A look back at some of the big things that happened in 2016!
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ForestWatch’s 2016 Top Accomplishments
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52 Los Padres Recreation Sites Now Under Private, For-profit Management
Forest Service issues new concessionaire permit despite substantial public opposition.
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A Controversial Plan to Privatize Campgrounds & Trailheads
Cash-strapped Forest Service to transfer 52 camps, day use areas, and trailheads to a private management company.
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Agreement Secures Permanent Public Access to Matilija Falls
ForestWatch and other groups sign agreement with landowner, ending years of dispute over the historic trail
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Lawsuit Challenges Dangerous Oil Drilling in Santa Paula Canyon
Three conservation groups sued Ventura County to halt a plan to drill 19 new oil wells along the Santa Paula Canyon Trail.
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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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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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Wilderness Legislation Announced for Los Padres & Carrizo Plain
ForestWatch Praises Bill to Protect More Than 300,000 Acres of Public Land and 158 Miles of Wild & Scenic Rivers Along California’s Central Coast
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What’s at Stake
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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