RESCUE PERSONNEL COMBINE TO CARRY OUT INJURED HIKER

Montecito, CA--Rescue personnel form the Montecito Fire Department and Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue responded together this afternoon to help a woman who was injured while hiking. Around noon on Monday, March 14, 2011, emergency crews were alerted to a report of an injured female in her 50's who suffered an ankle injury after slipping off a rock on the Cold Springs West Fork Trail....
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Condor Trail, Environmental Awards & Trails Meeting

Trails Council Presents Environmental Award; Annual Meeting Features Presentation on Condor Trail. The Santa Barbara Trails Council’s annual meeting on this Wednesday night, March 9, will feature an in-depth presentation by on the Condor Trail by Bryan Conant, who is leading up the effort to get the 300-mile-long through route through the heart of Los Padres Forest established. Bryan will be...
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Hiking that’s easy — on the eyes

December's rains nourished the wildflowers, which have bloomed early and in abundance. LA Times Editorial, February 5, 2011 Karin Klein A friend in Seattle says that come midsummer, everyone in town goes a little crazy for several weeks. With good prospects for sun in an otherwise rain-drenched calendar, people head to the mountains, the islands, anywhere outdoors to drink in the prime but...
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Preparedness & Resource Availability For Tonight’s Storm

NEWS RELEASE — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA BARBARA, Ca. December 21, 2010 – As part of storm preparedness, the Santa Barbara County Fire Department (SBC FD) the Office of Emergency Services (OES), the National Weather Service (NWS), and other county and city officials, held a conference call today to discuss the potential of a significant rain event for tonight and tomorrow across...
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Agreement Protects 1 Million Acres of Roadless Areas in SoCal Forests

Home to California Condors, Arroyo Toads, Other Imperiled Species San Francisco — Four national forests in Southern California — including the Los Padres National Forest — will benefit from an agreement announced today between conservationists, the state of California, off-road vehicle users and the U.S. Forest Service to protect more than 1 million acres of roadless areas from...
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Baron Ranch Calling All Hikers

“Everything you see here was part of one big rock,” explained trail wizard Ray Ford last Saturday, pointing to a scatter of broken-up sandstone. He and volunteers Kalon Kelley and Rich Scholl were working with a hand-cranked winch and titanium rod to slide a boulder to the side of the new trail on Baron Ranch, where views of the three big Channel Islands were crystal clear, interrupted only...
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