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WINTER 2012 Y Rsar Ive Nn a Ojai Th 5 Wild! Printed on 100% Post-Consumer Recycled Paper Join Us! Upcoming Events Post Office Box 831 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 LOS PADRES Phone: 805.617.4610 Email: [email protected] FORESTWATCH Web: www.LPFW.org Protecting wildlife and wild places along California's Central Coast WILDERNESS & OHV LEGISLATION . FRAZIER MOUNTAIN PROTECTED . OJAI WILD! . CALIFORNIA WHITE FIR SKIING IN THE SESPE . STEELHEAD RECOVERY PLAN . OIL DRILLING STOPPED . KERN PRIMROSE SPHINX MOTH WINTER 2012 y rsar ive nn A Ojai th 5 Wild! Printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper JOIN US! UPCOMING EVENTS Volunteer as Condor Film "Extra" Earth Day Festivals Volunteer Carrizo Defencing March 24 April 21-22 Ojai, SB, SLO May 5 Jeff Hobbs Michael Doliveck Michael A French film crew has contacted The season is upon us; Earth Day We thought 2011 would mark the end ForestWatch with an interest in film- festivals! Plan on stopping by the to our fence removal project, but we fifth anniversary Ojai Wild! March 31 ing a volunteer microtrash cleanup for ForestWatch booth at your local Earth recently learned about another stretch of Photo courtesy of Stephen Lee Carr an upcoming condor documentary. The Day to ask questions, look at maps, or fencing that needs to be pulled and have film will feature the San Diego Zoo simply say hello. this one last trip on the books for May 5. Safari Park, LA Zoo, various condor experts, scenery from Big Sur to Baja We'll be in Ojai at Oak Grove School Numbers are limited, so if interested California, and us! on Saturday April 21, Santa Barbara at please contact [email protected] Alameda Park both April 21 & 22, and Contact [email protected] to RSVP in San Luis Obispo at El Chorro Park Sunday April 22. PROTECTING FRAZIER MOUNTAIN Forest Service backs off plans for commercial timber sale BASE Last month, the Forest Service backed Then, earlier this year, the Forest Service off earlier plans for a commercial log- announced that it would scrap the com- CAMP ging operation on Frazier Mountain in mercial timber sale on Frazier Mountain, the remote Ventura County backcoun- and instead focus on a forest restoration Throughout the try of the Los Padres National Forest. project that would only remove small, history of the Los ForestWatch had opposed the logging densely-packed trees less than ten inches Padres National plan, which would have been the first in diameter. The project would also con- Forest, the public commercial timber sale in the Los Padres tain provisions to protect and restore has played a pivotal in decades and would have caused sig- wildlife habitat on the mountain. At the role in shaping the nificant damage to the mountain’s sensi- same time, the agency released a 200- Terri Laine Terri way our region’s tive wildlife and waterways. page Environmental Assessment outlin- ing additional ways to protect the fragile STELLAR Jeff Kuyper, public lands are Executive Director managed – submit- The logging project was first announced ecosystems on Frazier Mountain. This SUPPORT PHOTO ting letters to forest in 2005 and targeted large conifer trees new project was the result of two years BOARD of discussions and negotiations between officials, attending up to thirty inches in diameter. Forest KATHY AND JOHN BROESAMLE CONTEST public hearings, volunteering out in the officials announced their intention to ForestWatch, local residents, and Los &STAFF Padres forest officials. field, and filing appeals and lawsuits approve the project within sixty days, “Mountains are in our blood,” state John and when all other efforts fail. without preparing an Environmental Kathy Broesamle – and indeed their lives are ForestWatch recently filed a formal letter Assessment or allowing any public representative of that statement. They met BRAD MONSMA, President LOS PADRES WILD HERITAGE expressing general support for the new- Camarillo But in recent months, politicians in appeals. in 1960 working as summer employees in CAMPAIGN WILDERNESS & ly-designed project and outlining a hand- Washington D.C. have whittled away at Yosemite National Park. Yet their apprecia- WILD RIVER PHOTO CONTEST ful of additional changes we would like PAT VEESART, Vice President the public’s right – both yours and mine ForestWatch sprung to action and imme- tion for wilderness came at an even younger Carrizo Plain to see incorporated into the final project. – to participate in decisions affecting the diately demanded that forest officials age spending time in the great outdoors with ForestWatch is Los Padres. In the waning days of 2011, prepare an Environmental Assessment. The Frazier Mountain area is a sensitive RUTH LASELL, Secretary pleased to announce parents that were avid campers. Ojai Congress passed a one-paragraph law We also urged officials to scale back the ecosystem harboring rare species like our first ever northern goshawks, California spotted that was buried within a 487-page fed- project and to ensure that any “forest Kathy, a Speech Pathologist, and John, a ALLAN MORTON, Treasurer Wilderness and owls, yellow-blotched salamanders, and eral budget bill called the Consolidated thinning” would be done for scientific retired Professor of American History, moved Santa Barbara Wild River Photo lodgepole chipmunks. The utmost care Appropriations Act. and ecological reasons, not for commer- to the Ojai Valley in 1987, an area they chose Contest. All levels cial profit. must be taken not to disturb this ecosys- LOUIS ANDALORO of photographers for its natural beauty and openness. Santa Barbara The new law eliminates the public’s tem, and any forest restoration activities are invited to head out into the Los right to appeal the approval of most After going back to the drawing board, must be based on sound science. PETER CASTELLANOS Padres National Forest to capture imag- They are now deeply immersed in protect- development and resource extraction in 2010 forest officials completed an ing the greater Ojai Valley through their Santa Barbara es of existing and proposed wilderness ForestWatch will continue to work with activities on national forest lands. For Environmental Assessment for the founding and development of the Ojai Valley and wild rivers. forest officials to ensure that this proj- DR. CHRISTOPHER COGAN years, the appeals process has provided Frazier Mountain project. But the Forest Defense Fund, a group working to raise ect protects rare plants and wildlife on Camarillo a way for the public to sit down with for- Service continued to pursue the com- a substantial community chest to provide The three eligible categories include Frazier Mountain and truly restores est officials and ask them to reconsider mercial timber sale, and ForestWatch financial support to those striving to protect JERI EDWARDS landscape image, wildlife image (both forest health. a particular decision. In many cases, this continued to oppose it. and sustain the environmental quality of the Westlake Village flora and fauna), and images containing appeals process successfully resolved people. The shots must be taken in or Valley. TERRI LAINE the public’s concerns, reduced envi- Oak View of existing or proposed wilderness areas ronmental impacts on the ground, and or wild rivers within the Los Padres It is no wonder that the Broesamles and avoided costly lawsuits. Los Padres ForestWatch found each other. FORESTWATCH STAFF National Forest. Each category will Doug Bevington Since joining ForestWatch in 2007, they be judged by website vote (People's Now, without this appeals process in Choice) and a panel of judges (Judges' have worked closely with us to give the local JEFF KUYPER place, groups like ForestWatch will need wilderness landscapes and the wildlife that Executive Director Choice), creating six different awards. to become even more vigilant in moni- The judges will also award a “Best in inhabit them a voice. “We regard the Los toring forest projects and plans. Padres as a unique resource and, like the Ojai DIANE DEVINE Show” for the best overall picture in any category. Valley, a unique remnant of California as it Development Coordinator The role that you and I play in protect- once existed,” said John. ing these magnificent lands has just Submissions may be made through July SUZANNE FELDMAN become more critical than ever before. Along with their two children and three Conservation Coordinator 27, 2012. Winners will be announced in The health of our local forest is at stake, our September newsletter. grandchildren, they hike and camp continu- and your continued support will ensure ally in the Los Padres National Forest, and MATT SAYLES that the public has a voice in how our consider themselves uniquely fortunate to Wild Heritage Project Coordinator Visit www.LosPadresWild.org for region’s public lands are managed and additional information. live just inside national forest boundaries. protected for future generations. And we consider ourselves uniquely fortu- MIKE SUMMERS nate and deeply grateful for their ongoing Wild Heritage Project Coordinator encouragement and dedication to our work as well. WINTER 2010 PAGE 1 ForestWatch and forest officials meet on Frazier Mountain PAGE 10 USDA FINAL STEELHEAD RECOVERY PLAN WILDERNESS Fisheries biologists present a roadmap to restore historic steelhead runs CAMPAIGN UPDATE to the Los Padres National Forest Federal legislation is introduced to expand wilderness and off-road vehicle recreation in the Los Padres National Forest ing grounds higher up in the watershed. In USFWS fact 90 percent of his- In February, Congressman Elton • Establishing two officially-sanc- would bring a host of law enforcement, toric habitat is located Gallegly
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