A Texas-based oil company, Seneca Resources Corporation, submitted a proposal to the U.S. Forest Service to hydraulically fracture eight new oil and gas wells and lay 8,000 feet of new pipeline in and around the pristine Sespe Wilderness within the Los Padres National Forest in Southern California.

In August, at the California Democratic Party’s Executive Board Meeting, state party officials voted to adopt an official resolution protecting the Los Padres National Forest from the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing. Noting that Los Padres is the only national forest in California where “fracking” is occurring, and that a recent report by state oil regulators identified several significant and unavoidable environmental impacts from continued fracking in the area, the resolution urges state and federal lawmakers to curb oil extraction on public lands.

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