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Forest Service Receives Overwhelming Opposition to Proposed Commercial Logging Projects

By on June 1, 2018 in California Condor, Forest Service, Kern County, Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Mt. Pinos Area, Roadless Areas, Wildlife Protection

Over 99% of public comments submitted opposed the project.

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Industries Put Pressure on Forest Service to Roll Back Environmental Law

By on February 6, 2018 in Forest Service, Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Wildlife Protection

Forest Service plans changes that would make it easier to bypass National Environmental Policy Act.

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ForestWatch’s Top Accomplishments of 2017

By on December 21, 2017 in Carrizo Plain, Events, Fence Removal, Invasives, Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Oil Development, Rivers, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Santa Paula Canyon, Trash Cleanups, Ventura County, Wildlife Protection

Join us as we reflect upon some of our biggest accomplishments of 2017 and build our momentum into the New Year.

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Students Clean Up 500 Pounds of Trash Along Sespe Tributary

By on December 5, 2017 in California Condor, Trash Cleanups, Ventura County, Volunteer Projects

Students from Ojai’s Besant Hill School spent their morning cleaning up Cherry Creek.

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ForestWatch Submits Official Request to List Refugio Manzanita as Endangered

By on November 30, 2017 in Wildlife Protection

Request seeks to protect the Santa Barbara County species under the Federal Endangered Species Act.

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Unofficial Report Suggests Carrizo Plain National Monument Will Not Be Reduced or Eliminated

By on September 18, 2017 in Carrizo Plain, Grazing, Kern County, Oil Development, San Luis Obispo County, Wildlife Protection

Carrizo Plain may be safe from boundary reduction, but monument management plan changes could still occur.

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Volunteers Clean Up Microtrash in Upper Sespe Watershed

By on August 28, 2017 in California Condor, Trash Cleanups, Ventura County, Volunteer Projects, Wildlife Protection

ForestWatch volunteers remove over 250 pounds of microtrash from the Upper Sespe watershed.

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Congress Advances Legislation Attacking National Forest Protections

By on July 5, 2017 in Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Wilderness, Wildlife Protection

ForestWatch and other conservation groups around the country oppose the bill.

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Cherry Creek Gets More Help From Patagonia Team and ForestWatch Volunteers

By on May 1, 2017 in California Condor, Marijuana Grow Site Cleanups, Trash Cleanups, Ventura County

Two groups of volunteers help remove trash from Cherry Creek watershed in late April.

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ForestWatch and SLO Coastkeeper File Lawsuit to Restore Endangered Steelhead in Sisquoc River

By on April 26, 2017 in Dam Removal, Rivers, Santa Barbara County, Wildlife Protection

Groups seek safe passage for steelhead to reach historic spawning grounds in the Los Padres National Forest

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