CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS COALITION
520 Third St Ste 208, Oakland, CA 94607 www.calwild.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

CalWild protects our state's drinking water and wild places by seeking new protections for streams and natural areas on public lands. Current campaigns include: the Sierra Forests, NW CA, the Desert, the San Gabriel Mts and the Central Coast of California.

Public Lands DefenseOur current political climate is decidedly unfriendly if not outright hostile to most environmental protections. This includes direct threats to the bedrock laws of wilderness conservation and CalWilds work, such as efforts to weaken the Antiquities Act through a review on national monuments, or the alarming number of legislative attempts to gut bedrock laws like the Wilderness Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. CalWild is maintaining pressure via our legislative and administrative protection campaigns and through our Public Lands Defense Network, which unites conservation groups across the state to be alerted to threats early on. The Network also utilizes each groups strengths to share information and defense funding opportunities and disperse tools and communications content to make a serious dent in any attempts to rollback public lands protections. Through these alerts, statewide activist events, and Stand By Your Lands workshops, our efforts are bolstering public input for more sound federal land and water management.

Sierra Forests CalWild is a leader in National Forest Plan Revisions throughout Californias 18 National Forests. The most recent wave of revisions started in the Sierra and in this fiscal year included the conclusion of the Inyo NF plan as well as the final stages for the Sierra and Sequoia NFs. Through advocacy, providing ground-truthed data, and developing relationships with Forest Service staff, CalWild is advocating for over 450,000 acres of new eligible wilderness and 500+ miles of eligible wild and scenic rivers in the two remaining Forests.

Northwest California's Mountains and RiversNorthwest Californias public lands contain significant tracts of roadless forested watersheds that are key to clean drinking water and sustaining wild fish populations. For five years, CalWild has worked with the community, elected officials, tribes, timber companies, and others in crafting a multi-faceted public lands proposal to Congressman Huffman, which was jointly re-introduced to Congress in April 2019 as the Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act and passed the House of Representatives in February 2020. Included in the bill are proposals for a 729,000-acre South Fork Trinity-Mad River Special Restoration Area, 262,119 new wilderness acres, and 480 miles of new and expanded wild and scenic rivers, as well as authorization to construct two visitor centers in Trinity and Del Norte Counties and plans to establish coordinated, interagency fire management in the region.

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