Friends of Ballona Wetlands


Friends of Ballona Wetlands is an organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the Ballona Wetlands through stewardship and educating the public. Friends partners with the California Coastal Conservancy and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Friends also partners with faculty and staff from a Catholic college and with Heal The Bay. Friends has been active since 1978, and legally continued their access in 2003, when the State of California Department of Fish and Wildlife acquired the private Ballona Wetlands.  . Public access improved when the Ballona Wetlands became public land. The Ballona Wetlands are located in Los Angeles County, California.

Activities

Their activities include providing input at government hearings, commenting on a wetlands restoration project, participating in science and research symposium, supporting the former Native American Indingenous cemetery at Ballona Discovery Park in the Playa Vista mixed-used development below the bluff of Loyola Marymount University, taking legal action protecting the wetlands, and formerly worked in the past with Marina DeBris, now in Australia, who developed an art-inspired educational event about pollution.
Friends also partnered with Otis College of Art and Design, as part of an Integrated Learning project in which students and faculty from many different departments work with local organizations on various community projects.