The Sierra Club Angeles Chapter Wildlife and Endangered Species Committee works for the protection of endangered species, natural habitat, and biodiversity and promotes activism within the Chapter and other organizations with similar aims. Please join us either as involved volunteers or as attendees at our scheduled events and meetings.

Past activities have included: educational presentations at the Los Angeles Zoo (Condor Rescue Project), field trips (International Gibbon Study Center, Santa Clarita), and activist activities on behalf of endangered species and natural habitat (Ahmanson Ranch Hearings, Ventura, National Sierra Club Endangered Species Committee Retreat in Carlsbad).

Current Programs, Activities and Projects include:

1. Re-Enchanting the City V Conference, October 18, 2008.
   Leading experts will tell us what must be done to preserve wildlife in an uncertain future. Dr. Danny Harvey from the University of Toronto, is the Keynote speaker on the Conference theme, "GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE EFFECT UPON WILDLIFE AND WILDLANDS". He will be addressing the scientific findings upon which the predictions of rising temperatures and extinction patterns for all living things on the planet are based. He will also address the need to intervene as quickly as possible in order to maintain plant and animal species, as well as to save both marine, air and land habitat from toxic pollution. He is a Member of the International Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) which was a Co-Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 2007, along with former Vice-President Al Gore. There will also be a major presentation by CALTRANS about the ground-breaking wildlife crossing - dubbed the Dr. Doolittle Bridge - that will be contructed over Sepulveda Pass to create a wildlife corridor to the Santa Monica Mountains.
          The Conference is sponsored by the Humane Society of America, the Sierra Club, The Canada Goose Project, and the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. The conference will be held from 8AM to 5PM at the Friendship Auditorium adjacent to Griffith Park on Riverside Drive.
         Click here to register for the Re-Enchanting the City V conference. You will be sent email updates with more information as it becomes available.
   
   
2. Endangered Outings Project: Ever been to any of the famous wild places publicized in the media? Ever wondered why the Sierra Club wants to protect them? This program invites you to experience the wildlands with expert Sierra Club leaders, and to learn about the native trees, plants and animals the Club has been instrumental in having. Our "Launch Activity" of this new program was an outing to Ahmanson Ranch, newly saved and beautifully pristine, in March, 2004. Click here to see photos of our first Ahamanson Ranch outing.
   
   
3. CHATSWORTH NATURE PRESERVE EarthDay events are held every year, with docent-led tours around the Ecology Lake to view Native Plants and various species of birds which inhabit the area. Picnic under 500 year-old Oak Trees and hear the history of the decom-missioned Reservoir of 1919, which is now reclaimed by Mother Nature. Please bring blankets to sit on, food and water to snack on. Sun-block is recommended. Please be aware that everything is packed out, so that the beauty of the area is protected for the beings who live there. Walk-in entrance gate on Valley Circle; From 101 Freeway west, take Topanga Blvd North to Plummer and turn West, 1 mile to gate. Parking is on south side of street. For information, contact Rosemarie White at 818-769-1521

Lynx need homeland security, too!

This photo was taken by the Colorado Division of Wildlife's Lynx Reintroduction Project in April, 2004. It is the first photo taken by the project of a wild lynx kitten outside the den. Successful reproduction of reintroduced lynx is a major milestone for the project. Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, lynx have returned to Colorado's high forests!

"Montana Jim" Cole, a featured speaker Re-Enchanting the City IV Conference in 2006 is the author of LIVES OF GRIZZLIES: MONTANA AND WYOMING, an amazing book of Grizzly photos. . This is one of his remarkable photos of a Grizzly sow with her two big cubs.

Click here to register for Endangered Species/ Wildlife Committee Events