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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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Taking out the Trash

By on December 13, 2013 in Mt. Pinos Area, Trash Cleanups, Wilderness, Wildlife Protection

LPFW, Patagonia, and community volunteers assemble to clean up abandoned marijuana grow site

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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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Forest Service Finalizes Policy Against New Wilderness in Los Padres National Forest

By on November 22, 2013 in Wilderness, Wildlife Protection

Officials Release Final Environmental Impact Statement Outlining How 16 Pristine Roadless Areas Will Be Managed; None of Them Are Recommended for Permanent Wilderness Protection

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Cuyama Peak Clean-up

By on October 30, 2013 in California Condor, Cuyama Valley, Santa Barbara County, Trash Cleanups, Volunteer Projects, Wilderness, Wildlife Protection

Clean-up in Condor Country

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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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San Clemente Dam Removal Project

By on June 26, 2013 in Dam Removal, Rivers, Wilderness, Wildlife Protection

Largest-ever Dam Removal Project in California Underway …

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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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Protect Los Padres Wilderness!

By on April 25, 2013 in Cuyama Valley, Location, Mt. Pinos Area, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Trails & Public Access, Ventura County, Wilderness

A coalition of forest users, local business leaders, elected officials, scientists, and other stakeholders are working together to ask the Forest Service to reconsider its “no-new-wilderness” policy …

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Public Hearing on Los Padres Forest Plan to be Held in Ventura

By on April 25, 2013 in Wilderness, Wildlife Protection

Third Hearing Called to Discuss Updated USFS Land Management Plan …

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