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 […]
Yearly Archives: 2021
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fight back against big money in local politics and help STOP a BULLY District Attorney Jill Ravitch is under attack and nothing short of the independence of the Sonoma County’s DA’s office is at stake. Recall Ravitch, the “organization” behind this petition has just one funding source: millionaire developer […]
FIRST-EVER HYBRID GALA AND AUCTION JULY 31st – 4 to 6 pm Traditionally, SCCA has hosted our Grassroots Gala in person every summer. Last year, we moved to an online event. This year’s Grassroots Gala is a Hybrid Gala. The Online portion will present our program via Zoom, where […]
Recently SCCA’s Aja Henry was featured on KCBS radio with Megan Goldsby! Listen to SCCA make a case for stronger tree and forest land protects for our county “A group of conservationists in Sonoma County are looking to put a halt on developers cutting down oak trees. As KCBS’ Megan Goldsby […]
SB 467 Oil well setbacks, fracking ban SB 467 would put a stop to new hydraulic drilling and other enhanced oil recovery techniques. Senators Wiener and Limon, along with Senator Allen and Assembly Members Stone and Kalra, have introduced the bill to ramp up the fight to protect the public […]