Deep Dialogues – Elders Climate Action Conversation Series

Presented by our Natural Solutions Working Group in cooperation with Sierra Club. Join us to learn about the Massachusetts Sierra Club’s efforts to return the public forests of the Quabbin, Ware, and Wachusett watersheds to wildlands and how you can support this effort!

Speakers

Bill Stubblefield, Ph.D., has had a lifelong interest in ecology and evolution. He has an MA in Biology from the University of California and a PhD in Biology from Harvard University. Over the last few years, he has focused on the potential of natural solutions to the multiple planetary crises we now face, especially the potential of forests to accumulate carbon and preserve biodiversity. Currently, Bill devotes most of his time to climate activism through involvement with multiple environmental groups, including the Sierra Club’s Forest Protection Team, Wendell State Forest Alliance, and is a founder of the Forest Facts group that analyzes data and reports that drive public policy around forest management from economic, political, social and ecological perspectives. Bill has been instrumental in forming the MA Sierra Club’s campaign to permanently protect the public forests of the Quabbin, Ware and Wachusett watersheds as wildlands.

Lynne Man, Ph.D., is the Sierra Club Forest Protection Team founder and co-leader. She began the group in 2021 in response to a personal experience of state-sponsored logging in a public forest that she loved. Lynne will explain how and why the team came to develop the Watershed Protection Campaign and how members of the public can support this effort.