/**/ El Moro Elfin Forest

Welcome to El Moro Elfin Forest

	El Moro Elfin Forest is a 90-acre natural area belonging to San Luis Obispo County Parks and California State Parks. A four-fifths of a mile boardwalk loop, constructed in 1999, provides wheelchair access and protects sensitive habitat. Plant communities include coastal brackish marsh, riparian woodland, oak woodland, maritime chaparral, and coastal dune scrub. The forest supports more than 200 species of plants, 110 kinds of birds, 22 species of mammals, and 13 species of reptiles and amphibians. It is home to rare plants, butterflies, snails, and birds. Chumash middens occur throughout the Elfin Forest.

	Friends of El Moro Elfin Forest The Los Osos/Morro Bay Chapter of Small Wilderness Area Preservation (SWAP), after being the prime mover in securing the lands, "adopted" the Forest in 1994. In 2020, the Chapter changed its name to Friends of El Moro Elfin Forest (FEMEF). Our mission: to preserve and maintain the El Moro Elfin Forest Natural Area; to inform and educate about the natural history of the Elfin Forest and the Morro Bay estuary; and to promote and support scientific research in the Forest.

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