ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS Amigos de Bolsa Chica offers...

ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS

Amigos de Bolsa Chica offers free public tours from 9 to 10:30

a.m. the first Saturday of each month at the pedestrian bridge at the

Bolsa Chica wetlands on Pacific Coast Highway across from Bolsa Chica

State Beach. (714) 840-1575.

Bolsa Chica Conservancy Interpretive Center at Warner Avenue and

Pacific Coast Highway features marine aquarium and displays about

wetland plants, invertebrates, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals,

ecology and restoration. The Center is free and open to the public

and school groups from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and

from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday. (714)

846-1114.

The Bolsa Chica Conservancy needs volunteers during nesting season

when they cannot pick up trash at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands, but they

can volunteer to help with a sand dune restoration project.

Volunteers are needed on the conservancy’s normal service day, the

last Saturday of the month, beginning May 31, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Groups may be scheduled for other days by calling the office. (714)

846-1114.

The Bolsa Chica Land Trust offers free public tours of the Bolsa

Chica wetlands and mesa. The tours are offered from 10 a.m. to noon

the third Sunday of each month. Those interested should meet in the

parking lot on Pacific Coast Highway, one mile south of Warner Avenue

in Huntington Beach. For more information call (714) 960-9939.

The Bolsa Chica Land Trust has a table set up with wetlands

information from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the third Sunday of each month

at Bolsa Chica in the parking lot by the pedestrian walk bridge on

Pacific Coast Highway. For more information call (714) 960-9939.

The Bolsa Chica Stewards needs help with its native planting

project at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. The group plants

native plants, removes nonnative vegetation, grooms trails, collects

trash and waters new plants. The group meets at 9 a.m. every third

Saturday of the month at the Warner Avenue parking lot just northeast

of Pacific Coast Highway. Information: (562) 920-4215.

The Friends of Shipley Nature Center meet the first Saturday of

the month at the nature center in Huntington Beach Central Park to

help restore the area from 9 a.m. to noon. Please bring garden tools,

and closed-toe shoes. Free restoration tours are also offered on the

same day at 11 a.m. Information: (714) 963-1658 or www.fsnc.org.