The Chimineas Ranch Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting the Chimineas Ranch Units of the Carrizo Plain Ecological Reserve, a state owned ecologically sensitive property of approximately 30,000 acres adjacent to but not part of the Carrizo Plains National Monument. The Chimineas Ranch once occupied over 50,000 acres in both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties including an ancient Spanish land grant and original homesteads from the late 1800's. Today the ranch is a California Department of Fish and Game ecological reserve with controlled public access.

SLOPE painters have been visiting the Ranch during the past year, creating works showing the ranch in it's various seasons, contrasting terrain and it's amazing wildlife.