How can I get involved?

So, you care about Ogden's environment. But what can you do about it? Here are a few suggestions, ranging from the quick and easy to long-term commitments.

Attend a Sierra Club meeting or outing.

Our occasional meetings are announced on our group's home page, while our outings schedule has a page of its own. Both meetings and outings are great ways to meet other people who care about Ogden's environment. All our activities are open to members and nonmembers alike, and nearly all are free of charge.

Subscribe to our email news list.

Subscribers receive announcements of our group's activities and local environmental news, usually about once or twice a month. We promise not to fill your in-box, and we don't share our email list with anyone.

To subscribe, just send a request to our listmaster, Dan Schroeder, at . Or you can subscribe yourself, by sending a message to listserv@lists.sierraclub.org, with the line

sub ut-ogden-news yourfirstname yourlastname

in the body of the message. (Replace "yourfirstname" and "yourlastname" with your first and last names, and leave the subject line blank.)

To unsubscribe, send any message to ut-ogden-news-signoff-request@lists.sierraclub.org, or ask the listmaster to remove you from the list.

Archives of announcements from the list are available on the web at http://lists.sierraclub.org/Archives/ut-ogden-news.html.

Join the Sierra Club.

Members automatically receive our group and chapter newsletters, as well as Sierra Magazine and discounts on Club merchandise. More importantly, the more members we have in any given area, the more attention we get from elected officials and others in that area. And, although the Ogden Group is a low-budget, volunteer-led outfit, members' dues are crucial in supporting the state- and national-level Sierra Club from which we receive so much support (such as the server that hosts this web page). For more information about Club membership, please click here.

Lead an outing.

If you have a favorite place that others should know about, why not lead a Sierra Club outing to visit it? While many of our outings are "just for fun," we also encourage educational trips to learn more about environmental issues, and service projects to clean up an area or repair a trail. To lead an outing, you must be a Sierra Club member. Interested? Contact John at or at 801-985-6854.

Write a letter to the editor.

Our local daily newspaper, the Standard-Examiner, has a very generous policy of printing most of the letters it receives. There's no easier way to reach an audience of thousands! Letters must be under 300 words, and must be accompanied by your name, address, and phone number (so they can call to confirm that you wrote the letter). If you'd like some feedback on a draft of your letter, feel free to email it first to one of our officers. When your letter is finished, you can submit it by email to letters@standard.net.

Participate in local decision making.

Many of the most important environmental decisions are made at the local level. We encourage everyone to vote in local elections, attend candidate forums and town meetings and public hearings, and otherwise get to know their local public officials. Often it takes just one interested citizen to educate a local official and make a real difference. If you live in Ogden City, you can learn more about our local government at the Ogden City web site.

Although the U.S. Forest Service is a branch of the federal government, many land management decisions are made at the local level. Most of the public lands in the Ogden Group's territory are within the Ogden Ranger District of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, under the direction of District Ranger Chip Sibbernsen, WCNF Ogden Ranger District, 507 25th Street, Ogden, UT 84401, 801-625-5112.

Adopt a roadless area.

If you enjoy visiting our local National Forest lands and want to help us protect them from further harm, this program is for you! Please see our Adopt a Roadless Area web pages for more information.

Become a Sierra Club leader.

All of our officers can use help, and some might even be looking for a successor to take over the job! Please see our officers page for a list of currently active officers and information about upcoming leadership meetings.

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Last modified on 31 March 2004.