High Country News

Sierra Club fights Keystone XL with civil disobedience

The act will be the first of its kind sanctioned by the group’s board of directors in its 120 year history, and may push the conversation over the controversial tar-sands oil pipeline to a new level.

by Judith Lewis Mernit, Feb 18, 2013
Ferret recovery pioneer moves on

District Ranger Bill Perry, who led the effort to help restore endangered black-footed ferrets, is leaving South Dakota’s Buffalo Gap National Grassland for a job in Washington, D.C.

by Tom Domek, Aug 22, 2005
Environmental warrior Martin Litton is still fighting at 95

Martin Litton, who has spent his entire life fighting to preserve Western landscapes, is still battling to save California’s giant sequoias.

by Jane Braxton Little, Feb 29, 2012
The most influential conservationist you've never heard of

The Sierra Club's Debbie Sease has spent three decades on Capitol Hill, fighting for the West.

by John Aloysius Farrell, May 01, 2011
Go East, young greens

What is it like to be an idealistic young environmentalist working on Capitol Hill?

by Paul Larmer, May 01, 2011
Love wilderness? Thank a veteran

Some of the environmental movement’s greatest heroes were also heroes of World War II.

by Ben Long, Sep 14, 2010
Four decades of the Sierra Club

Michael McCloskey’s autobiography, In the Thick of It: My Life in the Sierra Club, covers four decades of his life and work as an environmentalist

by Steve Rumsey, Nov 13, 2006
Building a more effective environmental movement

In The Rebirth of Environmentalism, activist Douglas Bevington explores the relationship between the giant national organizations, like the Sierra Club, and the small grassroots groups.

by Felice Pace, Apr 25, 2010
Turnover at the top

Many environmental groups are seeing a changing of the guard, epitomized by 38-year-old activist Mike Brune's new job as head of the Sierra Club.

by Ray Ring , Feb 21, 2010
The Shot Heard Round the West

Twenty years after the SouthWest Organizing Project accused conservation groups of ignoring environmental justice, diversity in the movement remains elusive.

by Marty Durlin, Jan 31, 2010