The Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter of the Sierra Club serves California's Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
The Santa Barbara-Ventura Chapter encompasses a wide and unique diversity of natural resources. From our wilderness areas in the Santa Ynez Mountains to the coastal beauty of "America's Riviera" we have a number of America's most special places.
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Condor Call Newsletter
Your source for the latest environmental news for our region. Our mountains are the primary recovery site for the largest of all of North America's birds - the California Condor. Our Chapter’s newsletter, The Condor Call, is named after this magnificent bird. Read the latest issue for April-May 2026.
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Local News and Information
Sable, Trump and the Fight to Phase out Oil
April 2, 2026
In March the Trump administration ordered the pipeline that caused the Refugio oil spill to restart. Sable’s operation is unpermitted, unapproved and puts the entire coastline at risk, and Trump's order threatens the rule of law in the country. At...
Roadless rule action
April 2, 2026
Protecting our wildest and pristine forests is supported by people across political parties and across the country. But the Trump administration is steamrolling ahead with its plans to revoke a decades-old policy known as the Roadless Rule.
Butterflies on the brink
April 1, 2026
California is currently the staging ground for an unprecedented environmental rescue mission as conservationists race to save the western monarch butterfly.