sierra Club to protect the Katy Prairie wetlands in Texas.

Focuses on the award given to conservationist David Brower, former executive director of the Sierra Club. Achievements of Brower; Comments from Brower.

The article reports that fair-trade parties of the Sierra Club are giving the Tupperware model a sustainable twist by offering edible, wearable, and decorative products that support workers and environmental initiatives in developing countries. Members can supply educational pamphlets, a few donated samples, catalogs to order from, and fair-trade coffee and sweets to entice guests.

The article reports on the formation of a new Puerto Rico chapter of the organization Sierra Club in El Yunque, the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. Forest Service system. Local activists cheered the decision. Other groups have already joined the chapter in its campaign against two mega-resorts planned by Marriott International and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. The fight against development in the ecological corridor has brought together community leaders, businesspeople, church folks, fishermen, and tree huggers.

The article reports that Aurelia Harwood, soon to be the first female president of the Sierra Club, a U.S. based organization related to environmental protection, has revealed her future plans. She broke a bottle of ginger ale on the doorway of a one-room stone cabin, and pronounced that she christens the Shasta Alpine Lodge and dedicate it to all lovers of the great out-of-doors. Now owned by the Sierra Club Foundation, the building was recently refurbished with a new roof and door made of recycled and reclaimed materials. Though it is used both as a rest stop for dayhikers, who can peruse its small library or take a load off at the table and benches inside and as a base for climbers, no one actually sleeps at the "lodge."

Features Jennifer Ferenstein, president of the environmental group, Sierra Club. Ferenstein's goal; Example of the type of coalition-building she hopes to promote.

Describes the efforts of former United States soldier Tom Arnold to teach Sierra Club members how to document damage from off-road vehicles (ORV) in Montana. Survey of Gallatin National Forest; Irresponsible use of ORV; Environmental effects of ORV.

Provides information on the training program being offered by the environmental group Sierra Club.

Offers a look at the lives of several Sierra Club leaders who have been elected to public office as activists and politicians. William Holmes, former Iowa Chapter Chair; Steve Holmes, Hawaii Chapter Conservation Chair; Brett Hulsey, Senior Midwest Representative.

Reports on the campaign of Sierra Club member Lori Saldana against the plan of the automobile company Mitsubishi to build a salt-extraction facility at the Vizcaino Reserve in Mexico. Encounter of Saldana with Pacific gray whales; Facts on the campaign.

Highlights the opposition of the Sierra Club's Maui Group to the proposal of building a 30-home luxury subdivision on the dunes fronting the Baldwin Beach by A&B developing company.

Focuses on the action taken by organic farmers Chris and Christy Korrow and the Sierra Club's Cumberland Chapter in passing a county ordinance on the required number of chicken houses at Cagle's-Keystone in Southern Appalachia. Information on the Tours de Stench trip.

Focuses on the lobbying efforts of the Sierra Club in Cape Cod Massachusetts to help transfer the control of an undeveloped portion of Shawme-Crowell State Forest from the military to state environment officials. Management plans for the area; Environmental conditions governing military training in the area.

Deals with the opposition of Sierra Club members on luxury-home and golf-course development at Humbug Marsh in Michigan. Efforts of the Department of Environmental Quality in the state.

Focuses on the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) implementation of the Operation Rio Grande which could affect endangered ocelot and jaguarundi, two nocturnal cats that inhabit south Texas' lower Rio Grande Valley. What the proposal calls for; Action taken by the Sierra Club to protect the region and its Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge from the operation.

Reports on the crusade of Terry Harris, a law student and member of the Sierra Club's Environmental Justice Committee, in saving the small working-class in a community in Baltimore, Maryland. What embarrassed the city government into taking action.

Focuses on the `Bayoukeepers,' a program that combines canoeing with chemistry founded by Louisiana Sierra Club member Beverly Bauer. Details on the program.

Reports that Oliver Bernstein, a Florida high school senior, has helped the Sierra Club crusade against a proposed commercial airport at the site of the former Homestead Air Force Base. Comments from Bernstein; Decision of the local court in Miami with regards to the issue.

Reports on the denim petition of the Arizona Sierra Club to the United States Forest Service on March 1999. Purpose of the petition; Comments from Sandy Bahr of the club's Grand Canyon Chapter on the value of the San Francisco Peaks.