LandWatch Endorses California Wild Heritage Campaign The Board of Directors of LandWatch Monterey County has endorsed the California Wild Heritage Campaign. The California Wild Heritage Campaign is seeking to provide official Wilderness designation, and Wild and Scenic River protection, for California's remaining public lands and rivers. LandWatch is urging its members and friends to write to Senator Barbara Boxer, and to United States Representative Sam Farr, asking them to support this important effort. Their contact information is below. In Monterey County, the California Wild Heritage campaign is seeking to add 54,722 acres to the federal wilderness system, including all of the following: 1. Fred Farr 8,500 acres 2. San Carpoforo 8,000 acres 3. Black Rock 672 acres 4. Skinner Ridge 1,200 acres 5. Little Sur 1,300 acres 6. Coast Ridge 1,750 acres 7. Chalk Peak 7,100 acres 8. San Antonio 2,400 acres 9. Bear Canyon 14,500 acres 10. Arroyo Seco Corridor 3,100 acres 11. Horse Canyon 2,500 acres 12. Horse Pasture 600 acres 13. Chews Ridge 1,200 acres 14. Anastasia Canyon 1,900 acres In addition, the Campaign wants to provide permanent protection for the four following rivers: Arroyo Seco River Little Sur River Carmel River Tassajara Creek The California Wild Heritage Campaign is described in full on the following website: http://www.californiawild.org/. Additional information is available on the website maintained by the Ventana Wilderness Alliance: http://www.ventanawild.org/projects/wildex/wildex.html. The organizer for the Wild Heritage Campaign in Monterey County is Ilysia Shattuck, who can be contacted by email at: ilysia.shattuck@sierraclub.org, or by phone at: 510-622-0290, Ext. #220. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Ilysia! If you support the expansion of the federal wilderness system, to provide permanent wilderness protection for areas listed above, please contact Senator Boxer and Representative Farr. Senator Barbara Boxer 112 Hart Senate Office Building Constitution Avenue & 2nd Street, NE Washington, DC 20510 Telephone: 202-224-3553 FAX: 415-403-0100 Email: senator@boxer.senate.gov Representative Sam Farr United States House of Representatives District Office, 100 West Alisal Street Salinas, CA 93901 Telephone: 831-424-5963 FAX: 831-424-7099 Email: samfarr@mail.house.gov
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