Our Mission

The California Wilderness Coalition defends the pristine landscapes that make California unique and provide clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for spiritual renewal. CWC is the only organization dedicated to protecting and restoring California`s wild places and native biodiversity on a statewide level.

Since 1976, we have empowered local communities and conservationists to be the voice for wild California.

With towering redwood forests, pristine mountain peaks, and rugged desert landscapes, the wild lands of California encompass some of the most beautiful and diverse places on earth.

These are refuges where eagles still soar across the horizon and salmon still swim from ocean to river–-lands where nature thrives and the human spirit is free.

California’s wild places offer a retreat from the frenetic pace of everyday life, and are also critically important to the ecological health of our region.

Wilderness provides homes to threatened wildlife, supplies clean drinking water to California’s growing communities, and contributes to clean air in our skies. The California Wilderness Coalition is the only organization dedicated to protecting California`s wild places and native biodiversity on a statewide level.

Through advocacy and public education, CWC builds support for threatened wild places, from oak woodlands to ancient forests and deserts.

We coordinate our efforts with community leaders, businesspeople, local organizations and policy-makers. CWC has more than 5,000 members and more than 200 member organizations and business sponsors including the California Native Plant Society, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Desert Survivors, the South Yuba River Citizens League, and the Los Angeles Chapter of the Audubon Society.