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 [...]

Attending the February 9th, 2012 Grand Opening of Jan Perry’s South Los Angeles Wetlands Park was a wonderful celebratory experience for Loyola Marymount University’s Center for Urban Resilience and their partners in ecology education, Friends of Ballona Wetlands, LEAPS Action Center Environmental Stewardship, and Urban Science Corps, a project of the Youth Science Center in [...]

One of the most important and fulfilling aspects of our work as stewards at the Ballona Wetlands is the opportunity to work closely with local scouts (both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts) to plan, develop and lead service projects here at the Ballona Wetlands. For local Boy Scouts seeking to achieve the level of Eagle [...]

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 [...]