UNDER CONSTRUCTION

The San Jacinto Wildlife Area (SJWA)

     SJWA is owned, operated and managed by the State of California Department of Fish and Game (DFG). We are a type "A" wildlife area reprenting the highest level of recreational use designated for the Departments lands connoting a heighten commitment on the part of the Department to increase the quanity and quality of public recreational opportunities on State Wildlife Areas.

Introduction and Purpose

     In October of 1979, the Department of Fish and Game, Department of Water Resources, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California executed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the mitigation of the State Water Project (SWP) wildlife losses in southern California. The SWP Mitigation actions were implemented pursuant to the Davis –Dowling Act of 1961. The act includes the preservation and enhancement of wildlife and public recreation as purposes of the SWP. The 1979 agreement designated existing SWP lands in southern California for wildlife mitigation purposes and provided land acquisitions funding, both of which contributed to the establishment of the San Jacinto Wildlife Area.