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Lawsuit Challenges Unnecessary Fuel Break that Threatens Rare Plant

By on December 7, 2016 in Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Santa Barbara County, Wildlife Protection

Lawsuit filed to protect the Refugio manzanita from a massive, unnecessary fuel break planned by the Forest Service.

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

By on November 17, 2016 in Monterey County, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Trails & Public Access, Ventura County

Forest Service issues new concessionaire permit despite substantial public opposition.

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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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Legal Victory Overturns Plan to Open 1 Million Acres of Public Land to Drilling, Fracking

By on September 6, 2016 in Cuyama Valley, Fracking, Oil Development, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County

ForestWatch lawsuit protects federal lands near Los Padres National Forest

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Cape Ivy Removal

By on May 12, 2016 in Invasives, Santa Barbara County, Volunteer Projects, Wildlife Protection

LogicMonitor employees join forces with ForestWatch to remove invasive cape ivy from Mission Canyon.

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Massive Network of Roads Planned for Protected Area near Figueroa Mountain

By on April 27, 2016 in Grazing, Santa Barbara County, Wilderness

ForestWatch Files Formal Objection to Commercial Livestock Grazing Operation in Happy Canyon

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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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Mission Canyon Cape Ivy Removal

By on July 7, 2015 in Invasives, Santa Barbara County, Volunteer Projects

On Sunday, June 28, volunteers braved the heat of Mission Canyon to remove cape ivy from one of the most important creeks in the SB front country.

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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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