Saving Clover Valley  -  News
Sierra students ask other campus groups to join fight to save Clover Valley
By Niesha Lofing - Bee Staff Writer - Published 1:31 pm PST Friday, March 2, 2007

A Sierra College Associated Students group says it will ask the faculty Academic Senate to speak out for
preserving a 662-acre nature area in northeast Rocklin from development.
Sierra's Student Senate on Wednesday plans to ask the faculty group to pass a resolution supporting
preserving Clover Valley, an open area for which a 558-unit housing development is proposed.
The student group passed its resolution on Clover Valley in December, joining several citizens groups against
developing the area. Now, the students are working to get other governing bodies on campus to take similar
actions.
The students' resolution also may be presented to the college's board of trustees in the future for
endorsement, said Janet Voris, student representative for the Associated Students.
"We think that it should be preserved because there is a lot of educational value in Clover Valley," Voris said,
adding that students from multiple disciplines, ranging from photography to geology, could do field work there.
ECOS will be showing Sean Booth's movie - Clover Valley: Last of It's Kind on Friday, April 13 in Sewell Hall
in lecture room S-111 at 6:00. It will be the last film in a series of environmental fillms that we're showing, and
we timed it to come right before Earth Day.
Admission will be free. The room holds about 100 people. ECOS will be advertising on campus.
Janet Voris
Sierra students speak out to save Clover Valley
By: Toby Lewis, The Placer Herald - Friday, March 16, 2007 9:31 AM PDT

Justin Walker and Janet Voris display the resolution to save Clover Valley passed by the student senate at
Sierra College last year. They are now asking the Academic Senate to draft a similar resolution.
The Associated Students of Sierra College have spoken and their message is clear: Clover Valley should be
saved because of its intrinsic educational value.
The group unanimously passed a resolution to save Clover Valley in December last year and is now working
to get faculty and administration to draft a similar resolution.
"Our goal is to make a campus-wide statement to the city of Rocklin," said Janet Voris, a member of the
Student Senate who helped draft the resolution. "We can see a lot of value and learning potential (in Clover
Valley)."  
Clover Valley, a 662-acre parcel of land in northeast Rocklin, has been the subject of much discussion
regarding a proposed development plan for the area.
Even though the land is privately owned, the Associated Students of Sierra College feel the area should be
preserved for educational use as it is one of the last remaining large open spaces in Rocklin.
"Clover Valley is, in fact, a raw and undisturbed resource of education that must be preserved in the interest
of students community-wide," the resolution reads.
Voris said she worked closely with members of the Clover Valley Coalition to help draft the resolution and
learn more about the valley.
"As the economy grows, we want to make sure it is not at the expense of the environment," said Joe
Medeiros, professor of biological sciences at Sierra College.
Medeiros, a member of the Academic Senate, said he is in the process of drafting the discussion for the
senate to consider a similar resolution passed by the Associated Students.
"Clover Valley is a living laboratory with real time access for students," Medeiros said.
The Sierra College Academic Senate could be considering the resolution this week, he said.
"As Rocklin, Roseville and Lincoln grow, we need to preserve some open space," Voris said.
Voris added that students from a wide variety of disciplines could do field work in the Valley, which houses an
extensive range of ecosystems and micro-climates.
"I could really see a connection between Clover Valley and what is has to offer to what Sierra College has to
offer," said Justin Walker, a member of the Associated Students who also helped draft the resolution.
The area also is home to Native American burial grounds, artifacts and grinding holes.

ECOS, a Sierra College environmental club, will be showing the Clover Valley film, "Clover Valley, the Last of
its Kind," Friday, April 13 at 6 p.m. at Sewell Hall room 111.

For more information, contact Voris at jvoris@sierracollege.edu                        
                      
Environmental Education Award goes to Sean Booth for his work in making the film ,
"Clover Valley--Last of Its Kind".
Placer Herald - June 14th, 2007 - POLL:  No to Clover Valley project
Notice of availability of a Final Environmental Impact Report For The Clover Valley
Subdivisiion Project (SCH#93122077)  -   PAGE 1  and PAGE 2
Available now June 22, 2007  - Final EIR for Clover Valley
Sierra College Senate Resolution in support of Protection of Clover Valley -  
Rocklin Campus, CA      official signed copy page 1 and page 2
The Referendum Signatures  have been submitted to the Rocklin City Clerk
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     NOVEMBER 2007 proclaimed "Native American Heritage Month "
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