August Meeting – Santa Monica Mountains Task Force

The Santa Monica Mountains Task Force meets virtually, once every two months, generally on a Tuesday evening from 7:15 pm. All are invited! Call in to learn about the past, present, and possible future environmental threats faced by the Santa Monica Mountains, and discover ways to support our ongoing mission to preserve and protect them. Subscribe to the SMMTF mailing list to receive new meeting announcements, Zoom links and agendas.

Created in 1972, the Santa Monica Mountains Task Force is an activist branch of the Sierra Club’s Angeles Chapter. Armed with legal knowledge, trail building tools, and respect for our natural ecosystems, we seek to preserve these mountains for many generations to come.

Throughout the years, the Task Force has played a key role in the creation and development of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreational Area (SMMNRA). We’ve lobbied Congress, and coordinated with park planners and land managers at the federal, state and local levels. All such efforts led to the official creation of the SMMNRA in 1978.

We’ve put our heads, hands and hearts together with public officials to secure and protect more land. This includes discussions of open spaces, trails, and conserving important regions like watersheds, viewsheds, riparian areas and wildlife corridors.

We’ve also fought to elect political leaders who, in turn, fight to obtain new parkland and the highest levels of protection for natural resources. We take the battle to court, too — lawsuits we’ve initiated have proven key in either adding new land or stopping park-gobbling developments.