There has been a bevy of positive environmental events taking place in Santa Barbara County this fall. These included sheep mitigating against wildfires;
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Two years ago two non profit organizations banded together to prevent the approval of oil wells in the Carrizo Plain National Monument. They sued the US Bureau of Land Management and recently came to the agreement of permanently closing the restoration of eleven dormant oil wells and the approval for a new well.