John Broesamle inspires $5K Local Hero Award By Perry Van Houten Ojai Valley News, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 edition, page A8 The Turtle Conservancy is honoring Ojai Valley Defense Fun founder John Broesamle with an annual award for local high school students doing impactful environmental work. The inaugural John Broesamle “Local Hero Award” will support…

  Ojai Trees honored with OVDF’s Loebl Award Ojai Valley Defense Fund presented its James D. Loebl Award to Ojai Trees, at an event held at the Ojai Retreat and Inn on Oct. 9. As part of this award, the Defense Fund purchased a coast live oak and, with the help and expertise of Ojai…

Please click here to read the obituary for OVDF founder, John Broesamle, in PDF format.     A man of integrity and dignity, John embodied a vanishing American ideal; a committed, inquisitive, and passionate man of letters. He was an intellectual who possessed a rare kindness and wisdom  that only come to those who never…

Thank you to writer Perry Van Houten and the Ojai Valley News for this stellar story on OVDF founder, John Broesamle, published Friday, June 23, 2023. Click here to read in PDF format.   Ojai Valley defender John Broesamle moved mountains  By Perry Van Houten Friends and colleagues are remembering John Broesamle as a man…

Thank you to writer Perry Van Houten and the Ojai Valley News for covering the OVDF’s event with Santa Monica Fire Department Captain Matt Norris on Dec. 4, 2002. Capt. Norris led a lesson in rock climbing and rescue techniques for local high school students at The Thacher School’s rock climbing wall, then shared stories…

Thank you to the Ojai Valley News for featuring OVDF’s “A Day in the Country” special event on April 3. The article ran in the Friday, April 15, 2022 edition: Ojai Valley Defense Fund hosts field trip, OVN 4-15-22     Click here for more photos of the event. Special thanks to photographer Stephen Adams!…

Thank you to the Ojai Valley News for covering the launch party for OUR OJAI on Oct. 16, at the Porch Gallery in Ojai! The article ran in the Friday, October 22, 2021 edition.   More photos from the event:    

Their Ojai (and everybody’s) – Ojai Quarterly magazine, Winter 20-21 by Mark Lewis   Read the Ojai Quarterly article on pages 56 and 57 here.

Ojai Valley News, Friday, October 2, 2020 by Perry Van Houten OVDF Our Ojai in OVN 10-2-20   Click here to purchase copies of Our Ojai    

OVDF founder John Broesamle speaks on the various threats the Ojai Valley has faced over the decades in his talk, “Shangri-La is No Accident: How Ojai Protects Itself from Environmental Threats and Unwelcome Development.” John outlines the numerous threats the Ojai Valley has faced over the last few decades — which, he points out, always…

“Potter’s Journey” – Ojai Monthly article

Ojai Valley Museum Town Talk, “Defending The Ojai,” by John Broesamle & Mark Frost With thanks to the Ojai Valley Museum for hosting and Stephen Adams for filming this powerful event.

John Broesamle inspires community By Perry VanHouten, Ojai Valley News, Nov. 30, 2018 edition     An Ojai man who for three decades has fought to preserve the environmental quality of the Ojai Valley was honored at a Nov. 18 event attended by many of the valley’s environmental leaders. Peter Cantle, president of the Ojai…