Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve (pronunciation: "Bah-yo-nuh"[1] or "Buy-yo-nah"[2]) is a protected area that once served as the natural estuary for neighboring Ballona Creek. The 577-acre (2.34 km2)[3] site is located in Los Angeles County, California, just south of Marina del Rey. Ballona—the second-largest open space within the city limits of Los Angeles, behind Griffith Park[4]—is owned by the state of California and managed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The preserve is bisected generally east-west by the Ballona Creek channel and bordered by the 90 Marina freeway to the east.
Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve is one of the last significant wetlands or marshes left in Los Angeles County, wetlands being "areas that are periodically, seasonally or perennially flooded that also have specific types of vegetation."[2] Ballona is a "fragile, self-sustaining bog, fed by both fresh and salt water…This and other major wetlands of the Los Angeles Basin, including Bixby Slough…have been largely filled in for urban development."[5] The value of Ballona is that "wetlands teem with life and are among the earth's most productive environments."[6]
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Ballona Creek channel and bordered by the 90 Marina freeway to the east. BallonaWetlands Ecological Reserve is one of the last significant wetlands or...
village of Guashna located at the mouth of the creek. Ballona Creek and neighboring BallonaWetlands remain a prime bird-watching spot for waterfowl, shorebirds...
Friends of BallonaWetlands (FBW) is a California non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1978 by a small group of friends, scientists and neighbors...
Ocean via a tide gate. Ballona Lagoon “runs for about a mile, parallel to Via Marina in Marina Del Rey.” The primary wetland is bounded by Pacific Avenue...
floodplain" that is the BallonaWetlands Ecological Reserve has been described as an “idyllic treasure.” Visitors to the wetlands “can see a few different...
million for controversial BallonaWetlands redevelopment". Daily News. Retrieved September 11, 2023. "A bad fit for BallonaWetlands". Los Angeles Times. September...
Ocean Park district of Santa Monica; and south along Ballona Creek through Venice, the BallonaWetlands, and present day Marina del Rey, Playa Vista, and...
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helping in attempts to preserve the BallonaWetlands in southern California and working with the BallonaWetlands Trust to sue the Playa Vista community...
connecting to Muscle Beach, Venice Canal Historic District, Marina del Rey, BallonaWetlands and Los Angeles International Airport, and its proximity to historic...
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against the 'Westchester Bluffs' near the BallonaWetlands estuary and by the historic natural course of Ballona Creek.[citation needed] In the 1990s, the...
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Creek (California), a watercourse in California that empties into BallonaWetlands Bluff Creek (Des Moines River tributary), a stream in Iowa Bluff Creek...
build a harbor and settlement at Port Ballona, at what is now considered Playa Del Rey and the greater BallonaWetlands complex. According to another source...
works with various anti-pollution organizations, such as Friends of BallonaWetlands, 5 Gyres, RuckusRoots, the United Nations Special Assembly on Climate...
Creek (California), a watercourse in California that empties into BallonaWetlands Bluff Creek (Des Moines River tributary), a stream in Iowa Bluff Creek...
2013, the El Segundo blue was discovered living and breeding in the BallonaWetlands, and its range now extends south to the Palos Verdes Peninsula and...
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is also not to be confused with Suangna. The Tongva referred to the BallonaWetlands as Pwinukipar, meaning "full of water." Another alternate name may...
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