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Groups Challenge Los Padres Oil Drilling Plan

ForestWatch and others seek to halt expansion of oil drilling across 52,000 acres of forest land.

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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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Forest in the Crosshairs

A recent report released by Los Padres ForestWatch identifies unregulated target shooting as one of the most serious threats to natural resources and public health and safety in the forest.

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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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Forest Service Agrees to Reconsider Wilderness Protection in LPNF

The U.S. Forest Service is now reevaluating seven roadless areas to recommend as wilderness.

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Chuchupate Invasives Project

Volunteers clear invasives from USFS Ranger Station grounds and adjacent wetland

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Fighting for the San Emigdio Blue

Los Padres ForestWatch submits request to help protect threatened butterfly

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Gold Hill and Kings Clean-up

ForestWatch volunteers clean-up Alamo Mountain shooting area

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Wilderness Legislation Announced for Los Padres & Carrizo Plain

ForestWatch Praises Bill to Protect More Than 300,000 Acres of Public Land and 158 Miles of Wild & Scenic Rivers Along California’s Central Coast

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