Public Lands Day

Carrizo Plain
As many as 60 volunteers converged on the Carrizo Plain National Monument on Saturday to perform restoration work.
The volunteers worked to renovate a popular overlook of Soda Lake and a boardwalk on the lake, replace barriers around the parking lot, resurface trails and renovate interpretive displays.
The work is part of National Public Lands Day, [...]

Three Condor Chicks Dead

Three Condor Chicks Dead
By Jeff Kuyper, Los Padres ForestWatch
Three young California condors in our area were found dead recently, spelling bad news for recovery efforts. On the bright side, seven chicks were born in the wild in California this year, bringing the statewide tally to 89 birds.
In late July, biologists found condor chick #503 lying [...]

Carrizo Plain National Monument faces threats from inside and out

Carizzo Faces Threats from Inside and Out (San Luis Obispo New Times)
Saving the silence
Carrizo Plain National Monument faces threats from inside and out
BY MATT KETTMANN

The Carrizo Plain opened up like an earthen vault, its natural jewels spilling before my eyes, accompanied by serious silence. I had traveled a long journey inland by pickup truck to [...]

LA Times Julie Cart Wins Well-Deserved Pulitzer for series on brush fires

Julie Cart, who has been writing on environmental policy and issues as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, and who, with Maria La Ganga wrote the August, 2005 article on Marlene Braun’s suicide, has just won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism with a colleague, Bettina Boxall. Congrats to both of them. You can link [...]

Celebrate Spring on the Carrizo

It’s a good time to visit the Carrizo Plain.
[Petition for Transparency and Justice in the Case of Marlene Braun Please sign by clicking on this link. Thanks.]
Spring is a wonderful time in Central California, when the dry inland areas come to life:
t’s difficult, if you’re interested in the natural world, not to try to imagine [...]