More than 600,000 acres of the Los Padres National Forest in California could re-open to industrial logging and road-building ...

Environmental groups urge lawmakers to support permanent protections through Roadless Area Conservation Act In a sweeping ...

The Trump administration’s plan would open 600,000 acres of roadless areas to commercial logging, vegetation management, and ...

Bryant Baker, the director of conservation at Los Padres ForestWatch, disagreed with that assessment.. He said building new roads increases the risk of human-caused wildfires, and timber ...

A Senate budget proposal that threatened to sell more than 875,000 acres in the Los Padres National Forest is paused for now.

That’s why the Santa Barbara-based nonprofit, Los Padres ForestWatch, has launched the new web app, OpenTrails. In light of the severe storms that hit the Central Coast earlier this year, several ...

Since 2004, ForestWatch has been leading the charge to protect and restore the forests, chaparral, grasslands, rivers, wildlife, and wilderness along California’s Central Coast through education ...

Federal forests in San Luis Obispo County are safe for now, but Baker said he expects more federal policies to target public ...

Los Padres ForestWatch’s Bowl to Be Wild event will be 1-4 p.m. Aug. 17 at Santa Barbara Lawn Bowls Club, 1216 De La Vina St., Santa Barbara. The ...

“This announcement closes the chapter on a toxic and dangerous legacy of fracking in the Sespe,” said Jeff Kuyper, executive director of Los Padres ForestWatch, a group that has fought oil ...

More than 600,000 acres of the Los Padres National Forest could re-open to industrial logging and road-building if the Trump administration achieves its goal of rescinding the Roadless Rule. U.S ...