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Welcome!
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The Rachel Carson Group of the Sierra Club
The Rachel Carson Group comprises much of Jefferson County and the
northwest part of the Denver area - Arvada, Broomfield, Golden, Green Mountain, Lakewood, Thornton, Wheat Ridge and part of Westminster.
Issues that our group is currently addressing include; the loss of
open space, sprawl, over population, national parks, mass transportation and the proposed beltway through Golden.
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on
the wonders and realities of the universe about us,
the less taste we shall have for destruction."
- Rachel Carson, 1907 - 1964
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Recent Pix:
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Greg Casini says farewell and Roger Wendell visits John Muir's birthplace!
Greg, Susan, Roger & Dan
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Greg, Marsha, Dan, and Judy
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Roger and John Muir...
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John Muir's birthplace
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Southeast Coast, Scotland
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Back in '06 the Rachel Carson Group participated in the Lakewood "Cool Cities" campaign. Click Here for more information on Cool Cities...
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Rachel Carson Group
CALENDAR
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Hike
Date: April 26, 2008 (Saturday)
Trailhead Meeting Time: To be announced by leader...
Where: Barr Trail - from Manitou Springs to Barr Camp and back again (takes us half way up Pikes Peak). This is one of Roger's favorite's that he repeats a few times each year. However, it's still a very Strenuous hike so be prepared for a difficult day at 14 Miles roundtrip and 3,500+ feet of elevation gain (Barr Camp is at 10,200 feet). This is not an easy hike, you can expect at least 6 hours of fast and continuous walking to complete the trip!
Bring: Ten Essentials, cold weather gear, suitable footwear, and instep crampons in case there's still some snow or ice accumulation along the trail (usually there's some along the first part and then further up in the shaded portions nearing the cabin...). We'll stop for lunch at the cabin where they usually serve hot chocolate and soup (but bring some of your own food, just in case!).
Participants: Miminum 4, maximum 10.
Leader: Roger J. Wendell, 303-859-1644
email: roger.wendell_@_rmc.sierraclub.org (remove my anti-spam "_" underscores...)
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May '08 Meeting
Date: To be announced
Time: 6 pm ExCom, 7 pm General Meeting
Presenter: To be announced
Where: City of Arvada Administrative Building, 8101 Ralston Road (58th
Ave. and Ammons St. - 8 blocks west of Wadsworth in Arvada - Simply
enter through the main door labeled in big letters "Police" and we're
in the room on the left across from the reception desk.)
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Click Here, or on this Google symbol, for a map and directions to 8101 Ralston Road in Arvada...
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More Recent Pix:
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Carl Pope visits us!
Roger & Carl Pope
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Roger and Dan Disner
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October '06 was a great month for your humble RCG webmaster! In addition to
attending Greg Casini's farewell dinner, at Denver's Las Delicias restaurant
(Angela Medberry, Mike Mueller, Mark Collier, Roger Singer, JoLynn Jarboe, Jason Wells, and a bunch of others were there as well!), I was also able to visit the birthplace of Sierra Club founder John Muir while
on a road trip around Scotland! And, equally special, I also had the good fortune of interviewing Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope for an
October 31st broadcast at Boulder/Denver radio station KGNU.
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Click Here for the interview Roger conducted with Executive Director Carl Pope (it was aired on 10/31/06)...
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Mountains to Plains Transportaion Solutions
Working to bring you a transit choice in the I-70 Mountain Corridor
No Northwest 470 Freeway/Tollroad!
At our September 27, 2005 ExCom meeting we voted to take a position against the proposed
superhighway through Golden, Arvada, and Wheat Ridge. It is agreed that the creation of such highways
destroys open space, wastes resources, and promotes sprawl and unwanted population increases...
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Click Here for the Secretary's page: Meeting minutes, Bylaws, election results and other related matters...
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Click Here to take our Earth Day Pledge!
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Click Here for our Group's Pix Page!
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Click Here for Roger's photos from the Sierra Summit!
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Who was Rachel Carson?
Rachel Carson was born in 1907 on a farm in Springdale, Pennsylvania.
She graduated from what is now Chatham College and then earned a Masters Degree
in Marine Biology at Johns Hopkins University. Rachel Carson taught Zoology
at the University of Maryland and eventually took a job with the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service. While working for the government she wrote a number of
books that gave her the financial independence to quit her position and begin work
on her most famous book.
That book, Silent Spring, was published in 1962 and was a major influence in
helping people understand the damage pesticides and chemicals are doing to our health and
environment. In 1992, a panel of distinguished Americans declared Silent Spring the
most influential book of the past 50 years. Sadly, Rachel Carson died in 1964 of a cancer
that may have been caused by exposure to the very environmental carcinogens she had been studying...
Joining Sierra Club Listservers:
The Sierra Club's Rocky Mountain Chapter has a great many interesting listservers that can be joined at:
http://www.rmc.sierraclub.org/listserv.shtml
The Rachel Carson Group maintains three listservers of its own:
We welcome your participation!
Rachel Carson Group
P.O. Box 17174
Golden, CO 80402-6019
Phone: 206-202-2212 (Roger's voice mail)
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Last update:
March 30, 2008
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