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 June-July 2026.
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EVENTS June-July 2026
June 3, 2026
Upcoming environmental events this summer: Green & Blue at Stow House, More Mesa exploration, Art, Condor Fest, Herbwalks, Film Festivals and more.
We have active wildlife corridors
June 3, 2026
California’s 30x30 program, launched in 2020 by Governor Newsom’s executive order, aims to conserve 30 percent of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030.
Exciting solar ordinance vs. oil
June 2, 2026
Currently, you can drill for oil in Santa Barbara County, but you can’t put a solar farm in the same industrial site. That is set to reverse this summer with an Oil Ordinance to prohibit new oil drilling going to the Board of Supervisors on June 23...