Founded by John Muir in 1892, the Sierra Club is the largest, oldest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. The Sierra Club is a non-profit, member-supported, public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions.

We are glad you are here! Like you, each of our members is concerned about the environment in which we live. Our local Eastern Idaho Group of the Idaho Chapter of the Sierra Club consists of members in the following counties of Eastern Idaho:

The Eastern Idaho Group has existed from time-to-time since the early 1970s, but it was formally re-established in 1988. We reorganized the group in 2007 and, since that time, have focused most of our attention on the public lands of the United States -- your lands. We work on wilderness, endangered species, forestry, grazing, control of the destructive aspects of off-road vehicles, and to a lesser extent, mining. We are also joining with many others to keep your public lands in public hands. We fight efforts to sell off our national forests, national parks, national wildlife refuges to the highest bidder. Please step forward and get involved to help our group maintain an active Sierra Club voice in Eastern Idaho. For us...

• This is not about getting back to nature. It is about understanding we've never left.
• We are deep in our nature every day. We're up to our ears in it. It is under our feet, it is in our lungs, it runs through our veins.
• We are not visitors here. We weren't set down to enjoy the view. We were born here and we're part of it -- like any ant, fish, rock, or blade of grass.
• This connection is as personal as it is fundamental. It can't be proved with theorems and diagrams. You either feel it our your don't. Sierra Club members feel it.
• Maybe it came to you on a mountain trail, or on a river bank, or at a windowsill watching a spider’s unthinking intelligence unfold.
• Simply put, it’s the sudden conviction that there is something out there, something wonderful. And it is much, much bigger than you.
• A revelation like this could easily overwhelm a person. We choose to let it inspire us.
• Nature, vastly complex and infinitely subtle, is our perfect metaphor. Related to
  everythiing, signifying everything, it is the spring where we go to renew our spirit.
  
• And it, in turn, asks something of us. It compels us to take responsibility and then to take action.
  
• Look, there is nothing inevitable about the future of our environment. A poisoned stream can get worse, stay the same, or get better. It depends largely on what we choose to do.
• That simple belief, backed by 100 years of effort and result, is what drives the Sierra Club.
• So, forget the grim cliché of the selfless environmentalist. When you accept your
  connection to nature, suddenly you can’t look at the world without seeing something very personal in it.
• You are part of it, and you work for the planet because it gives you joy to do so. You work for the planet because you belong to it.

(From the Sierra Club “Premise” Poster, presented to the Board November 13-14, 1999, by the Communication & Education GovCom)