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 [...]

By Christian Alvez   Everyday, pieces of trash drift out of our watershed and enter the ocean. What doesn’t end up in our beaches end up in the Pacific, with many in the infamous “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” But the John Thomas Dye School second graders will have none of that! This year, they organized [...]

We’ve had at least FOUR different species of swallow flying around the Ballona Wetlands this Spring – it’s Swallow Madness! Sharevar el = document.getElementById(‘share-link-89547048556′);el.params = {title: ‘Swooping Spring Swallows’, link: ‘http://www.ballonafriends.org/blog/2011/05/swooping-spring-swallows/’, skin: ‘green’, content: ‘http://www.ballonafriends.org/blog/?ibsa=get_content&id=4718′};

By Christian Alvez, Friends of Ballona Wetlands Each spring, even as several species of native flora assert their presence in the meadow and upland areas of the Ballona Wetlands salt marsh, the invasive bloom and coating of seeded non-native species inundate the wetlands. This spring is no different, and with all the welcome rain over [...]