Friends of Ballona Wetlands hosted our annual Ballona Earth Day Celebration on Saturday, April 21, and as usual our participants had a wonderful time. Two added treats this year were raffle prizes… which both kids and adults seemed to thoroughly enjoy. We had a special guest appearance of Backwards Beekeepers, a non-profit dedicated to bees, [...]

Join us on Saturday, April 21st from 9:00am to 12:00pm for the Friends of Ballona Wetlands annual Earth Day celebration. All are welcome, but groups of 5 or more should register by sending an email to info@ballonafriends.org with your estimated number of participants. To download map & directions click here, and to download the flier [...]

Coastal Cleanup Day is once again upon us, and we are looking forward to a lovely day of habitat restoration at the Ballona Saltmarsh and Dunes, as well as trash pick-up along the banks of Ballona Creek. Please join us from 9:00am to 12:00pm to help clean YOUR river and restore YOUR wetlands! To register [...]

Life is never easy for the birds and fish on the seven mile stretch of Ballona Creek. Subject to human pollution, seasonal rain events, natural and unnatural biological time bombs set into motion, they live a precarious life on cement-lined sides and rip-rap and the hard and soft bottom of the Creek. That became all [...]

Restoration site before: And after: Lazaro Trinidad was grinning when he saw all the plants about to go into the ground along the Ballona Creek behind the Mar Vista Family Center’s new building at 5075 S. Slauson Avenue in Culver City. They were all native plants to the region, purchased as part of a grant [...]