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Recent Appeal Results

Learn more about the results of our recent appeals

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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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Upcoming Oil Appeal Hearings

Oil industries are pushing to drill and we’re pushing back.

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Forest Service to Enforce Closure of Condor Sanctuary at Tar Creek

Unlawful entry punishable by $5,000 fine and/or six months of jail time.

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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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County Approves Oil Wells Along Popular Hiking Trail in Santa Paula Canyon

ForestWatch Files Appeal to Planning Commission, Citing Violations of State Law

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Heavy equipment from a fracking operation in a mountainous area of the Sespe Oil Field

Draft Report Reveals Significant Environmental Impacts of Fracking in Ventura County’s Sespe Oil Field

State Identifies Significant & Unavoid- able Impacts to Wildlife, Water Quality, & Public Safety in Sespe Oil Field

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Company Proposes 19 New Wells in Santa Paula Canyon

Drilling Planned Next to Popular Hiking Trail Leading to Swimming Holes, Waterfalls, and the Sespe Wilderness

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Lawsuit Filed to Restore Public Access to Matilija Falls

Coalition of Trail Users Seek to Reopen a Popular Trail Used by the Public for More Than One Hundred Years

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Victory! Oil Company Cancels Plans to Drill Wells in Remote Canyon Near National Forest

ForestWatch Protects Condors and Forest From Runaway Oil Development

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