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Giant Sequoias on the Camp Nelson Trail of Slate Mountain Proposed Wilderness Our mission is to add existing roadless areas of the Sequoia National Park, National Forest, and National Monument to the National Wilderness Preservation System.


Note: this website is not currently being updated. The campaign for wilderness continues however - so contact us if you would like to support protecting the Giant Sequioas and associated forests: info@sequoianet.org

Four areas from the southern Sierra are included in Senator Boxer's legislative proposal, the "California Wild Heritage Act."

The following areas were not included in Senator Boxer's bill, but the Sequoia Wild Heritage Project advocates their designation as wilderness in future updates of the bill:

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National Hispanic Environmental Council Endorses California Wilderness

January 08, 2004 - DUARTE -- The National Hispanic Environmental Council has announced the support of many in the Latino community for a proposed bill granting stronger protection of rivers and wild land in California.

Members of the National Hispanic Environmental Council, co-founded in 1995 by Manuel Hernandez, a Riverside engineer, said they would launch an educational campaign to get the word out.

Ed Navarro, a former state parks superintendent who now manages Olvera Street, the historical monument in downtown Los Angeles, said Latinos support the environment more than is recognized.

A statewide poll conducted in 2002 by Bendixen and Association, a Florida-based polling firm, showed that 81 percent of Latinos support wilderness protections, compared to 72 percent of Californians overall.

"We support the bill because of the recreational opportunities, the quality of life issues with clean air and clean water," said Navarro, a board member of the Hispanic council.

"But the biggest thing is we have a strong sense of family and of protecting something for the future generations," he said."

U.S. Representative Hilda Solis, D-El Monte, the bill's author, said as a child her family couldn't afford to travel to places like Yosemite National Park, so they went to the Angeles National Forest for weekend outings. She said it is important for everyone to leave behind the smoggy, concrete urban areas to get closer to nature.

"If we don't fight for this now," she said, "we will lose it."

Here in California's San Joaquin Valley, we have the same situation - an agricultural landscpe with air pollution nearly as bad as the LA Basin, and the need for local people to enjoy our nearby wild mountains without chaiinsaws and dirt bikes marring their natural beauty.

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