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. Service Day is the

last Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon at the walk bridge.

(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 non-native 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

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