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Since 1976, CWC has been working to ensure ecologically sound management of California's public lands and
potential wilderness. Recent campaigns include opposing the weakening of the Sierra
Nevada Framework. We are also addressing the Bush Administration's ban on more wilderness as
well as the controversial RS 2477, with which county governments and others are claiming
thousands of spurious "rights-of-way" to build roads across our national parks, forests, wilderness, and other public lands.
CWC works for the protection of fragile wildlands in California's Mojave, Colorado (Sonoran), and Great Basin deserts.
CWC has launched this campaign to designate and protect wilderness on lands owned by the state of California. We have created maps of potential state wilderness and are now in the process of sending staff and volunteers to field-check areas eligible for wilderness protection.
The California Wilderness Coalition's Citizen Wilderness Inventory identified millions of acres of wild lands that still qualify for wilderness designation in California.
From 1997 to 2001, CWC staff and volunteers,along with our partner organizations, spent thousands of hours traveling California's federally owned public lands to determine the true extent of the state's remaining unprotected wilderness. In each National Forest and Bureau of Land Management area, we found new wild areas never identified before, as well as substantial additions to known wild areas. Many of these areas were overlooked in official government surveys and still lack protection of any kind. more...
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