We Did It!
Celebrating some of CLAW’s most recent achievements
Let’s Buy Laurel Spring
In 2024, CLAW conducted a successful $1 million campaign for the acquisition of the historic and ecologically valuable 2.5-acre property known as Laurel Springs, attracting more than 350 individual donors to purchase and permanently conserve the biodiverse mountain habitat home to puma, bobcat, and deer. It will remain an open space, a critical wildlife habitat, and a unique local park for the community.
Vote YES for LA Parklands
In 2024, CLAW’s initiative, "Vote Yes for LA Parklands," sought to secure funding and support for the maintenance, development, and protection of green spaces for two community facility districts in the Santa Monica Mountains. Funding these vital ecosystems provide essential habitats for wildlife, recreational opportunities for residents, and a refuge for urban biodiversity.
Measure HH For Healthy Hillsides
In November 2020, CLAW advocated for and ultimately helped pass Local Measure HH, which sought to protect and expand wildlife corridors and protect against wildfires in our hillside communities.
Wildlife Ordinance Advocacy
For the past ten years, CLAW has advocated for a groundbreaking ordinance to protect a pilot hillside district in the city of Los Angeles from overdevelopment. With support from multiple environmental organizations and local community members, we were able to re-strengthen the ordinance and bring it to the Los Angeles City Council in 2023.
Mulholland Corridor Advocacy
In 2022, CLAW joined the Hillside Federation and Los Angeles residents to successfully petition to block the LA City Planning Director’s move to slash public participation and review of the critical Mulholland Corridor. These in-depth reviews are critical in preserving wildlife corridors on speculative development sites, and currently exist as the the only city policy that is effectively protecting the environment in hillside areas.
AB 1788 - CA’s Rodenticide Moratorium
For over ten years, CLAW has worked alongside a coalition of environmental groups to advocate for anti-rodenticide bills in California. After years of work, the state bill known as AB 1788 came into fruition and was passed into law in January 2021. This bill placed a moratorium on the use of certain rodenticides in California. The use of these poisons has been directly responsible for weakening and killing California's wildlife.
Let’s Buy A Mountain
In 2015, The Laurel Canyon Association and CLAW initiated an agreement to purchase 17 acres of nearly pristine ridgeline in historic Laurel Canyon. This land is maintained as open space by the Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority in coordination with a conservation easement with CLAW that protects the land in perpetuity.
Canyon Fire Prevention
In 2015, to protect residents and wildlife habitats, CLAW influenced LA City Council to pass a council action updating its “no smoking” signage for our hillside and canyon communities in "very high fire hazard severity zones."