The Friends of Dos Pueblos is a Non-Profit dedicated to saving one of the most culturally, historically and ecologically important places in California; Dos Pueblos Ranch.

Located on the Gaviota Coast, ten miles North of Santa Barbara and comprising 214 acres, the ranch was home to two thriving Chumash villages for thousands of years, Mikyu and Kuuyamu. The ranch includes a critical watershed; Dos Pueblos Creek, orchards, an onshore aquaculture facility engaged in restoration of endangered species, and so much more.

For the past three years, the non-profit Dos Pueblos Institute has operated on the land providing outdoor environmental education to children in partnership with multiple community partners. The Institute secured a twenty million dollar grant from the EPA to create a community cultural center, educational facilities, and launch significant community benefit programs related to youth and young adult workforce training in sustainable ventures and doing the work of connecting people to the land to heal the land and heal the people.

Sadly, the land is now for sale, this phenomenal community benefit project is on hold and, under the worst case scenario, it can be developed, blighting the Gaviota coast forever and setting a precedent for additional development on the last undeveloped coastline in Southern California.

Our community has a very clear choice. We can stand by idly and lose this land forever, or we can rally, get to work, and save one of the most valuable community benefit opportunities in memory.

Please, for the future of our coast, for the future of our community, for the future of our land, join us.