After many weeks of reviewing applications, conducting interviews and research, SCCA is excited to announce our endorsements for the 2018 November election! The names below represent forward thinking leadership on conservation and broader environmental policy in Sonoma County. We hope that you will take our endorsement under consideration as you […]
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On Wednesday night, September 5 2018 the Town Council of Windsor voted unanimously to ban the use of all synthetic pesticides, effective immediately. This decision is the result of over a year of work initiated by a local Windsor resident, Rosa Gray. Rosa noticed the Town spraying a walking trail […]
Conservation Action celebrated a victory last week when the City of Santa Rosa banned the use of synthetic pesticides like RoundUP in City public spaces. Volunteers for the Toxic Free Future campaign have been working with the City to adopt nontoxic landscape methods for several years. The City’s decision […]
by Chris Grabill, SCCA Board Member 12/1/17 More than 100,000 acres burned in the October wildfires, including hundreds of homes along Sonoma County’s streams and creeks. This scale of disaster has a sizable and devastating effect on our water sources. As winter rains pick up, they add the serious danger […]
By Neal Fishman, SCCA Board President 12/2/17 In a matter of a week, over 15,000 family, friends and neighbors lost their homes to the largest wildfires in California history. And now, six weeks later, the second wave of impacts are hitting. While fire survivors navigate a complex bureaucracy that regulates […]
By Jane Nielson, SCCA Board Member, 12/2/17 “We live in an ecosystem which has evolved to burn,” notes Michael Gillogly, Pepperwood Preserve ranch manager, as he considers that much of the preserve’s 900 acres of grasslands were burned. The October Tubbs wildfire is not a new phenomenon, it overlaps the […]
By Megan Kaun, Nichole Warwick, Lendri Purcell 12/1/17 California will restrict farmers’ use of certain pesticides near schools ac- cording to a new rule announced this November. Taking effect Jan. 1, farmers will no longer be allowed to spray certain pesticides within a quarter mile of public K-12 schools and […]
10/25/17 OES Hazardous Waste and Debris Removal Fact Sheet Questions have circulated about how to most quickly and effectively proceed with toxic waste clean up as rains approach. This work is essential as Adobe Creek and Mark West watershed, among others, are at risk of toxic runoff. The California […]
By Kerry Fugett, 10/16/17 The devastation that hit Sonoma County residents, students, small business owners, workers and our environment during the recent wild fires has been enormous. With well over 7,000 structures destroyed, our community has had to come together like never before. As a leader in grassroots mobilization, […]
UPDATE: 10/15/17 – Vetoed by Governor Brown. Veto Message: To the Members of the California State Senate: I am returning Senate Bill 649 without my signature. This bill establishes a uniform permitting process for small cell wireless equipment and fixes the rates local governments may charge for placement of that […]