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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