How We Are Organized

The Sierra Club was founded in 1892. It is subdivided into five levels shown below. Of these the most important are national, chapter and group. Joining the club automatically makes you a member of as many levels as exist in your area.

• National. The organization has more than 750,000 members and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Policy is set by a board of directors elected by the members. It publishes the bimonthly Sierra magazine.
• Regional. Regions exist for administrative purposes and are mostly invisible to members. The Southwest Region includes Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and some of west Texas. Its office is in Phoenix.
• Chapter. The Rio Grande Chapter includes all of New Mexico and the part of west Texas due south of New Mexico. It is governed by an executive committee elected by the members. It publishes the bimonthly Rio Grande Sierran newsletter containing chapter and group news.
• Group. The Rio Grande Chapter is divided into five geographic groups, each with its own elected executive committee:
  • Central New Mexico. Organization.
  • El Paso. Organization.
  • Northern New Mexico. Organization.
  • Pajarito (Los Alamos). Organization.
  • Southern New Mexico. Organization.
  Group territories are built of zip codes. But to make things simpler, we have tried to make group boundaries follow county boundaries where possible. We have three tools to help you see what group you are in:
  • Map of group boundaries.
  • List of zip code assignments in order.
  • List of zip code assignments by county.
• Branch. This is a local term for a geographical subdivision of a large group. Branches are governed by steering committees. In the Rio Grande Chapter, only the Northern New Mexico Group has branches and it has three:
  • Farmington
  • Taos

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Offices

• Sierra Club National Headquarters
  85 Second Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
  415/977-5500
• Southwest Regional Office
  202 E. McDowell Road #227
  Phoenix, AZ 85004
  602/254-9330, Fax: 602/258-6533
• El Paso Environmental Justice Office
  444 Executive Center Blvd., Suite 138
  El Paso, TX 79902
  (915) 351-0474
• Rio Grande Chapter main office
  142 Truman NE
  Albuquerque, NM 87108
  505/243-7767, Fax: 505/243-7771
• Rio Grande Chapter Santa Fe office
  1807 Second Street, Unit #45
  Santa Fe, NM 87505
  505/983-2703
• Central New Mexico Group
  PO Box 25342
  Albuquerque, NM 87125-5342
• El Paso Group
  PO Box 9191
  El Paso, TX 79995
  915/594-7342
• Northern New Mexico Group
  1807 Second Street, Unit #45
  Santa Fe, NM 87505
  (505) 983-2703
• Pajarito Group
  PO Box 945,
  Los Alamos, NM 87544
• Southern New Mexico Group
  PO Box 735
  Mesilla, NM 88046

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