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ForestWatch Welcomes New Forest Supervisor and Mt. Pinos District Ranger

By on December 28, 2017 in Forest Service, Mt. Pinos Area

New forest supervisor named for the Los Padres, and the Mt. Pinos Ranger District gets new district ranger.

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Groups Challenge Los Padres Oil Drilling Plan

By on October 12, 2016 in California Condor, Cuyama Valley, Fracking, Mt. Pinos Area, Oil Development, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

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

By on October 11, 2016 in Cuyama Valley, Monterey County, Mt. Pinos Area, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Trails & Public Access, Ventura County

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

By on March 14, 2016 in Cuyama Valley, Mt. Pinos Area, Publications, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Trash Cleanups, Ventura County

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

By on June 10, 2015 in Cuyama Valley, Fracking, Monterey County, Mt. Pinos Area, Oil Development, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

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

By on May 27, 2015 in California Condor, Carrizo Plain, Cuyama Valley, Fracking, Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Monterey County, Mt. Pinos Area, Oil Development, Rivers, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Trails & Public Access, Ventura County, Wilderness, Wildlife Protection

Nearly 250,000 acres of wilderness could be added.

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Forest Service Agrees to Reconsider Wilderness Protection in LPNF

By on October 23, 2014 in Cuyama Valley, Mt. Pinos Area, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, Wilderness

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

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Chuchupate Invasives Project

By on August 26, 2014 in Mt. Pinos Area, Volunteer Projects

Volunteers clear invasives from USFS Ranger Station grounds and adjacent wetland

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Image courtesy Bill Bouton

Fighting for the San Emigdio Blue

By on August 21, 2014 in Mt. Pinos Area, Wildlife Protection

Los Padres ForestWatch submits request to help protect threatened butterfly

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Gold Hill and Kings Clean-up

By on July 8, 2014 in California Condor, Mt. Pinos Area, Trash Cleanups, Volunteer Projects, Wildlife Protection

ForestWatch volunteers clean-up Alamo Mountain shooting area

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