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ForestWatch Urges State Officials to Protect Forest from Fracking

By on January 29, 2014 in California Condor, Oil Development, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

Officials Accept Public Input on the Controversial Oil Extraction Process

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Forest Service Issues Draft Decision Against any New Wilderness in Los Padres National Forest

By on January 17, 2014 in California Condor, Cuyama Valley, Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Mt. Pinos Area, Oil Development, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, Wilderness, Wildlife Protection

Decision Rejects Wilderness Protection for 16 Pristine Roadless Areas, Leaving Them Vulnerable to Development

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Repeat Offender Landowner Under Investigation for Damaging Sespe Creek

By on December 11, 2013 in Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

Multiple Agencies Respond to Citizen Complaints About Unpermitted Bulldozing, Road Construction, and Vegetation Removal in Critical Habitat for Endangered Steelhead

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Tamarisk Removal Project

By on December 3, 2013 in Ventura County, Volunteer Projects, Wilderness

ForestWatch and Keep The Sespe Wild team up to remove mature tamarisk in Sespe watershed

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November Clean-up Success

By on November 21, 2013 in California Condor, Trash Cleanups, Ventura County, Volunteer Projects, Wildlife Protection

LPFW volunteers clean up Tar Creek trailhead and Sespe tributary shooting area

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Report: Oil Industry Trashing Public Lands and Endangering Wildlife in Los Padres National Forest

By on November 18, 2013 in California Condor, Oil Development, Publications, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

ForestWatch Investigation Reveals Widespread Trash Contamination, Toxic Chemicals, and Other Hazards to Endangered California Condors in Ventura County’s Sespe Oil Field

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ForestWatch Issues Statement on Draft Fracking Regulations

By on November 15, 2013 in Oil Development, Ventura County

Draft Regulations Released Today Will Govern the Controversial Oil Extraction Process in the Los Padres National Forest’s Sespe Oil Field

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Fracking Escalates in Los Padres National Forest

By on October 23, 2013 in Oil Development, Ventura County

Controversial Oil Extraction Technique Recently Used on Six More Wells in the Sespe Oil Field

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Thorn Point Clean-up

By on October 15, 2013 in California Condor, Location, Mt. Pinos Area, Trash Cleanups, Ventura County, Volunteer Projects, Wilderness, Wildlife Protection

Historic Lookout Site Scoured for Microtrash

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House Passes Bill to Open National Forests to Development, Waive Environmental Laws, and Reduce Public Input

By on September 20, 2013 in Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Monterey County, Mt. Pinos Area, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

Legislation would expand development throughout the Los Padres…

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