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Monthly Archives: March 2021
Wild & Scenic Film Fest, April 22
The 2021 Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Tour hosted by Citizens Climate Lobby and this year’s co-hosts; The David Brower Center, Earth Island Institute, Communities for a Better Environment, and Green the Church. Their program this year will be online, and will include twenty of the year’s top environmental films.
Live Virtual Event
Earth Day, April 22, 2021 7PM.
All films available on-demand April 23-27
Kassis Property in SN&R
As vote looms over Rancho Cordova’s last open space, city’s mayor and vice mayor took money from the developer aiming to build over it
By Scott Thomas Anderson | March 24, 2021 | Sacramento News and Review
For months a coalition of Rancho Cordova nature-lovers has been trying to protect the city’s last unspoiled haven along the American River – some 40 acres of grassy, oak-studded wildlife shelter with captivating ties to history and some of the oldest Native American burial sites in the region. If they win, this pastoral property along the brushy shoreline could become a park or learning center. If they lose, it will become 244 tract houses, 24 of which will block one of the most picturesque river views in all of Sacramento.
Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan Presentation, by John Roberts, Mar 23, 2021
On March 23, 2021, John Roberts, Executive Director of the Natomas Basin Conservancy, presented to ECOS about the Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan. It was an excellent and provocative presentation, and now we understand more about the Plan and have a sense of the difficulties ahead.
Click here to view John Roberts’ powerpoint presentation.
Click here to view ECOS President-Elect Susan Herre’s notes on the meeting.
ECOS is 50!
ECOS is 50! Founded on March 10, 1971, the Environmental Council of Sacramento was formed as a visionary forum and an action-oriented coalition to protect and preserve the Sacramento area environment.
Sac County’s General Plan Annual Report
March 23, 2021
Today the Environmental Council of Sacramento and 350 Sacramento submitted a joint comment letter regarding the County’s General Plan Annual Report, which is on the Board of Supervisors’ March 24 Meeting Agenda as Item No 6.
Click here to read the letter.
Photo by Emily Hopper from Pexels
