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April 10, 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on Wednesday introduced a package of legislation to restore and expand protections for California’s public lands. Together, the legislation proposes new public lands protections for more than 1 million acres of public lands, including nearly 600,000 acres of new wilderness…

April 10th 2019 Today, Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA-24) and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) reintroduced H.R. 2199, the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act, which would designate nearly 250,000 acres of public land in the Los Padres National Forest and Carrizo Plain National Monument as wilderness. The legislation also establishes a 400-mile long Condor National Recreation trail,…

April 9th 2019 A soon-to-be-introduced federal bill would designate a quarter of a million Central Coast acres as wilderness and establish a new 400-mile trail that would pass through Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, announced his plan to introduce the new legislation Saturday afternoon before leading about 45…

Support Central Coast Heritage Protection Act Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, together with Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Kamala Harris, have introduced an important bill to protect lands and waters in the Los Padres National Forest: the “Central Coast Heritage Protection Act.” The bill, H.R. 4072 is officially co-sponsored by Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Thousand Oaks. The Central…