THE ROADRUNNER
February, 2001
Volume 49 Number 2
A Bi-monthly Publication
of The Kern-Kaweah Chapter Of The Sierra Club
Box 3357, Bakersfield, CA 93385-3357
(661) 323-5569
E-mail: kern-kaweah.chapter@sierraclub.org
***Thanks, thanks and thanks again.***
... to Sasha and Andy Honig for their most loyal and distinguished service to the Kern-Kaweah Chapter. This couple has much to be proud of and are to be honored for all they have done to keep us informed and bring us together by words One of several letters of appreciation follows:
To my colleagues who read the "Roadrunner," I write this on behalf of the many people who have read and benefitted from the "Roadrunner" over the years. Before I became active in the Club and knew the leaders here in Ridgecrest, the "Roadrunner" was a comforting reminder that, even in remote places, no environmentalist in our chapter is really alone. It has always demonstrated civility and quality in a world where vehicles with rude anti-enviro bumper stickers are not hard to find. For all this and their tireless, fine work, I thank retiring editors Sasha and Andy Honig for making our lives better for well over twenty years. The "Roadrunner" has always been there because they have always been there. I know you join with me in saying thank you to them.
Stan and Jeanie Hayes
THE COMING UP CALENDAR
MARK YOUR CALENDARS. Details later:
Apr 21 (Sat) Annual Awards Banquet -Bakersfield
July 18-22 (Wed/Sat) National Sierra Club Celebration of Sequoia Monument and more. Hikes, mtgs. open to all club members.
Every Thursday Evening Conditioning Hike. 4-5 miles in northeast Bakersfield area. Meet at 7 pm, Chevron Station (corner of Hwys 178, 184.) Call Eva/Gordon Nipp (661) 872-2432 or Larry Wailes (661) 861-1186 for details.
Feb 3 (Sat). Chap.Ex-Com. Beale Library. Bksf. 12 noon (See Chair notes, pg 2)
Feb 7 (Wed) Bakersfield Drop-in Conservation Dinner with a few Sierra Club & Audubon friends at The Garden Spot, 3320 Truxtun Ave. (NW corner of Truxtun and Oak). All you can eat for about $7. Begins at 6:00 p.m, you may arrive later, closes at 8. Opportunity for anyone, including non-hikers and currently inactive members, to talk about conservation. Leaders Lorraine/Arthur Unger (661) 323-5569
Feb 10 (Sat) Wonderland of Rocks Day Hike: Fine introduction to Joshua Tree National Park. Visit great pictograph sites and spectacular rock formations Limited to first fifteen callers who call after Jan. 28th Bring food and water for 4 hours hiking.Cold weather expected: Al/Ann Murdy (760) 366-2932
Feb 10/11(Sat/Sun/)WindWolves Preserve Workday. Call (661) 858-1115 for details.
Feb 17-19 (Sat-Mon) Anza Borrego Desert State Park Sampler: Car camp Moderate x-country day hiking, up to 9 miles/day. Bring camping equipment; food, water for three days. Potluck dinner Sat. night. 2WD O.K.; high clearance vehicle preferable. Send self addressed stamped envelope with h & w phone to Leader: Nick Ervin, 4781 Mt. St. Helens Dr., San Diego, CA 92117 (858) 565-9582. No dogs permitted
Feb 19 (Mon) Owens Peak Grp meeting.Slides of western Mediterranean. Meet Maturango Museum, 100 E. Las Flores, Ridgecrest.7:30 p.m.Details? Dennis at (760) 375-7967 or Jeanie at (760) 375-8973
Feb 24 (Sat) Desert Hike. Dennis Burge (760) 375-7967 for further info.
Feb 24 (Sat) Mountain Hike.Frazier Park /Pine Mtn area. Details: Call (661) 242-0423
Mar 3 (Sat) Last Chance Canyon@Redrock Canyon State Park. 4 wh.drive trip. Meet at the BLM office, 300 S. Richmond, Ridgecrest, 9 a.m. Bring water and lunch. Call Steve (760) 375-2430 or Dolph (760) 446-3104.
Mar 3/4 (Sat/Sun) CNRCC. SLO State Mtg on conservation issues. Call Unger (661) 323-5569 Mar 10 (Sat) Chap.Ex-Com Hanford. (See Chair's Notes for details)
Mar 17 (Sat) Contact Wash Day Hike - Joshua Tree NP: Five-hour hike down a wash; steep but spectacular. Boots, protective clothing water and munchies req/ Limit: 10 people. Call no sooner than two weeks before the hike date: leaders Al/Ann Murdy (760) 366-2932.
Mar. 19th (Mon) Owens Peak GRP Meeting Speaker? Details: see Feb.19th
Mar 21 (Wed) Bakersfield Drop-in conservation dinner See Feb. 7th for details.
Mar 24 (Sat) Mountain Hike. Frazier Park/Pine Mtn Area. Details: (661)242-0423
KERN COUNTY HABITAT CONSERVATION PLAN COMING UP FOR REVIEW
MUCH AT STAKE
Habitat conservation plans (HCP) are essentially legal contracts between the government and landowners to allow the killing or disturbing of endangered species in exchange for negotiated levels of mitigation.Thus the Ex-Com of the Kern-Kaweah Chapter is very concerned about the proposed Kern County Valley Floor Habitat Conservation Plan. It will soon be released for public consideration with much of Kern County's magnificent wildlife heritage at stake.
The sheer size of the Plan has certainly been enough to get our attention. It will cover about 2 million acres of Kern on the valley floor up to 2,000 feet in the foothills and thirty-two species.
After twelve years of meetings, no coherent conservation-based objectives have been developed. Instead there is page after page of rhetoric regarding the need for protection to be given to developers from the Endangered Species Act's regulations.
Another troubling component of the Valley Floor HCP is that the whole cost will be born by the taxpayer, which is not true of the Metropolitan Bakersfield Habitat Conservation Plan.
Moreover, we question the adequacy of the baseline information used to design protection for endangered species. Land has been designated into zones without knowing the biological values or identifying future impacts. The zones will determine the level of mitigation required.This is a very critical point because the proposed Kern County Valley Floor HCP would allow 100 percent of endangered species populations in the permit area to be eliminated.
Because of the immense scope of this document, the Ex-Com has asked the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity to advise us on the legal and biological ramifications of the proposed agreement. A third draft is due to be released soon. If you are interested in providing input or need more information, contact Arthur Unger (661-323-5569) or Mary Griffin (661-871-7304.)
Mary Griffin
FROM THE CHAIR
It's a daunting task to fill the shoes of Glenn Shellcross, our outgoing Chapter chair. He's done a yeoman's work on the ExCom, which he characterizes as "trying to push a string". We hope that as Glenn steps into the vice-chair position he'll have the time needed to launch our new Bakersfield Group.
* Invitation to ExCom Members are welcome at all Sierra Club functions and that includes meetings of the chapter Executive Committee or ExCom in Clubspeak. The chapter ExCom next meets Saturday, February 3rd at the Beale Library on Truxtun Ave. in Bakersfield. Be forewarned, these meetings vary from tedious to testy and last from noon to about 4:00 pm. But they are a good opportunity to see the range of activities your Club tackles. We usually meet for lunch beforehand at the Sequoia Sandwich shop on 18th & L. For a change of venue, the following ExCom meeting will be Saturday March 10th in Hanford. Those leaving from Bakersfield are encouraged to take the 9:45 am train (#713). We'll return on the 2:38 pm southbound (#714). Round trip tickets are $30 with a $3 discount for seniors or AAA members. Our intent is to find a suitable location within walking distance of the Hanford trains station. At this time, the location isn't firm. Please check with an ExCom member before departing. Buy your tickets in advance by logging onto http://reservations. amtrak.com/ (there's usually a long line at the ticket counter just before the train departs) .
* Your Vote Counts You'll be soon be receiving a Club ballot for the election of officers at the national level. There will also be two propositions on the ballot. The propositions are there because they are important, and because they are important, they are also controversial. One seeks to ban grazing on public lands. The other seeks to include the issue of un-controlled population growth in the Club's anti-sprawl campaign. There are good arguments on both sides. Those who vote, decide. The Sierra Club is the nation's largest democratically organized environmental group. But it only works when members vote. As seen in the recent presidential election, your vote does matter. And unlike some Florida precincts, the Sierra Club does count all votes.
* Round of Visits As a newcomer to the chair, I plan to visit each of the groups in the chapter during the following weeks. I hope to reacquaint myself with those of you I met previously when I was treasurer and I am looking forward to introducing myself to those of you I've yet to meet.
* A Year of Stunning Successes It's been a year of stunning achievements, beginning with the nation's newest National Monument in Sequoia National Forest in our own backyard. Just recently President Clinton issued an executive order protecting nearly 60 million more acres of our National Forests from logging and road building. Now it's up to us to insure that our new President becomes the "Environmental President" he promised to be.
Paul Gipe
How About It?
Are you willing to step up to the plate and play a part in this process of protecting our environment? For various reasons, some can do more than others but WE ALL CAN DO SOMETHING. Just send an email or write a note to this publication and your offer to help will be passed on to those who need it. Please do it now. jmal@frazmtn.com or PO Box GG, Frazier Park, CA 93222.
JOBS AVAILABLE!
variety of tasks, hours.satisfaction: great (and only) pay
Make telephone calls Write letters
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Speak at public meetings
Be a watch dog of city , county officials
Sign up for "The Planet" and learn still more about what you can do to affect state and national politics.
Read govt documents in order to comment.
Chapter Backing Vital Force in Environmental Victory
Local volunteers did it!
A proposal, titled Lake Isabella One, was made by a developer to construct a shopping center in the historically designated shallow groundwater open-space in the Lake Isabella area. The Kern County Planning Department documents were issued as a Negative Declaration (no environmental impact report required) AND a proposed amendment to the Kern County General Plan would have allowed almost automatic approval for all projects proposed for shallow groundwater areas in all of Kern County.
Despite public opposition, on December 14, 1999, the Kern County Board of Supervisors approved this proposal. The Kerncrest Audubon Society joined by Kern Kaweah Chapter filed a lawsuit to stop these approvals that were deemed and ultimately conceded to be violating CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act). The winning points made by Kern Kaweah Chapter and Audubon included the following:
FIRST: The County adopted a Negative Declaration (no environmental impact review is required).for the Project. Under CEQA law, an agency must prepare an EIR if there is substantial evidence in the record that the Project may have significant adverse impacts. The record before the County contained that "substantial evidence" with potential substantial impact on natural resources, including, but not limited to groundwater, soils, wetlands, and traffic impacts. The County abused its discretion under CEQA law in approving the Project.
SECOND: In approving the proposed General Plan Amendment as being exempt from CEQA, Kern County relied upon the so-called "common sense exemption," which allows government agencies to exercise discretion in making decisions in what could be called gray areas of the law. The County had not demonstrated that the exemption applied. Thus, the move to change the regulations applying to land use throughout the county through one individual proposal was decisively ruled out.
THIRD: Under CEQA, a project is defined as the "whole of an action." A total undertaking made up of individual projects or phases should be analyzed in a single Environmental Impact Report (EIR). Accordingly, an agency should not split a single project into segments. The Lake Isabella One Project and the General Plan Amendment were not separate projects. Rather, they were parts of the "whole of an action." The General Plan Amendment, which would have automatically allowed all shallow ground water areas to be built upon, was necessary for and an integral part of the Project. Without it, the Project would not have been permitted. The County violated the law in its handling of the General Plan Amendment and the Isabella One Project by treating them as separate projects under CEQA .
On 23 June, 2000, approximately six months later, the Superior Court of The State of California, County of Kern, issued a stipulated judgement which agreed with the contentions of Audubon and Sierra Club and which declared "null and void and of no force and effect whatsoever" the Kern County Board of Supervisors approvals of the Lake Isabella One development project and the General Plan Amendment that would have allowed development in ALL shallow groundwater areas in Kern County.
This lawsuit against the environmental interpretations of CEQA by Land Planning and the Kern County Board of Supervisors was won but this success could not have been achieved without making the move of filing a lawsuit, which always runs the risk of not winning.
The expenditure of time, effort, persistence and expertise of our local volunteers, Ara Marderosian, Charlene Little, Debra Dishington and Art and Lorraine Unger, who were backed up by national Sierra Club lawyers and an experienced environmental attorney, were the most essential ingredients that made success possible in this case. We are truly indebted to them all for their efforts.
THE PLANET
IT can help us save IT!
It's full of great info! It introduces you to others of like mind! It gives you insights into how to get the things done that you would like to have happen!
No it's not Heloise or Martha Stewart! It's your Sierra Club's publication for activists titled "The Planet" and it is designed to give folks the know-how to work for such goals as protection of riparian areas and monument designations and against such negatives as grazing on the national forests and urban sprawl. And it is free. Free as far as dollars and cents go! However, and this is something everyone can do, you are asked to take some action to support the causes you care about. Write a letter! Make a telephone call! Join a group at a hearing! Just go on as far as you can in helping out!
Robert Kennedy, Jr. in an interview on KCET said to a group of students something like this: You know we haven't got the money that big corporations have but we have the people. When they speak out in numbers they cannot be ignored.
Sign up: Just e-mail planet@sierraclub.org or write to Sierra Club Activist Desk, 85 Second Street, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105.
PS Another bonus. If you sign up for the Planet you may see some of our Chapter folks in the pics like those two that appear in the January/February issue.
Updates - Chapter Area Concerns
Valley Oaks/Canal: Have injunction to stop lining of natural canal. Would require removing over 200 old oaks located on private property.
North East Bakersfield Development: Supporting "Preserve the Bluffs" group, working to preserve open space, walking trails, bluffs.
Dairies: Discussion to allow smaller size dairies to be given permits by right. Chapter stands for requiring all dairies go through EIR.
Windmills proposed in Jawbone Canyon area: Enron is working with property owners around four sides of BLM land. Chapter is requesting EIR.
Cadiz: Proposal to develop underground aquifer by private company as water storage site in desert. No action at this time as comment date is past.
Sequoia Monument: See article p. 6
Around the Chapter
Dennis Burge, Chair of Ridgecrest Group, attended Jan 6 meeting of Chap ExCom to relate his experiences at a National Sierra Club mtg. Conflict resolution within the Club was a major topic.
Sierra Club at the Bakersfield's Good Neighbor Festival. How would you stimulate environmental chatter among folks strolling around the Good Neighbor Festival at Martin Luther King Jr. Park? First, give children a chance to cut visors out of paper, color pictures of animals and the SC symbol on them and wear their visors around the fair. When the children come near to work on the visors, let Vicki Araujo and Lucy Clark talk to their parents in Spanish or English. Second, administer an environmental quiz inspired by Laura Stockton. Third, provide friendly faces like Susan Bowen's and Ruth Beach's to invite adults and children to look through magazines chapter members have donated. Lastly, let one and all chat with a face familiar to many of them, like Art Powell's.
Condor Group is making preparations for mapping possible wilderness areas in Mt. Pinos Dist of Los Padres NF. Please let us know about activities in your group
March Appeal Is On Its Way
Your Help Is Needed More Than Ever.
Try this! Save a quarter a day for the next forty days. That would be $10. Save a dollar a day for the next forty days and that would be $40. Save $2 a day for the next forty days and that would be $80. Why all this math?
We old timers know what March means in the Sierra Club. Time for a request for additional donations to the Chapter, which has been involved in more than ordinary activity and is anticipating even more for the next year(s) to come. More details in the letter you will be receiving soon. This early notice is just to encourage you to think ahead to do a little extra saving of quarters and dollars so that you will be ready to say Yes, I can do my part and send in a contribution this year because, need more be said except every quarter and dollar or more will help!
A look at books
Believing Cassandra:
An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World
by Alan Atkinson, reviewed by Paul Gipe
Having been disparaged as a "Cassandra," I was reluctant to read a book on the topic, especially one with a subtitle about optimism. "Oh no," I thought, "another enviro bashing book catering to Limbaugh ditto-heads."
Wrong. I should have had more faith in my publisher Chelsea Green. The small press has a long list of titles on environmental topics, including Donnella Meadows' Beyond the Limits, an update of her ground breaking The Limits to Growth. And it's Atkinson's link with Donnella Meadows that drives the book.
Those of us who came of age with the first Earth Day and those that didn't will find Atkinson's review of how Meadows, her then husband Dennis, and their team of graduate students at MIT rocked the establishment with the theme that the biological concept of limits may play a role in human affairs.
Atkinson describes how the shock waves caused by the Club of Rome's publication of Limits of Growth rippled through society, not only in the United States but abroad. (I recently found a marked-up copy in the home of our host family in Kassel, Germany.)
Limits became a best seller and launched the authors into an unexpected public fire storm. Conservative think tanks attacked the book mercilessly. Meadows and her colleagues were academics, actually early computer nerds, and were blind sided by the sophisticated campaign against their work as "fundamentally flawed". These attacks succeeded, and left much of the public with the mistaken impression that the Limits authors somehow got it wrong.
This is the thread that Atkinson picks up and it explains his choice of title: Believing Cassandra. For though the gods gave Cassandra a special gift, the ability to see the future, she was cursed that no one would believe her. As Atkinson points out, environmental critics miss the key to the story. Cassandra was able to see the future (the taking of Troy by the Greeks). She was right. And, argues Atkinson, so was Donnella Meadows and the authors of Limits to Growth. They got it right, but were cursed that few would believe them.
Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World, by Alan Atkinson, ISBN 1-890132-16-0, Chelsea Green Publishing. paper. 1999. $16.95.
VIDEO TO HELP SEQUOIA MONUMENT
CAMPAIGN FAR FROM OVER
READ ON!
The Sequoia Task Force has recently finished a 20 minute video tape about the Giant Sequoias and their management. It is titled "Ancient Race of Giants" and celebrates the beauty and majesty of the Sequoias as well as presenting information about how they can be preserved for future generations to enjoy.
Presently we are distributing the program to Sierra Club Chapters and Groups as well as individual members so that they can be informed about the magnificence of these trees and learn what needs to be done to protect them. The Forest Service has about two more years to complete a management plan for the Giant Sequoia National Monument and we hope to use the program to help us in our efforts to get the best management possible. The Task Force will be developing written information to use with the program as the management process proceeds and issues emerge. The program will be used for television as opportunities occur and is suitable for use in schools. We plan to develop materials for use by teachers and students so they can learn about these ancient Monarchs.
If you would like a copy of the program contact Joe Fontaine at 661 821 2055 or via e mail at fontaine@lightspeed.net. We are not selling the video but would appreciate a small contribution to help defray the cost of producing it.
Joe Fontaine
BACKGROUND ON SIERRA FORESTS
What is going on?
No legally valid management plan currently exists that will ensure the viability of the California spotted owl and the Pacific fisher in any Sierra Nevada national forests. Logging continues to reduce habitats of these species, cause a 7 to 10 percent annual decline in owl populations, and cause fisher populations to fail to produce young breeding females.
The Forest Service could release the Sierra Nevada Framework for Conservation Management Plan Amendment, for all Sierra Nevada national forests in January 2001. The Forest Service alleges that the plan will manage for viability of the forest species. But, when released, the language of the final plan may not protect the owl and fisher.
As an experimental project specified by Congress, the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act Pilot Project proposes to log through fisher and spotted owl old-growth habitat in three Sierra Nevada national forests.
Three environmental organizations, John Muir Project Of The Earth Island Institute, Tule River Conservancy, and Forest Conservation Council, filed for a Preliminary Injunction to stop logging that would further impact owl / fisher habitat and species populations in the Sierra Nevada national forests. This case is scheduled to be heard by the court on 26 February 2001. Stay tuned.
Ara Marderosian
MIDGEBUZZINGS
In my earliest school days we lived in Southern California. The hallmarks of that part of the world were oranges, sunshine, pepper trees, and year round gardens. But also in those days there was rain - lashings of it all winter long. I remember "rainy day session" schedules, indoor lunches, the smell of wet coats in the cloak room, and endless games of Simon Says. And I recall the necessary invention of indoor fun at home: the back of our overstuffed sofa became a horse; dining room chairs and a sheet made a fort, and the sill of a window was transformed into a battlefield for little tin soldiers. (Apologies to the dolls that were indulgences of my mother's fancies more than of mine.)
When the rain continued to oppressiveness, my mother and the mother of the little boy next door, in what now seems to me to have been an extraordinary concession to childish frustration, allowed us for a time to raise our windows and shout field commands for our little armies across two driveways and over the low fence that separated them. I don't recall the duration of those miniature skirmishes, but I do remember the absolute satisfaction in that form of play. One of my most cherished memories is of being eight years old and walking the short distance across our little town to a piano lesson on the first sunny day after a long wet winter. As I approached a stand of wild mustard growing by the road, I saw a single bee working a monopoly of blossoms, and was suddenly filled with the ecstasy known only to children. There was immensity in the light, in the sweet smell of sun-warmed earth, in the brightness of mustard and of a bee heavy with yellow pollen, and above all, in what was signaled by these delights: the end of rain!
California is dryer now, as are many parts of the world, which makes the memory of that moment particularly poignant. Through November and December this year, as day advanced upon day without the slightest hint of precipitation, we grew increasingly uneasy. Once again, even with all our sophisticated advances in technology, we felt helpless in the absence of that element upon which we depend, and from which we evolved.
At such times, in a complete reversal of my childhood resentment of plentiful rain, I resort to superstition in order to attract storms. This year I took the plastic tarp off my woodpile and left it exposed; I indulged in an expensive car washing job, then deliberately left the car outside; I made sure that my favorite pruning shears remained leaning against the fence, vulnerable to rust; I left the windows open where newly-cleaned draperies hang; and I did not put in place the piece of plywood I keep for the purpose of deflecting rain that, left to its own devices, may seep under the door of my utility room. In short, I proposed ruin in the perverse hope that nature could not resist the invitation.
The strategy has worked. Just now I am reveling in a second day of rain. The woodpile has been covered, the car and the sheers are sheltered, the window is down and the plywood is in place. More importantly, all our fundamental institutions seem safe once more. But this is only the second day of rain in months, and that sense of security and order may be an illusion. Therefore, I recommend that you all be prepared to take measures similar to mine, and that you plan your most important outings and picnics for the winter. We can take a lesson from aboriginal peoples who have always known that the gods are more likely to be persuaded by sheer numbers of supplicants. Though I suppose, in concluding, that it might be unproductive to dwell upon what has happened to them.
© Ann Williams, 2001
LATE ARRIVING GOOD NEWS
Dear Sierra Club Family: You did it! Thank you! Today President Clinton and Secretary Glickman will sign the paper giving formal protection to 60 million acres of wild forests. Twenty-five years ago the Club launched a campaign to protect all roadless areas from logging and road-building. Today we harvest the victory.
This is the biggest single land protection measure since the Alaska Lands Act in 1980. It has involved every part of the Sierra Club from Advancement, to SIERRA, to Development, to our sister organization the Sierra Club Foundation. Thousands of volunteer hours combined with over 100 staff (both chapter and national) made this happen. At times it seemed beyond our grasp, but at each roadblock we just reached deeper and pushed harder. When they tried to exclude the Tongass, we wouldn't let them. When they tried to have a loophole for helicopter commercial logging, we wouldn't let them. Your determination and morale authority and dedication to the lands we love made this possible. This is a proud moment for the Sierra Club. Bruce Hamilton, National Conservation Chair
Be READY! There will be challenges. We'll need your help. Sign up. See p. 3
CONGRATS TO NEW MEMBERS, OFFICERS OF CHAPTER EXCOM.
Executive Committee: Chair: Paul Gipe. Vice Chair, Glenn Shellcross. Secretary: Art Unger. Treasurer: Larry Wailes. At Large: Harry Love, Lorraine Unger, Monte Harper, Gordon Nipp, Richard Garcia, Ara Marderosian Sierra Club Council Rep: Lorraine Unger
CONDOR GROUP(Fraz. Park & PMC area). Chair: Chester Arthur (661) 242-0423. Outings: Ray Albridge and Harry Nelson. Conservation: Kevin Royle. Hospitality: Elsbeth Feldman. Treasurers: Jean and Edward Rustvold. Newsletter: Mary Ann Lockhart. At Large: Marta Bigler.
KAWEAH GROUP (Porterville, area code 559). Chair: Theresa Stump 781-0594. Vice Chair: Dianne Jetter. Conservation: Carla Cloer. Outings: Jim Clark.
MINERAL KING (Visalia & Hanford). Chair: Harold Wood (559) 739-8527. Vice chair: Mary Moy (559) 625-0287. Conservation: Neil Fernbaugh (559) 798-0343. Membership and Social: Beverly Garcia (559) 592-9865. Outings: Brian Newton (559) 627-3571. Secretary: Cynthia Kovall. Treasurer: Janet Wood (559) 739-8527. Fundraising: Richard Garcia (559) 592-9865 Environmental Education and Webmaster: Harold Wood
OWENS PEAK (Ridgecrest, Desert area code 760) Chair: Dennis Burge 375-7967. Vice Chair: Steve Smith. Conservation: Jeanie Haye. Treasurer: Dolph Amster. Secretary: Helen Huntley. Outings: Don Peterson 375-8599. At Large: Dorothy Vokolek
THE ROADRUNNER February-March, 2001 Published bi-monthly
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Emphasis on summer hikes. Please get all hikes in thru August that you can!
Officers and Committee Chairpeople
Executive Committee (All but noted codes are 661)
Chair: Paul Gipe pgipe@igc.apc.org ; Vice-Chair: Glenn Shellcross, shellcrossg@earthlink.net 832-3382 ; Secretary: Art Unger alunger@juno.com ; Treasurer: Larry Wailes; Conservation: Ara Marderosian sfa@lightspeed.net; At Large: Harry Love, Lorraine Unger, Monte Harper, Richard Garcia, Gordon Nipp, Ara Marderosian.
Kaweah Group (Porterville, area code 559)
Chair: Theresa Stump, 781-0594; Vice-Chair: Diane Jetter; Conservation: Carla Cloer; Outings: Jim Clark
Mineral King Group: (Visalia & Hanford, 559)
Chair: Harold Wood harold.wood@sierraclub.orgVice-Chair: Mary Moy sierra.primrose@excite.com (559) 625-0287
Conservation Chair: Neil Fernbaugh, marmot@lightspeed.net (559) 798-0343
Membership and Social: Beverly Garcia gmachine@psnw.com (559) 592-9865
Outings: Brian Newton xchiker@lightspeed.net (559) 627-3571
Secretary: Cynthia Koval cyn4life@inreach.com (559) 635-2526
Treasurer: Janet Wood jswood@mediaone.net (559) 739-8527
Fundraising: Richard Garcia gmachine@psnw.com (559) 592-9865
Environmental Education and Webmaster: Harold Wood harold.wood@sierraclub.org
Owens Peak Group (Desert Area Code 760)
Chair: Dennis Burge, dennis93555@yahoo.com 375-7967; V.C.: Steve Smith; Conservation: Jeanie Haye; Treasurer: Dolph Amster; At Large: Dororthy Vokolek; Outings: Don Peterson, 375-8599
Condor Group (Frazier Park & Pine Mountain)
Chair: Chester Arthur ches@frazmtn.com (661) 242-0423; Membership: Barbara Matthews; Outings: Ray Albridge & Harry Nelson; Conservation: Kevin Royle; Hospitality: Elsbeth Feldman; Publicity; Karen Cotter: Treas: Jean & Ed Rustvold; Ast Treas: M Albridge; Newsletter: Mary Ann Lockhart; At Large: Marta Bigler
Editor: Commencing February 1, 2001: Mary Ann Lockhart
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