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SCCA Honors Dr. Jane Nielson, Scientist & Environmental Champion
December 16, 2021
SCCA is pleased to honor the outstanding record of recent SCCA Board member Dr. Jane Nielson Ph.D geologist, Jane impressively served on the SCCA Board for seven years. She still loves Sonoma County, but is relocating to Portland to be near family Rigorous Scientist Jane brings scientific integrity and logical consistency to all her projects. She… Read more »
SCCA Award – When Wildfire Comes, Fire Safe Roads Are Vital!
December 15, 2021
SCCA is pleased to award Marylee Guinon the Leadership & Sustainability Award for her tireless work on fire safe roads. The Threat The State Board of Forestry’s Fire Safe Regulations have long required safe concurrent firefighter access and civilian evacuation for all new development in the fire-prone Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). These Regulations require minimum… Read more »
Tell the Planning Commission to Protect Our Working Woodlands
October 27, 2021
Please join us at the November 4th Planning Commission Meeting to demand stronger protection against Oak and Forest Land conversion in the county. Scientists agree, protecting existing forests is the best low-cost approach for immediately sequestering large amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, ultimately reducing our adverse impacts on the climate. In Sonoma County, thousands… Read more »
SCCA’s Letter to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission
October 20, 2021
Dear Commissioners, Thank you for your continued dedication to California and for the hours of testimony and input you have collated and guided over the past year. As you continue to look beyond visualizations and begin to craft, tweak, and adopt final boundaries for California’s state representatives, Sonoma County Conservation Action strongly urges you to… Read more »
It’s up to all of us to #StopTheRepublicanRecall and stand with Governor Gavin Newsom
August 27, 2021
SCCA joins the Sonoma County Democratic Party, Wine Country Young Democrats, North Bay Labor Council, President Joe Biden and many, many others in endorsing a ‘No’ on the upcoming Gavin Newsom recall. The recall is powered by a partisan, Republican coalition of national Republicans, anti-vaxxers, QAnon conspiracy theorists, anti-immigrant activists and Trump supporters. They want to overturn Governor Newsom’s election,… Read more »