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 [...]

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-96169876354′);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′};

Please join us this Saturday, May 21st, at 11am for a nature walk and tour of the Ballona Wetlands. This is a joint program of the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission, the Playa Vista Farmer’s Market, Loyola Marymount University, and Friends of Ballona Wetlands. Click here to download the flyer. We will be co-hosting a [...]

It’s our great pleasure to announce that Friends of Ballona Wetlands will be a recipient of REI Santa Monica’s Holiday Giving Tree program! Beginning Thanksgiving weekend through Christmas Eve, REI stores offer their customers the opportunity to make a donation to local organizations doing outdoor conservation and recreation, and REI Santa Monica has chosen the [...]

D. J. “Duke” Dukesherer is a local writer and official historian of the Ballona Blog. He is the author of Beach of the King, The Early History of Playa Del Rey, Westchester, Playa Vista, CA, and ‘Round the Clump of Willows. Howard “Sonny” Hughes purchased 1000 acres at the foot of the Playa Del Rey/ [...]