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Environmental, Community, and Tribal Groups Oppose Logging & Clearing Plan

More than 3,000 people and 100 organizations and businesses weigh in

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Webinar Recording Now Available: Manzanitas of the Central Coast

Featuring one of the world’s foremost experts on manzanitas, Dr. Tom Parker.

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Trump Administration Releases Draft Study of Drilling and Fracking Throughout Central Coast Region

Public comments accepted until June 10.

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Land and Water Conservation Fund Set to Expire Unless Congress Acts

Over 125 parks across the Central Coast have received funding through the legislation.

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Trails, Schools, and Conservation Lands to Be Opened for Oil Drilling, Fracking Across Central Coast

Proposal could open up over 200,000 acres of public land and mineral estate along Central Coast to drilling and fracking.

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52 Los Padres Recreation Sites Now Under Private, For-profit Management

Forest Service issues new concessionaire permit despite substantial public opposition.

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A Controversial Plan to Privatize Campgrounds & Trailheads

Cash-strapped Forest Service to transfer 52 camps, day use areas, and trailheads to a private management company.

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San Clemente Dam Removal

San Clemente Dam, a 106 foot tall dam on the Carmel River in Monterey County, is scheduled to be fully removed by the end of this year.

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Groups Oppose Plan to Open Over a Million Acres of Federal Property in CA to Drilling and Fracking

Bureau of Land Management failed to consider threats of fracking to air, water and wildlife

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Legislation Announced to Benefit Wilderness, Watersheds, and Recreation in the Los Padres and Carrizo Plain

Nearly 250,000 acres of wilderness could be added.

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