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The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in California

Predicted likely to care is a guess from footprint in California, by the same match the STAND matchmaker runs, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• California Wilderness Coalition

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works California: spent years building the designation campaign with Tribal nations and now defends the monument as an intervenor in federal court.

• Friends of the Desert Mountains

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works California: coachella Valley land conservancy that helped establish Sand to Snow and worked with The Wildlands Conservancy on acquisitions inside the monument footprint.

• Friends of the Inyo

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works California: runs the Eastern Sierra opposition to the gold exploration projects around the Bodie Wilderness Study Area and hosts the Bodie Hills Conservation Partnership's donation and newsletter operations.

• Los Padres ForestWatch

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works California: has led opposition to oil drilling in the Los Padres region for two decades and is fighting the plan to reopen 400,000 acres to leasing.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

NMFS is proposing to remove the existing Cordell Bank Groundfish Conservation Area off central California and replace it with a new, differently bounded Groundfish Exclusion Area. The change aims to reduce overlapping regulatory closures and open more fishing opportunity while still protecting the Cordell Bank ecosystem's sensitive habitat. Commercial and recreational groundfish fishers operating off central California would be most directly affected.

NMFS issues these proposed regulations to remove the Cordell Bank Groundfish Conservation Area off central California for all groundfish fisheries and implement a new Groundfish Exclusion Area for all groundfish fisheries to protect sensitive habitat. The purpose of this proposed rule is to simplify regulatory complexity associated with overlapping fishery closures in the Cordell Bank area, and to increase fishing opportunity, while still protecting the Cordell Bank ecosystem. NMFS also announces the availability of a draft environmental assessment that analyzes the potential effects of the proposed rule.

Federal Register 2026-02043 ↗

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