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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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What’s at Stake

By on April 26, 2013 in California Condor, Cuyama Valley, Grazing, Location, Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Mt. Pinos Area, Oil Development, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Trails & Public Access, Ventura County, Wilderness, Wildlife Protection

Sixteen Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs) across the Los Padres National Forest were included in the Forest Service’s recently-released draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement …

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ForestWatch Investigation Reveals Widespread Fracking in Los Padres

By on October 5, 2012 in Oil Development, Ventura County

The controversial oil extraction technique is making a resurgence in the Sespe Oil Field, threatening downstream water supplies…

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ForestWatch Protects Cuyama Valley From Large-Scale Oil Exploration

By on April 3, 2012 in Cuyama Valley, Oil Development, Santa Barbara County

Project Would Have Used Dynamite, Helicopters & ATVs to Explore For Oil Deposits Across 23 Square Miles Between the Los Padres National Forest & Carrizo Plain…

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Agency Requires a Full Environmental Study of Company’s Plans to Explore for Oil on the Carrizo Plain National Monument

By on July 1, 2008 in Carrizo Plain, Oil Development

The Bureau of Land Management requires a full Environmental Impact Statement due to potential significant impacts.

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Oil Company Seeks Drilling Rights in Upper Lopez Canyon

By on September 12, 2007 in Oil Development, San Luis Obispo County, Wilderness

ForestWatch joins with landowners to protect Lopez Creek and Santa Lucia Wilderness.

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ForestWatch Files Lawsuit to Stop Oil Drilling Expansion in Los Padres National Forest

By on April 23, 2007 in Forest Service, Oil Development

Lawsuit challenges expansive drilling plan in Los Padres.

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ForestWatch, Rural Landowners Protect Land from Oil Drilling

By on September 7, 2006 in Carrizo Plain, Oil Development, Wildlife Protection

U.S. Bureau of Land Management withdraws 10,088 acres from recent oil lease sale after groups and eight landowners file formal protests.

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