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| Enacted by | the 102nd United States Congress |
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| Effective | June 19, 1992 |
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| Public law | 102-301 |
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The Los Padres Condor Range and River Protection Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-301) is a Federal law that established five new designated Wilderness Areas and three new designated Wild and Scenic Rivers in the Los Padres National Forest and Angeles National Forest in California. The law was sponsored by California Republican and Ventura County native Robert J. Lagomarsino while he represented California's 19th District in the United States House of Representatives. The legislation was cosponsored by Democratic and Republican representatives from districts representing the entirety of the Los Padres National Forest.[1]
Signed by President George H.W. Bush, the law designated 316,050 acres (127,900 ha) of new wilderness, expanded existing wilderness by 84,400 acres (34,200 ha), and designated 84 miles (135 km) of new Wild and Scenic Rivers. Most of the areas protected by the law provide habitat for the California condor, a species that was extant only in captivity as of 1987 when all 27 condors left in the world were being kept in California breeding facilities and for which the legislation was named.[2] Six months before the bill was signed into law in 1992, two of the captive California condors were reintroduced into the Sespe Condor Sanctuary, a protected area that would go on to become part of the new Sespe Wilderness in Ventura County, California.[3]
- ^ "H.R.2556 - Entitled "Los Padres Condor Range and River Protection Act"". Congress.gov. 19 June 1992. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ "California Condor". California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ Stammer, Larry (15 January 1992). "First Captive California Condors Freed in Wild : Wildlife: Reintroduction of rare species comes 10 years after a disputed breeding program was started". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 11 December 2017.