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Spring/Summer 2012 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 FORESTWATCH TRAILS REPORT . SONGBIRDS PROTECTED . BLUNT-NOSED LEOPARD LIZARD . PHOTO CONTEST FIRE LOOKOUTS OF THE SOUTHERN LOS PADRES . HAPPY CANYON GRAZING . NORTHERN GOSHAWK SPRING/SUMMER 2012 Printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper JOIN US! UPCOMING EVENTS ForestWatch Members' Gathering Benefit Artist's Reception Wilderness Photo Contest Deadline July 12 September 6 September 15 Craig R. Carey Mike Summers Join us for some tasty appetizers, wine Don't miss an Artist's Reception at The Head out into the forest to capture imag- and beer, and an opportunity to meet Sojourner Restaurant & Cafe featuring es of both established and proposed wil- ForestWatch report - Ten Lost Trails of the Los Padres - highlights widespread loss of public access local backcountry fan Craig R. Carey the beautiful work of plein air painter derness and wild rivers in support of the to the Los Padres National Forest - author of the new book Hiking and Jeremy Harper. This free event is open Los Padres Wild Heritage Campaign! Backpacking Santa Barbara & Ventura. to the public in conjunction with the Downtown Organization's 1st Thursday Three categories will be judged, land- This event is FREE to ForestWatch evening of art and culture. scape, wildlife, and images with people. members; come by and be entered to The "Best in Show" Category win- win a Patagonia jacket! Half of all art sales will be donated to ner will be featured on the cover of support Los Padres ForestWatch. our Fall 2012 Newsletter. Details at Contact [email protected] to RSVP LosPadresWild.org Keith Vandevere WILDERNESS PHOTO CONTEST "Best in Show" will be featured on the cover of our Fall 2012 Newsletter BASE Los Padres ForestWatch has kicked-off Contest prizes include gift certificates, our first ever Wilderness and Wild River photo development, camera equipment, CAMP Photo contest in support of the ongoing and outdoor gear, from some great local Los Padres Wild Heritage Campaign. sponsors including: The Brooks Institute, The July 4th holiday The photo contest seeks to bring atten- CamelBak, Color Services, Dexter’s gives us cause to tion to special places, diverse wildlife, Camera, Hooper Camera and Imaging, celebrate freedom and those enjoying our local backcoun- Lumnos, Patagonia, Russ Bishop and independence, try in existing wilderness areas or areas Photography, and Samy’s Camera. gathering with fam- that are proposed for new wilderness in ily and friends at the Los Padres National Forest. Photos will be judged on originality, tech- Hiking the Big Sur coast circa 1975 barbeques and pic- nical excellence, com- Three categories will position, overall impact STELLAR Jeff Kuyper, nics, celebrating the Executive Director history and tradi- be judged: landscape, and artistic merit. The SUPPORT BOARD OJAI WILD! tions of our country. wildlife, and images judges’ panel includes: with people. In addi- Joe Christianson CHARLOTTE & RONALD WILLIAMS & STAFF THANKS! Wilderness is just as much a part of tion to the “Judge’s - Jeff Jones, Lumnos Wilderness Photography this tradition as fireworks and corn-on- Awards of Excellence,” Having lived in the same Santa Barbara the-cob. For me, wilderness has always presented by the home since they were married in 1971, and - Ralph Clevenger, ALLAN MORTON, President EVENT SPONSORS been the ultimate symbol of freedom judges panel, there raised one son, Charlotte and Ron Williams Professor at Brooks Santa Barbara and liberty. Our drive, our ruggedness, will also be awards have grown to appreciate their surroundings Institute of Photography, and our sense of adventure are all rooted given for a “People’s more and more over the years. They “feel PAT VEESART, Vice President Ralph Clevenger in the challenges of wilderness – a place Choice” – determined fortunate to have landed in a location where Carrizo Plain Photography where we can go and set ourselves free by online popular- wilderness is close by.” TERRI LAINE, Secretary from the confines of civilization, even if ity vote. Additionally, Oak View - Russ Bishop, Russ only for a few hours. the judge’s panel Charlotte, a native Californian, moved to will award a “Best in Bishop Photography PETER CASTELLANOS Deckers - Boone Graphics Santa Barbara to attend UCSB in 1958, Santa Barbara Alternative Copy Shop I feel most free when I’m in wilderness. Show” prize for the and Ron arrived in 1962 from Michigan. - Tim Davis, Photo Earthrine Farms It’s a place where we can be self-reliant, best overall picture in Following graduation, Charlotte began a Editor for DR. CHRISTOPHER COGAN Behavioral Sciences Technology where we can pursue our wildest adven- any category. 30-year teaching career. After working as a Camarillo Patagonia, Inc. California Solar Electric tures and be beholden to nothing except physicist, Ron earned a PhD in economics Delicate Productions the forces of nature and a healthy dose of The contest goes in 1974 and since then has been a principal BRAD MONSMA - Los Padres ForestWatch staff Camarillo Fast Frame, Ventura leave-no-trace ethics. through September 15, 2012, and investigator in research projects focusing on Kenneth Volk Vineyards award winners will be announced on public health. FORESTWATCH STAFF New Belgium Brewing This concept of wilderness and freedom the LosPadresWild.org website and in Details, prizes and wilderness maps can be found at LosPadresWild.org Rock the Gavel is not a new one. President Theodore ForestWatch’s Fall newsletter, with the Outdoor activities have always been an inte- JEFF KUYPER Saucelito Canyon Vineyard Roosevelt wrote about the freedom “Best in Show” category winner being gral part of their lives, and they have taken Executive Director Santa Barbara Bank & Trust of wilderness, and in as essay titled featured on the cover of the newsletter. their early appreciation of the outdoors and Single Point Facility Management Freedom and Wilderness, the late turned it into action by supporting a number DIANE DEVINE Slaughter & Reagan, LLP Edward Abbey wrote, "We can have wil- of initiatives over the years to preserve open Development Coordinator Tim Hauf Photography derness without freedom… but we can- space in Santa Barbara County. The Thacher School not have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues SUZANNE FELDMAN Ventucky String Band Gulden Derek It was at ForestWatch’s annual event, Ojai Conservation Coordinator of open space beyond the cities." Wild! in 2007, where Charlotte was first EVENT HOST COMMITTEE introduced to Los Padres ForestWatch. The MATT SAYLES It’s a concept that lies at the core of Williams’ have been supporting our work ever Wild Heritage Project Coordinator Richard W. Alberts, Griffin & Rachael the ForestWatch mission. As you and since, including a 2009 benefit photography Barkley, Kathy & John Broesamle, Doug I continue to work together to protect show of Ron’s work entitled “Wildflowers of FORESTWATCH INTERNS & Lee Buckmaster, Peter Castellanos & wildlife habitat, free-flowing rivers, sce- Los Padres National Forest." Danyel Dean, Jesse & Trina Grantham, nic vistas, and outdoor adventure oppor- JON MONTGOMERY Bill Hart & Connie Eaton, Terri & Alex tunities, we preserve a landscape where When asked why they support ForestWatch, Conservation Intern Laine, Ruth Lasell & Robert Bonewitz, freedom and nature collide and thrive, they said, “In our younger days we made Tom MacCalla & Jean Kilmurray, right here in our own backyard. the assumption that governmental agencies JAKE SAHL George & Peggy Melton, Allan S. would fulfill the public trust by protecting GIS Intern Morton & Paula Steinmetz, Michael federal lands, but our many travels in the Mulligan & Joy Sawyer-Mulligan, Doug Los Padres National Forest have shown this & Angela Parker, Jan & Alan Rains, Bill is not always true. So we endorse LPFW’s & Jill Shanbrom, Margot Smit, advocacy for the public lands that should be and Martin & Elizabeth Stevenson protected.” PAGE 1 WINTERPAGE 2010 10 BACKCOUNTRY VOLUNTEER JOURNAL WRAPUP Stories from the backcountry that inspire the preservation of these unique wild lands ForestWatch supporters improve habitat and have fun! We’d love to have you on our next volunteer mission to create on-the-ground change LOOKOUT! sported fresh paint — related how the lookouts lost reads like a litany of his- along California’s Central Coast. Stay in the loop by emailing [email protected] Craig R. Carey, author of Hiking first standard lookout in the Los Padres tory lost: McKinley Mountain, Topatopa (then the Santa Barbara National Forest) Peak, Reyes Peak, Santa Paula Peak, Mt. and Backpacking Santa Barbara and was constructed atop Frazier Mountain Pinos, West Big Pine, Santa Ynez Peak, MARCH 24, 2012 volunteers have been working tirelessly Ventura (Wilderness Press, 2012) in 1917 (replaced by the current struc- Madulce Peak … atop some of the most What: Microtrash Cleanup to remove fences that restrict pronghorn Where: Middle Sespe Trailhead movement and make them more ponders the view from on high ture in 1934). It was a largely “home- notable peaks in our forest once stood made affair,” its cost totaling $590. these servants to security and fire pre- Who: 22 volunteers vulnerable to injuries and predators. vention. In a twist of irony, some of the This cleanup was our final push at Our days removing fences are drawing to HELPING Thorn Point Lookout In the spring of 1941 — with war loom- most iconic — notably the Reyes Peak ing — the US Army established the and Topatopa Peak lookouts — were Middle Sespe Trailhead in hopes of a close, since all stretches of fence that HANDS Aircraft Warning Service, a civilian arm lost as a result of fire (the 1932 Matilija keeping the situation from getting too can be removed have been. ForestWatch insurmountable, and it has worked! will continue to work with monument EMILY THOMAS Craig R.
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