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Nature Organizations in Los Angeles and Southern California

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• Angeles National Forest Fire Lookout Association. " The Angeles National Forest Fire Lookout Association is a group of Volunteer citizens working in direct cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service in order to rebuild, reopen, operate and maintain a replacement tower.
• Angeles Volunteer Association (AVA). "The Angeles Volunteer Association (AVA) is a public service organization dedicated to the preservation and care of the Angeles National Forest. Our volunteers assist the U.S. Forest Service in its efforts to maintain forest resources and to provide visitors with opportunities to enjoy outdoor activities, such as camping, picnicking, hiking and fishing." 
• Audubon Society Southern California Chapters.
  El Dorado AS, Long Beach
  Los Angeles AS. "The mission of the Los Angeles Audubon Society is to provide educational programs and services that build awareness of the importance of birds and other wildlife and to promote conservation and restoration of natural habitats, primarily in the Los Angeles area."
  Pasadena AS
  Pomona Valley AS
  San Fernando Valley AS
  Santa Monica Bay AS. "We are a chapter of the National Audubon Society. Our territory goes along the Pacific Coast of Los Angeles County through Manhattan Beach, El Segundo, Playa del Rey, Marina del Rey, Venice, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades and Malibu."
  South Bay AS, Palos Verdes
  Whittier AS
• California Wildlife Center. "In a quiet area of the Santa Monica Mountains – on land generously provided by California State Parks – sick, injured and orphaned native wildlife receive quality medical care and rehabilitation, with the intent of releasing them back into the wild." 
• Huntington Beach Tree Society. "The Huntington Beach Tree Society began back in 1998 when then-City Council members Tom Harman and Ralph Bauer and resident Jean Nagy decided Huntington Beach needed more trees. When Jean Nagy volunteered as president, the organization began to proliferate. The group's idea was simple - increase Huntington Beach's urban forest while raising citizens' awareness of the benefits of trees and how they improve everyday life. Today those dreams are becoming a reality as the Tree Society continues to work with the city's Park, Tree and Landscape division. The partnership has since planted more than 1,000 trees in Huntington Beach.
  
  The group's current focus is reforesting each of the city's 66 parks. The reason for reforesting is the majority of these parks have not seen a new tree since the 1970s. The trees are needed to improve our environment and the visual appeal of Huntington Beach. Additionally, the Tree Society provides a Milestone to Memorial Tree Planting program, which adds even more trees to our parks. For more information on this program, please click here.
  
  The Tree Society continues to educate residents on environmental and tree-planting issues within the city and in the surrounding community. Not only are we willing to speak with service, school, civic and community groups, we also provide hands-on workshops to anyone interested."
• National Parks Conservation Association. California Condor page.
• San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders. "The San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders (SGMTB) is an all-volunteer public service organization dedicated to constructing and maintaining hiking trails in the San Gabriel Mountains' Angeles National Forest in Southern California."
• Santa Monica Mountains Trail Council. "The Trails Council has been the only organization devoted to representing all trail user groups in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Our volunteers are maintaining a trail somewhere in the Park almost every weekend year-round." 
• Sierra Club Angeles Chapter. "John Muir founded the Sierra Club in 1892 with 182 like-minded members, and immediately the Club set out to protect America's pristine forests and wild areas.
  
  For over a century, the Sierra Club has played a key role in protecting more than 132 million acres in America's national park and wilderness areas.
  
  To achieve its conservation goals, the Sierra Club works aggressively to influence policies and decisions affecting the environment of North America and the rest of the world.
  
  As issues broaden, the Sierra Club's goals broaden. John Muir never worried about ozone depletion or acid rain, yet these problems now threaten the parks and wilderness areas he and early Club members helped protect. Environmental issues start in our backyard and reach around the planet: global warming and the protection of tropical rainforests are now major concerns.
  
  The Sierra Club's theme remains unchanged: "To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth, to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources, to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment, and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives."
  
  The Angeles Chapter of the Sierra Club welcomes your participation in its 93rd year of involvement in the enjoyment and protection of our planet's environment. The Angeles Chapter spans Los Angeles and Orange Counties in Southern California, has 58,000 of the Sierra Club's 750,000 members, many hard working volunteers and staff, 16 regional groups (organized by zip code),. 32 recreational sections and committees (organized by similar interests) and 32 conservation campaigns, committees, task forces, and action entities."
• Temescal Canyon Association. "Temescal Canyon Association was founded in 1972 to prevent the sale of what is now Temescal Gateway Park to a developer with plans for a golf driving range. In subsequent years TCA helped preserve the canyon from a variety of threats including a cross-mountain road, and in the mid-seventies TCA was instrumental in creating a plan for what is now Topanga State Park. An on-going issue of concern is the potential purchase and development of four acres at the corner of Temescal and Sunset by the YMCA." 
• Ventana Wildlife Society. " The Ventana Wildlife Society (VWS) celebrated 25 years as a community-based private non-profit on May 10, 2002. VWS first began by rehabilitating and releasing wildlife at a 240-acre remote field site in the Ventana Wilderness. After 5 years, VWS began reintroducing prairie and peregrine falcons from this same location. Then, in 1986, a bald eagle restoration project began since a local population of eagles was absent for 60 years. VWS successfully restored this population in only 10 years.
  
  The Ventana Wildlife Society Research and Education Center was established in Big Sur's Andrew Molera State Park in January 1992. Inspired by the desire to reach out to the public, and with support from the California Department of Parks and Recreation, VWS expanded its programs to include environmental education, habitat restoration, steelhead trout monitoring and migratory bird research. The current projects include environmental education, California condor reintroduction, bald eagle monitoring, and song bird monitoring and research."  Comment:  This organization is not located in the Los Angeles area, but it does work with the California Condor which ranges into the Los Angeles County area.