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Sierra Club Prairie Group Committees
I-SCAN
The Illinois Sierra Club Activist Network has teamed up with other
environmental groups to create the
Illinois Action Project web-to-fax service. IAP and I-ACT help you fax
a letter, customized with your name and address, directly to your legislator
- with just a few clicks of the mouse!
PRAIRIE GROUP LISTSERV
To receive legislative and local notices/alerts, subscribe to the Prairie
Group listserv by sending a message to: LISTSERV@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG.
Include this one-line command in the message body:
SUBSCRIBE IL-PRAIRIE-ALERTS YourFirstName YourLastName
ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL
(includes links for status & full-text of bills in Springfield)
ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Locate your Illinois Representative and Senator
SEARCH THE NEWS GAZETTE
Search the News Gazette for articles relating to local environmental
issues
More more information about the political activities of the Prairie Group, contact Dick Bishop, 217-328-6379.
The Prairie Group is looking for a Conservation Chair. If interested please contact Alice Englebretsen or (217) 367-7344.
Ecological Landscaping at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
How can we teach ecology through landscaping? Is it possible
on the campus of UofI? Find out more about landscaping options and opinions
in "Ecological
Landscaping on Campus."
Download
"in loco naturae," an article by Bruce
Hannon, Jubilee Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois.
Biodiversity Blitz at Allerton Park
How diverse is Allerton Park? Illinois
Natural History Survey scientists will be finding out during the Midwest's
first Biodiversity Blitz. Scientists will be identifying as many
species (birds, mammals, plants, fungi, lichens, insects, other invertebrates,
fish, reptiles, amphibians, and microbes) as possible from 2pm Friday,
June 29th to 2pm, Saturday the 30th. Come see how biologists gather
biodiversity data--from fish and bat surveying to black-lighting for insects.
There are varying degrees of participation. Visit the Biodiversity
Blitz website for more information, to sign up for specific observation
activities, or to offer expertise.
Mega-dairy update
As of mid-May, the Illinois Dept. of Agriculture has been waiting for
months for more information from the developer of a 3000+ head dairy planned
for Bellflower (NW of Mahomet), to decide whether to issue a permit for
construction to begin. If built, there will be over twice as
many animals at the Bellflower mega-dairy as the current largest Illinois
dairy, in Elmwood, which this Winter dumped over 2 million gallons of waste
from an overloaded lagoon, and was sued by the Illinois Attorney General
and by lenders. For more info: (217) 897-6171, Quad County Clean
Air and Water Coalition, QuadCountyCoalition@Yahoo.com;
and Families Against Rural Messes http://www.farmweb.org/.
I-SCAN
The Illinois Sierra Club Activist Network has teamed up with other
environmental groups to create the Illinois
Action Project web-to-fax service. IAP and I-ACT help you fax a letter,
customized with your name and address, directly to your legislator - with
just a few clicks of the mouse!
SEARCH
THE NEWS GAZETTE
Search the News Gazette for articles relating to local environmental
issues
People involved with membership keep records of who attends meetings, ensure availability of membership brochures at meetings and other functions, poll members about their interests, serve as 'hospitality chair' and greeter at meetings, and provide assistance for efforts to recruit new members and activists. These activities can be handled by a single (busy) person, or they can be assigned to several different people in a Membership Committee.
For more information about joining the Prairie Group of the Sierra Club, contact Jim Beauchamp, 217-344-3307.