Under the agreement, the Forest Service will prepare detailed studies and consult with federal wildlife agencies to assess and reduce the impacts of target shooting on rare and endangered plants and animals, such as the California condor, California red-legged frog, southern mountain buckwheat, and Kern mallow. The agreement also provides for a temporary ban on target shooting and requires the Forest Service to notify the public about the closure, to post signs at shooting sites, and to take other steps to enforce the ban on target shooting.
The lawsuit was filed in August by the nonprofit conservation group Los Padres ForestWatch to improve the management of target shooting in the Los Padres National Forest. The suit alleges violations of the National Forest Management Act and the Endangered Species Act, and seeks to enforce a permanent ban on unmanaged target shooting that the Forest Service approved in , but never implemented.
The ban only applies to unmanaged target shooting. Legal hunting with a valid license is not affected, and target shooting can continue at the Ojai Valley Gun Club and the Winchester Canyon Gun Club, both of which are staffed and operated by nonprofit organizations permitted by the U.
Forest Service. Three other national forests in southern California have similar, permanent, bans in place. The Angeles, San Bernardino, and Cleveland National Forests have prohibited target shooting outside of formally-designated shooting sites for decades. In addition to the two permitted shooting sites in the Los Padres National Forest that remain open, shooters can practice their marksmanship at more than two dozen indoor and outdoor ranges located throughout the area.
An interactive map of these ranges can be viewed at LPFW. Visitors who observe illegal target shooting should immediately contact to file a report that will be relayed to Forest Service law enforcement officers and the local sheriff. In approving the new plan, Regional Forester Bernie Weingardt stated:.
The Los Padres National Forest has been historically open to recreational target shooting except where prohibited by closure order; however, with increasing numbers of national forest users, concerns for public health and safety, resource damage to areas where the activity has been concentrated, and the documentation of numerous wildland fires that have been caused by recreational target shooting, the Los Padres National Forest intends to develop a forest closure order based on Standard S36 in Part 3 of the forest plan.
The ban only applies to unmanaged target shooting. Legal hunting with a valid license is not affected, and target shooting can continue at the Ojai Valley Gun Club and the Winchester Canyon Gun Club, both of which are staffed and operated by nonprofit organizations permitted by the U.
Forest Service. Three other national forests in southern California have similar, permanent, bans in place. The Angeles, San Bernardino, and Cleveland National Forests have prohibited target shooting outside of formally-designated shooting sites for decades. An interactive map of these ranges can be viewed at LPFW. In approving the new plan, Regional Forester Bernie Weingardt stated:.
This means the Los Padres National Forest will generally be closed to recreational target shooting except where it is allowed in designated open areas and ranges.
The ranges are specific sites that are managed under special-use authorizations. This is not new in southern California. The other three southern California national forests the Angeles, the Cleveland, and the San Bernardino National Forests have restricted recreational target shooting to designated areas. Because of its rural character, the Los Padres National Forest has not seen the need to implement this strategy until now. For additional information about hunting on the National Forest lands, please visit the U.
A state hunting license is required for taking any bird or mammal. Hunters must carry licenses and be prepared to show them upon request. Guns and other equipment used for hunting must also be shown upon request. In addition to a hunting license, state and federal duck stamps are required to take migratory waterfowl, and an upland game bird stamp is required to take pheasants, turkey, doves, pigeon, snipe, grouse, quail, partridge and chukar.
No Hunting within yards of any occupied dwelling house, residence, other building, any barn or outbuilding used in connection therewith. The yard area is a Safety Zone. Or Palomar? Or even Big Bear? Like x 1 List. Google map search "Plaster city" or "Ocotillo" and follow some of the roads north and scout around. You will find lots of areas that will look suitable for both camping and shooting. Just check BLM maps to make sure youll are within the boundaries.
I have taken a Ford Focus up there by a 4x4 will get you to "better" places. Not a lot of "long range" shooting but plenty of areas to take yrd shots. Wait just noticed the trees thing.
There used to be some ranges near Temecula but no camping there.
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