The Passing of a Los Padres Legend
Hello Friends – Some Unfortunate Sad News to Share Today, The Los Padres lost a legend with the recent passing of our dear friend Rik Christensen. Rik, aka Ranger Rik, has been a regular along
LPFA Trail Work GivingTuesday
Hi Everyone – Sorry to inundate you with another #GivingTuesday email but we believe in our goal of restoring the Santa Cruz Trail and we believe that you as trail users should believe in it
Sespe Working Vacation & Exciting Santa Cruz Trail News!
Hello Friends – HAPPY THANKSGIVING! While there is much to be thankful for here in the Los Padres, we are most thankful for the 32 volunteers who helped out last week on our Sespe Working
Sespe, Sierra Madre and more! Come volunteer with us…
https://lpforest.salsalabs.org/oct2022newsletter?wvpId=4e72c95c-a4ad-4df2-a8a2-dcf6b54df2f6 Hello Friends, You may know that the Los Padres is a very large and diverse forest covering approximately 1.75 million acres of the central California coast from Big Sur to the Los Angeles County
LPFA Hiring & Sespe Working Vacation
https://lpforest.salsalabs.org/sept2022newsletter Hello Friends, We hope this email finds you doing well and perhaps with a little mud on your boots? September is supposed to be one of our drier months but fortunately we’ve had some
Los Padres Hunting Season & ERP
Hello Friends, Lots going on across the Los Padres at the moment! We’ll cover much of that down below in Forest 411 but first lets talk about deer hunting season. The busiest and geographically largest deer season
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT RATTLESNAKES
Hello Friends, We hope you are having a great summer and still finding some cooler trail time here in the hot Los Padres! LPFA recently asked a group of hikers to list things that scared them
Sespe Rattlesnake Bite
Local Los Padres backpacker Dan Susman was bitten by a Southern Pacific Rattlesnake in May 2022 while off-trail deep in the Sespe Wilderness. Dan is a friend of the LPFA and we were fortunate to
It’s Canine Companion Week!
Written by Dr. Emily Taylor of Central Coast Snake Services Rattlesnake Avoidance Training and Exclusion Fencing It’s Canine Companion Week! We have already advocated leashes on walks. Now let’s explore additional ways to protect your
LOS PADRES FIRE RESTRICTIONS &NATIONAL TRAILS DAY
Hello Friends – we hope this email finds you tired from a long Memorial Day weekend on the trails……The big news across the Los Padres Forest this week is the introduction of our first seasonal
