Rio Grande Chapter

7pm Monday, March 22
Location: O’Niell’s Pub, 4310 Central Ave. SE, Albuquerque 87108

Kit McGurn, the Sierra Club’s National Arctic Organizer, will visit Albuquerque to deliver a presentation entitled “Chill the Drills: Oil Development and Climate Change in America’s Arctic”.

When: Tuesday, March 23, 7pm
Where: Santa Fe Preparatory School
What : Climate Change Seminar Series - Free and open to the public
Who: Dr. Janie Chermak, Professor of Economics at UNM, will give a talk on the economic impact of climate change on New Mexico.

Directions to Santa Fe Preparatory School
1101 Camino De Cruz Blanca.

6:30pm-8:00pm March 25
REI, 500 Market Street in the Railyard, Santa Fe
by Rochelle Gerratt - Sierra Club International Trip Leader

Rochelle Gerratt is leading a Sierra Club National Outings trip to Copper Canyon, Mexico from November 7 to 19, 2010. Join her in this slide show of the scenic wonders of Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre.

7:00 pm, March 31
San Juan College, Zia Room, 4601 College Boulevard, Farmington, New Mexico

The Sierra Club is sponsoring another community meeting on the various environmental issues facing the 4 Corners region.

April 3

Easy/Moderate Tour of the Penistaja Mesa Badlands, near Cuba, with guest leader Michael Richie. Another remote BLM gem, with a labyrinth of canyons, fantastic hoodoos along the mesa edges, hugh petrified wood stumps, early mammal fossils and 3 mysterious huge cairns. Come see why we think that this area should be a National Monument. Driving from Santa Fe via Bernalillo. Dogs ok. Norma McCallan (505-471-0005)

Wednesday, April 7, 7:00 p.m.
Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos
Upstairs Meeting Rooms

Robert Tohe: Threats of Uranium Mining to Mount Taylor Traditional Cultural Properties

April 8-11
Berkeley, California.

The conference, sponsored by the Sierra Club & the California Wilderness Coalition will bring grassroots wilderness advocates together from across the country at the University of California in Berkeley.