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The LPFA offers a variety of volunteer opportunities from trail work and trash pick-up to tabling and surveying. These events are updated regularly so check back often!

Interested in creating your own event to give back to the forest? Email us! We set up corporate events and work with several local organizations. We’d be happy to hear from you!

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Non-profit partner of the Los Padres National Forest focused on providing education, trail work and sharing the stoke of the Los Padres.

SANTA PAULA CANYON CLEANUP, MAY 30 It’s swimming SANTA PAULA CANYON CLEANUP, MAY 30

It’s swimming season folks. And our beloved Santa Paula Canyon is seeing the effects in full force. @santapaulacanyon and LPFA will be leading a cleanup and graffiti removal on Saturday May 30th starting at 8am. Come out and help keep this canyon clean! And enjoy the still plentiful water in Santa Paula Creek in the process.

Details on LPForest.org or through our bio. See you in SPC!

#lospadresnationalforest #cleanspc #packitinpackitout #leavenotrace #graffitifreeLP
PIEDRA BLANCA WORKING VACATION Come join LPFA for PIEDRA BLANCA WORKING VACATION

Come join LPFA for a backcountry Volunteer Working Vacation May 29 - June 7 on the Piedra Blanca Trail in the Sespe Wilderness! We’ll be spending the week high up in the LP working the trail towards Haddock Camp. This is a great location to spend late spring in the Los Padres – over 6,000ft high, mixed conifer forest, good water, and panoramic views. 

If you haven’t joined a Working Vacation before, they are an absolute blast. LPFA provides food, drinks and tools for volunteers deep in the backcountry while we work on brushing, crosscutting, and re-treading iconic trails. This project is part of our ongoing mission to maintain the #condortrail in Ventura County, and this section hasn’t seen work in quite some time.

If you can’t join for the whole time, NO PROBLEM! Check out the details on our calendar at LPForest.org or in our bio and come out and join the party.

#lospadresnationalforest #sespewilderness #lpfa_trailvolunteers #venturabackcountry
SANTA BARBARA CYN WORKING VACATION It’s Working V SANTA BARBARA CYN WORKING VACATION

It’s Working Vacation Season at LPFA! We’ll be hosting a mini-Working Vacation on the Santa Barbara Canyon Trail May 8 - 11 and there are still a few spots left for volunteers. Come out and join the party….

This lovely trail leads into the Dick Smith Wilderness toward Madulce Peak from the Cuyama Valley and is part of the Condor Trail in SB County. And unlike our usual Working Vacations, we’ll be CAR CAMPING for this one. If you can’t join for the whole trip, no problem! Check out the details on LPForest.org or through our bio link and SIGN ON UP. 

SEE YOU IN SB CANYON THIS WEEKEND!

#lospadresnationalforest #condortrail #lpfa_trailvolunteers #santabarbarabackcountry #wildernessstewardship
VOLUNTEER THIS WEEKEND! HELLO VOLUNTEERS! LPFA an VOLUNTEER THIS WEEKEND!

HELLO VOLUNTEERS! LPFA and our wonderful partners have 3 projects going on this weekend:

-Friday, May 1: Upper San Ysidro Trail, 8am-2pm with @montecitotrailsfoundation 
-Saturday, May 2: Potrero John Trail, 8:00am-3pm
-Saturday, May 2: Santa Cruz Trail, 9am-1pm with @runners4publiclands 

Lots going on and plenty of room for new and returning volunteers to join the fun. Checkout the volunteer events link in our bio or at LPForest.org to get the details and SIGN ON UP!

#lospadresnationalforest #lpfa_trailvolunteers #venturabackcountry #santabarbarafrontcountry #santabarbarabackcountry
VOLUNTEER UPDATES LPFA has a great run of volunte VOLUNTEER UPDATES

LPFA has a great run of volunteer projects coming up. Check these out on LPForest.org:

4/22: Tar Creek Cleanup
4/23: Wheeler Nature Trail Restoration 
5/2: Potrero John Trail Day
5/2: Red Rock Cleanup
5/7 - 10: Reyes Peak Trail Overnight

Details for all of these are listed on our website LPForest.org, or you can follow the link in our bio. Sign on up! No experience necessary, just enthusiasm.

#lpfa_trailvolunteers #lospadresnationalforest #trailstewardship #trailrestoration #trashfreelp
We can’t get enough of all the great water still f We can’t get enough of all the great water still flowing across the LP and those seldomly visited pools / falls too. Get out and explore while the gettings good…..

#lospadresnationalforest #farfromadashedline #getoutandexplore 
#staysafe 
#besmartoutthere
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