Dear Mr. Schwartz:

---> As a California native I am writing to you to prohibit the exploitation of the 'people's' lands. These lands are to be secure and protected at all costs. These lands are 'not' corporations lands, nor should corporations ever have the ability to gain access, conduct, exploratory testing, or ever extract even a single pebble from our lands. 

You are the wardens that are to protect our lands into perpetuity for generations to come. 

Like in Virunga, the people will stand tall. The people will not back down. We will place our lives on the line to make certain you know we are serious inseparable companions with the whole, natural world. 

We are not in a war with other countries. We are in a war with inhumane greed derived from an apparition called 'corporation.'

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I'm writing to urge you to protect the Los Padres National Forest from the impacts of fracking and oil drilling. The Forest Service should prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement, and no fracking should be approved until we know more about the potential environmental and public health impacts of this controversial practice.

Fracking has come under increasing scrutiny from scientists, regulators, and the public due to concerns with groundwater contamination, surface water pollution, water consumption, and public health. It is not acceptable to approve any more fracking in such an environmentally sensitive area until the potential impacts are fully known, and until measures are put into place to protect our forest and our water supplies from environmental harm.

I also urge you to take all measures to protect endangered California condors and steelhead from the impacts of oil development. Please ensure that spills of oil and other hazardous chemicals do not enter Sespe Creek or its tributaries.

Again, I urge the Forest Service to prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement before approving any fracking operations in Los Padres National Forest. Thank you for your efforts to protect our forest and surrounding communities.


Shane Davis

Longmont, CO 80012