Just three miles off of Interstate 80, Castle Peak Potential Wilderness is among the most scenic areas in the Tahoe National Forest. Home to extraordinary old-growth red fir forests and the little Truckee River, Castle Peak provides clean drinking water to residents of Nevada County.

California Wild Heritage Campaign

CWC is working hard for the passage of legislation designating new wilderness areas and wild and scenic rivers in California.

Defense of the Wild

Since 1976, CWC has been working to ensure ecologically sound management of California's public lands and potential wilderness. Recent campaigns include opposing the weakening of the Sierra Nevada Framework. We are also addressing the Bush Administration's ban on more wilderness as well as the controversial RS 2477, with which county governments and others are claiming thousands of spurious "rights-of-way" to build roads across our national parks, forests, wilderness, and other public lands.

Desert Advocacy

CWC works for the protection of fragile wildlands in California's Mojave, Colorado (Sonoran), and Great Basin deserts.

Golden State Wilderness Campaign

CWC has launched this campaign to designate and protect wilderness on lands owned by the state of California. We have created maps of potential state wilderness and are now in the process of sending staff and volunteers to field-check areas eligible for wilderness protection.

California's Last Wild Places

The California Wilderness Coalition's Citizen Wilderness Inventory identified millions of acres of wild lands that still qualify for wilderness designation in California.

From 1997 to 2001, CWC staff and volunteers,along with our partner organizations, spent thousands of hours traveling California's federally owned public lands to determine the true extent of the state's remaining unprotected wilderness. In each National Forest and Bureau of Land Management area, we found new wild areas never identified before, as well as substantial additions to known wild areas. Many of these areas were overlooked in official government surveys and still lack protection of any kind. more...

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WHAT'S NEW
		California Desert and Mountain Heritage Act: Expanding and Conserving Riverside County's Wilderness Riverside County's ruggedly beautiful desert and mountain landscapes are world renowned—from Joshua Tree National Park to the Agua Tibia and San Jacinto wilderness areas all the way to Beauty and Cahuilla Mountains. Visitors flock to these wild, pristine lands to camp, hike, rock climb, hunt, horseback ride, fish, or simply to relax. Designating the region’s crown jewels as wilderness and wild and scenic rivers will keep these steep mountains, winding canyons, and rugged desert landscapes just as they are today. Congress must act now to protect these lands and ensure that they will endure in their natural state for future generations. Please click here to learn more about this landmark legislation and how you can get involved.

Watch CWC's New Video
		With the generous support of the folks at Channel G, CWC produced an informational video this year. To watch the video and find out more about the great work we're doing throughout the state, click here.