Promote an environment beneficial to life through the protection and wise management of natural resources in the public interest.

League members became concerned about depletion and conservation of natural resources as far back as the 1920s and 1930s when the League undertook a study of flood control, erosion and the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Our positions on California state natural resource issues include:

• Agriculture
• Air Quality
• Energy
• Hazardous Materials
• Land Use
• Solid Waste
• Transportation
• Water

See also Sustainable Communities and Growth Management Action Policy.

Read the LWV national positions on Natural Resource issues.