The Lone Pine Canyon Protection Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization fiercely committed to defending the irreplaceable beauty, ecological integrity, and public safety of Lone Pine Canyon and the surrounding Wrightwood community.

We are a united force of residents, advocates, and experts committed to defending our mountains from destructive industrial development, environmental degradation, and irresponsible land-use decisions. Through community action, legal advocacy, and environmental accountability, we fight to protect our clean air, water resources, wildlife habitats, and the safety of the families who call this region home.

We believe our natural landscapes are not commodities to be exploited, but an irreplaceable legacy to be protected.The decisions made today will shape this land for generations, and we refuse to stand by while its future is put at risk.

Our mission is rooted in a simple but unwavering conviction: Some places are too precious to sacrifice, and Lone Pine Canyon is one of them.

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How You Can Support

Protecting Lone Pine Canyon is a shared responsibility. Preserving our quality of life, clean air, water, and wildlife habitats requires informed community advocacy and scientific review.

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The fight to protect our canyon is far from over. Your donations help the Lone Pine Canyon Protection Alliance cover legal expenses, challenge decisions that threaten our environment, and advocate for the protection of our mountains, wildlife, clean air, and water.

Every donation, no matter the size, makes a difference. Together, we can fight to preserve Lone Pine Canyon for generations to come.

Our Canyon. Our Home. Our Future.

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SUPPORT THE CAUSE

Wild Lands, Bad Plans Tee

$32.50

For people who like their canyon scenic, their air breathable, and their public process with fewer trap doors.

This shirt puts the whole thing in one vintage-poster gut punch: mountains, wildlife, residents, evacuation routes, and the small but apparently controversial idea that wild lands should not be fed into the profit grinder for the next 148 years.

It is bright enough to look friendly from a distance and sharp enough to ruin a quarry consultant’s lunch up close; not that they'd ever show face for that to happen.

It even comes in a bunch of colors, so you can catch 'em all and treat the design like your own personal lava lamp mood ring the next time the Land Use Department decides to crash a council meeting!

Wild lands, not quarries. Preservation, not profits. Difficult concept, apparently.

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Lone Pine Canyon Seal Tee

$30.00

If the name of this shirt made you expect some rare aquatic dog barking and clapping for fish being tossed to him by a clown or Aquarium employee in Lone Pine Canyon, congratulations, you may be qualified to review land use decisions for places you’ve apparently never visited.

There are no seals in Lone Pine Canyon. There are mountains, trees, wildlife, homes, narrow roads, evacuation concerns, and a proposed quarry project absurd enough to make “canyon seal” sound scientifically plausible by comparison.

Actually… now that we say it out loud, a seal in the canyon might still make more sense than this process.

Anyway, buy the shirt before we accidentally design that too.

Like the Officially Unimpressed Patch Cap, this tee is for people who do not need the loudest design in the room to make the point. It keeps the Lone Pine Canyon Protection Alliance seal front and center with mountain views, desert bloom, and the steady confidence of someone who has read enough of the process to stop being impressed by official-sounding nonsense.

It is clean. It is simple. It is suspiciously reasonable.

Also, thank you for letting us plaster our logo on your chest, your head, your back, your tote bag, and eventually probably your firstborn if this keeps going.

Pretty view. Clear message. Deeply unimpressed.

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Protective Instinct Tote

from $30.00

The nice one. Do not mistake that for harmless.

This tote pairs a simple truth with an acrylic-painted canyon background, because some may just enjoy responding to bad land use decisions with fine art, grocery storage, and pure unadulterated spite.

Available in three sizes for groceries, books, flyers, meeting notes, public records, emergency snacks, and whatever emotional support items are required to survive another “routine process” explanation.

It is scenic, useful, and just friendly enough to make the point before anyone realizes they have been confronted by a bag.

Also holds produce, which is helpful when it comes to groceries. Less helpful when it comes to political accountability, since the Planning Commission process hasn’t produced much worth carrying in any size bag.

Carry the canyon. Carry more snacks. Carry on.

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Protect/Worth Protecting Cap

$30.00

For people who know there are two stages of caring about Lone Pine Canyon:

The first is looking at the mountains while breathing deeply and thinking, “This place is worth protecting.”

The second is reading the project details and thinking, “Oh, hell no.”

This distressed cap covers both. The lighter version keeps it clean, scenic, and direct, with flowers, canyon views, and the insanely normal opinion that a mountain canyon should remain a mountain canyon. The black version looks like it lurched out of a time machine searching for more souls to harvest after seeing what 148 years of bad decisions allowed it to do.

Wear it on the trail, around town, or into the next meeting where someone tries to explain why a 148-year quarry project is somehow just routine paperwork.

Same fight. Two versions. Pick your volume.

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100% of proceeds go directly to the Lone Pine Canyon Protection Alliance to help fund public outreach, community education, expert review and the future of our town.

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MISSION

Our Mission

To unite, organize, and mobilize the Wrightwood community to STOP the Lone Pine Canyon Quarry and protect our land, our safety, and our future.

We are committed to raising awareness, demanding accountability, and taking action against projects that threaten the health of our residents, the safety of our families, and the integrity of our environment. Lone Pine Canyon is not just land—it is a living ecosystem, a cultural landscape, and a place we call home.

This is a community-led, nonpartisan movement driven by the belief that our voices matter and that our canyon is worth defending. We stand for the protection of wildlife, native habitats, clean air, safe evacuation routes, and the preservation of a way of life that cannot be replaced once it is lost.

We will speak up, stand together, and take action to ensure that decisions impacting our community are not made without us.

We are here to protect Lone Pine Canyon—now and for generations to come.

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KEY FOCUS

Oversight & Accountability

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Monitoring the proposed Lone Pine Canyon Quarry project and ensuring full transparency and accountability throughout the review process

Community Action

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Organizing meetings, outreach efforts, and public engagement to strengthen community involvement

Strategic Partnerships

Building alliances with key partners, including environmental organizations, community leaders, and advocacy groups to strengthen our efforts and expand our impact.

Environmental Impact Review

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Analyzing documents and submitting formal public comments to challenge inadequate review and advocate for a full Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

Wildfire Risk & Evacuation Safety

Addressing the increased wildfire risk and the potential impacts to Lone Pine Canyon Road as a critical evacuation route, ensuring the safety of residents and emergency access is fully considered.

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Tribal Cultural Accountability

Honoring the historical and cultural significance of Lone Pine Canyon as part of Indigenous lands and traditional travel routes. Advocating for accountability in preserving areas of cultural, historical, and spiritual importance.