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Founded in the summer of 1998, the Ventana Wilderness Alliance is a California nonprofit corporation with IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status dedicated to protecting the wildlands of California's northern Santa Lucia mountain range. Our organization is composed of people from all walks of life with at least one thing in common: a love of the wilderness and a desire to help see to it that what little is left in our area remains as such in perpetuity.

The primary focus of the Ventana Wilderness Alliance is that of working with the various agencies responsible for the management of our local public lands, and offering our collective experience to aid them in making decisions that impact our forests. Our scope of concern is much larger than this, though, as can be gleaned from our Declaration of Purpose, list of current projects, and our organizational policies.. If, after looking all this over, you feel a sense of like-mindedness with our cause, then by all means come join us. We'd be honored to have you on our team.

The mission of the Ventana Wilderness Alliance is to protect, preserve, and restore the wilderness qualities and biodiversity of the public lands within California's northern Santa Lucia Mountains and Big Sur coast.