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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

By on January 14, 2015 in Fracking, Location, Oil Development, Ventura County

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

By on January 14, 2015 in Fracking, Oil Development, Rivers, Santa Paula Canyon, Trails & Public Access, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

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

By on January 12, 2015 in Trails & Public Access, Ventura County

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

By on December 23, 2014 in California Condor, Oil Development, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

ForestWatch Protects Condors and Forest From Runaway Oil Development

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Small Dam Removed from Lion Creek

By on November 7, 2014 in Dam Removal, Rivers, Ventura County

Forest Service removes long defunct dam in Lion Creek.

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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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ForestWatch Appeals 5 Oil Wells in Condor Country

By on October 7, 2014 in California Condor, Oil Development, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

Appeal seeks protection for endangered California Condors near Lake Piru

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Conservation Groups File Appeal to Halt Restart of Abandoned Oil Field in Remote Canyon in Ventura County

By on October 6, 2014 in California Condor, Oil Development, Uncategorized, Ventura County

Three conservation groups file an appeal to stop the reopening of an abandoned oil field

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ForestWatch Challenges Approval of Two New Oil Wells Near Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge

By on August 12, 2014 in California Condor, Oil Development, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

Appeal Seeks Protection for Endangered California Condors and Hopper Creek

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ForestWatch Appeals Approval of Oil Wells Near Piru

By on July 30, 2014 in California Condor, Oil Development, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

ForestWatch and CFROG file joint appeal challenging the approval of two oil and gas test wells

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