HI PHYLLIS! So nice to hear from you. I did not know you live in Colorado. For many years I thought about Colorado the same as I think about California, I great place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. I don't know why so many of those westerners who live in the great outdoors and yet they have little love for their environment and are all republicans (I refuse to capitalize that word). The Iowa Chapter has been quite active in the fight against the Bakken Pipeline and the water quality in Iowa, especially in the Des Moines area. You may have heard that the water company in Des Moines is seuing three counties along the skunk and raccoon rivers for allowing the farmers to pollute with runoff from row crops and liquid manure spills. 

For several years I have been our group's outing leader and last Sunday we toured the town of Geneseo, Illinois's Green Energy Generator Station. It includes 2 really big Wind Machines and a 5 acre+ Solar Array. We saw the inside of one of the wind towers but we didn't climb it and we got up close and personal with more than 4,200 solar panels. We had 22 people who were excited to see all this instead of looking at pretty colored trees as we would usually do on our fall outing. 

Hope you are well and still taking those exciting trips. Jerry Neff 

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Subject: Re: Meetings: You are invited to attend the Sierra Club annual dinner, October 15, Ames, Iowa 

Greetings to all you outstanding Sierra Club leaders and members in IA. Despite the hard fought difference you've made back there on water quality and everything else, those in IA who elected Joni Ernst, and Brandstad are still paying the price of severe flooding resulting from climate change--just not fair 
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Pretty lonely out here with a rag tag SC group in Durango some 60 mi away over mountains in winter, with all the action in Denver 6 hrs away. Still I've been able to attend the Bears Ears hearing with Sec of the Interior,Sally Jewel in Bluff, UT,S testify locally for BLM management plan for fracking on public land and attend a march in Cortez with members of the Ute tribe and environmental community to stand with Standing Rock tribe in ND. Thanks to SC for the outstanding training I received that has enabled me to continue to be involved in issues closest to my heart despite not being a part of a SC group. But it's so much more empowering to be part of a group and chapter. Montezuma County is the poorest in CO & 99% right wing R! Actually wore my Iowans for Hillary 08 to the rec center and got some nasty comments. Got signs on our rural property south of Cortez with Buddhist prayer flags flying on our house while neighbors fly the confederate fag. Thanks for all your work--miss being a part of it, but love living on the CO plateau surrounding by both canyon and mountain hikes. I am living up to my mantra, "hiking till I drop". Phyllis 
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