Volunteer

Individuals who can commit for return visits can provide a great range of service: Monitoring roads, installing signs, leading hikes, removing weeds, assisting visitors, developing photo and video archives, gardening, and more.
Carrizo Plain wildlife

By 1987 public and private efforts to protect the Carrizo Plain as a single ecosystem culminated in the creation of The Carrizo Plain Natural Area, jointly managed by The Nature Conservancy, California Department of Fish and Game, and The Bureau of Land Management.

The Carrizo Plain National Monument was established by presidential proclamation in 2001.

The Monument occupies 205,000 acres in Central California, southwest of the San Joaquin Valley, between Bakersfield and San Luis Obispo.

In addition to the hundreds of individual members of the Friends that make contributions of time and money to further our mission, we encourage you to support the groups and organizations that are helping us achieve our mission.

Want to Get Involved?

National Lands Day Clean Up Projects 

National Lands Day Clean Up Projects 

Join other volunteers in clean-up and repair around the monument. Past projects include Visitor Center and Saucito Ranch Clean-ups, and fencing projects on Client Mountain and near Wells Ranch. The next project will be September 26, 2020. Contact John Kelly (BLM)  (661-391-6088), or David Chipping (FOCP) dchippin@calpoly.edu for more information. Such and drinks are provided by the Friends, but bring gloves.

Serve and Explore the Carrizo Plain

Serve and Explore the Carrizo Plain

If you wish to contribute to the protection of the Monument, let us know your ideas. We are interested in building our Board of Directors with people who have a great love of the area and feel they can contribute something. For example, we no longer have any representation of our Gateway Communities on our small Board, and we would value people who could produce informational materials, encourage Citizen Science projects, or anything else. Contact David Chipping at (805) 528-0914 or dchippin@calpoly.edu if you want to discuss your ideas.

About

Find out about Friends of the Carrizo Plain history, vision, mission, and values.

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Join

The Friends of the Carrizo Plain supports the managing partners in the Education, Interpretation, and Conservation of the unique resources of the Carrizo Plain National Monument.

Help

In addition to the hundreds of individual members of the Friends that make contributions of time and money to further our mission, we encourage you to support the groups and organizations that are helping us achieve our Mission.

Donate

In addition to the hundreds of individual members of the Friends that make contributions of time and money to further our mission, we encourage you to support the groups and organizations that are helping us achieve our Mission.

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