Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization founded on May 28, 1892 in San Francisco, California by the well-known conservationist John Muir, who became its first president. The Sierra Club has hundreds of thousands of members in chapters located throughout the United States, and is affiliated with Sierra Club of/du Canada.

External links

• Official Sierra Club website
• Sierra Student Coalition
• Sierra Club of/du Canada
• Sierra Club Votes - project aimed at environmentalist voters
• PAC RECIPIENTS LIST
• Charity Navigator: The Sierra Club Foundation

Internal caucuses

(unofficial groups of Sierra Club members attempting to influence Sierra Club policy by electing candidates to the board of directors)

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Groups are listed below in alphabetical order:

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• Groundswell Sierra - members who claim to represent a wide range of club leaders throughout the country. Groundswell Sierra supports only Nominating Committee candidates for the Board of Directors and supports the enactment of limitations on the right of petition candidates to run.
• JohnMuirLives - members who want the club to adopt a stronger stance on such issues as forest conservation and the club's political endorsement process. A spin-off from the John Muir Sierrans.
• John Muir Sierrans (no website) - formed in the 1990s by David Brower and other club members to promote changes to club positions, in favor of a zero-cut forest policy on public lands and decommissioning Glen Canyon Dam. JMS was successful in changing club positions on both counts.
• Sierra Democracy - members opposed to the club's "old guard", and supporting the rights (in Club elections) of groups like SUSPS and JML. Website was specific to the 2004 board election and has not been updated since.
• Sierra Network of Animal Advocates - animal rights advocates within the Sierra Club, who favor the removal of material in official Sierra Club publications and websites which they see as pro-hunting.
• SUSPS - members who want the club to support U.S. population stabilization by overturning the 1996 decision of the club to take "no position" on immigration.
• Sustainable Sierra - members in support of the 2005 ballot question on the club's population and immigration policies.