ForestWatch volunteers clean-up popular climbing area in Santa Ynez Mountains
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Thank You! Our Top Accomplishments for 2013
ForestWatch counts down our top accomplishments for 2013!

Taking out the Trash
LPFW, Patagonia, and community volunteers assemble to clean up abandoned marijuana grow site

Repeat Offender Landowner Under Investigation for Damaging Sespe Creek
Multiple Agencies Respond to Citizen Complaints About Unpermitted Bulldozing, Road Construction, and Vegetation Removal in Critical Habitat for Endangered Steelhead

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

Forest Service Finalizes Policy Against New Wilderness in Los Padres National Forest
Officials Release Final Environmental Impact Statement Outlining How 16 Pristine Roadless Areas Will Be Managed; None of Them Are Recommended for Permanent Wilderness Protection

November Clean-up Success
LPFW volunteers clean up Tar Creek trailhead and Sespe tributary shooting area

Report: Oil Industry Trashing Public Lands and Endangering Wildlife in Los Padres National Forest
ForestWatch Investigation Reveals Widespread Trash Contamination, Toxic Chemicals, and Other Hazards to Endangered California Condors in Ventura County’s Sespe Oil Field

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

Cuyama Peak Clean-up
Clean-up in Condor Country
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Events

The Secret Lives of Snakes
Featuring Dr. Emily Taylor
Thursday, Feb. 20 at Noon
Webinar

Trail Talks: The Natural and Political History of the Dick Smith Wilderness
Thursday, Feb. 20 at 6:30pm
Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library

Free Screening of Elemental: Reimagine Wildfire
Thursday, Feb. 27 at 6pm
SBIFF Film Center
Santa Barbara