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Key Documents:

FLP press rease announcing legal action on access to Lafferty gate (PDF)

"Press backgrounder"; a concise history and status of the Lafferty issue

Information about the Mitsui trail offer and its significance for Lafferty Park: press coverage, map, photos, background

Letter guidelines for writing to key elected officials and newspapers

Analysis of safety issues on Sonoma Mountain Road, with a proposal for lower-cost traffic-calming solutions by Dr. Joern Kroll (also in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format)

More documents

Friends of Lafferty Park is a Petaluma-based volunteer organization supporting the City of Petaluma's plans for a wilderness park at the old Lafferty Ranch atop Sonoma Mountain. Our mission is to develop, maintain, and improve Petaluma's Lafferty Park and enhance the experience of park visitors through volunteerism, fund-raising, and education.

FLP files legal action to establish right of access to Lafferty from the public road

Gate to Lafferty Ranch from Sonoma Mountain RoadOn January 31, 2013, Friends of Lafferty Park (FLP) initiated a "quiet title" legal action to clarify the public right of way access issue to Petaluma city-owned Lafferty Ranch on Sonoma Mountain. More in FLP's press release (PDF).


Contemplative hiker on upper Lafferty Park meadow.  Photo by Bruce Hagen.

"Let children walk with Nature."
- John Muir


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