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Since its founding over a century ago, Sierra Club has sought to partner with local, state and federal governments to promote the conservation of America's natural resources. Listed below is information on some of the projects Sierra Club is engaged in to ensure that people are able to continue to explore and enjoy the outdoors.
FLORIDA
Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge Habitat Improvement Project
For the past 2 years Sierra Club has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove invasive Brazilian pepper plants from Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the nation's first national wildlife refuge. Using chainsaws, handsaws and herbicides Sierra Club volunteers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff are working to restore a special place for migratory birds and the American people.
HAWAII
Kaneohe Bay Habitat Improvement Project
The Sierra Club has a long-standing partnership with the U.S. Marine Corps to remove invasive mangrove around Kaneohe Bay on Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH) to improve habitat for the endangered Hawaiian stilt and other wildlife. This award winning conservation program has resulted in a doubling of the stilt's numbers at MCBH.
IDAHO
Salmon River Habitat Improvement Project
For the past 4 years, Sierra Club has partnered with the United States Forest Service to improve habitat and recreational opportunities on the main stem of the Salmon River in the Frank Church – River of No Return Wilderness. As part of the partnership Sierra Club volunteers annually float 90 miles of river hand pulling noxious weeds and cleaning up beaches and campsites.
MONTANA
Taylor Fork Habitat Improvement Project
Since 2004 Sierra Club has partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to improve the wildlife habitat values of the Taylor Fork area of the Gallatin National Forest, a place as important to bow hunters as it is to grizzly bears.
The work involves replanting native vegetation on top of scars created by the removal of failing steel culverts beneath a section of abandoned logging road. The particular stretch of road is now gated and closed to motorized vehicles creating a core of wildlife habitat still accessible by foot or horseback.
Watershed Property Habitat Improvement Project
The Sierra Club has partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to improve elk, lynx and bull trout habitat on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in Northwest Montana. The project has successfully resulted in the conversion of old logging roads to pack and saddle trails, the removal of old culverts and the revegetation of an area degraded by past management activities.
Montana Hunter Education Partnership
To promote grizzly bear recovery and keep backcountry hunters safe, Sierra Club has partnered with Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks to provide free inert bear pepper spray training canisters for use at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks hunter education courses in Southwest Montana. Sierra Club has purchased these canisters to encourage proper use of bear pepper spray for hunters who enjoy their sport in grizzly bear country, and to take proactive steps towards reducing human-bear conflicts. Bear pepper spray has proven itself to be an effective tool for avoiding fatal encounters between people and grizzly bears.
Sierra Club's donation has allowed Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks to conduct hands-on training in the proper use and safety of bear pepper spray. The program will provide enough canisters to reach more than 1,000 hunter education participants in more than 10 locales in southwestern Montana in the next year. The Sierra Club is looking to expand this pilot program in the coming years to include other hunter education programs taking place near remaining grizzly bear habitat in the lower-48 United States.
OREGON
Hart Mountain National Antelop Refuge Habitat Improvement Project
Since 1998 the Sierra Club has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove barbed wire fence, which limits the movement of wildlife, on the Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge. The fence removal comes following the elimination of cattle grazing on the refuge.
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