Throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties groups of Sierra Club members work together on many conservation projects and environmental concerns and give voice to efforts to protect open spaces and wild habitats.

 

Clean Air, Water & Energy

We will continue to organize and mobilize to restore the right to clean air and clean water and build sustainable communities powered by clean, renewable energy.

Coastal Preservation

Our coastal campaigns and committees work with state and local agencies to protect and preserve our coastal habitats and communities from the threats of pollution, development, and a changing climate.  

Open Space & Habitat Preservation

We play a pivotal role in developing the sustainable and just solutions necessary to protect our home’s natural beauty, wild creatures, and scenic landscape from the climate and extinction crisis

Regional Conservation Committees


Find Your Regional Group

Conservation Chairs for each Regional Group can help members learn about Sierra Club resources for taking lead on issues and identify current campaigns and actions being taken by fellow members on topics of interest.

More about these Committees and Task Forces >

 

Contact: Conservation Program Manager Kim Orbe at kim.orbe@sierraclub.org

 

[Header photos: Forest © Unknown , Navigation Noodle © Jane Simpson all rights reserved ]

 

 

Conservation News

Owens Valley

Ecological Impacts of Southern California’s Thirst on the Owens Valley Region

William Mulholland, mastermind behind the now 110 year old Los Angeles Aqueduct, spoke these words as water first surged down through the channel and began to make its way towards Southern California. Now over a century later, the region has heeded Mulholland’s order, demanding water at alarming rates and leaving a slew of ecological problems in its wake.

San Diego Has A Cross Border Sewage Problem

For decades, raw sewage from Tijuana, Mexico has, and continues, to flow across the border into San Diego, California.  This discharge flows into the Tijuana River Valley, and ultimately to the Pacific Ocean.  This pollution has negatively impacted the Tijuana River Valley and the Tijuana River Estuary, one of the last remaining estuaries in California, and the beaches.  Unhealthy concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria has forced the County of San Diego to close 10 miles of beach access from the US-Mexico Border all the way to the beaches of Coronado.

Water out of crisis

SoCal’s Water Resilient Future looks like Ventura Water Pure

Southern California Cities are moving towards independence from imported water from faraway watersheds and the Bay Delta Estuary. Given the extremes of dry and wet weather with climate change, forward thinking Southern California cities are relying more on local water supplies including fully treating wastewater or sewage to the point that it is cleaner than what comes out of your faucet. These programs are called PURE Water and after extensive research and testing, state issued guidelines finally came out this year.