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3 quick and pleasant nature walks to kill time around LAX
5 days, 1 hour ago

3 quick and pleasant nature walks to kill time around LAX

LA Times  

Editor’s Note: The Wild is going on holiday. If your loved one’s flight is delayed, or if you pick someone up and traffic is exceptionally horrible, I wondered, where could you kill an hour in nature near LAX? LAX Dunes Preserve Distance: Just under a mile Elevation gained: Less than 50 feet Difficulty: Moderately easy The LAX Dunes Preserve is …

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Joshua Tree too crowded? Try these 3 enchanting desert hikes near L.A.
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Joshua Tree too crowded? Try these 3 enchanting desert hikes near L.A.

LA Times  

The Devil’s Chair Trail at Devil’s Punchbowl Natural Area ends at a fenced-in boulder, one of the coolest lookout spots in L.A. County. Prime Desert Woodland Preserve walking trail Distance: 3 miles Elevation gain: Minimal Difficulty: Easy The Prime Desert Woodland Preserve is a 120-acre open space in Lancaster that’s open daily from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., weather permitting. …

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15,000-gallon sewage leak triggers closures at two L.A. County beaches
5 months ago

15,000-gallon sewage leak triggers closures at two L.A. County beaches

LA Times  

Parts of Venice Beach were closed after 15,000 gallons of sewage leaked into the ocean near Marina del Rey over the weekend. Parts of Venice Beach and Dockweiler State Beach are closed after 15,000 gallons of sewage leaked into the ocean near Marina del Rey over the weekend, the Los Angeles County Public Health Department said. Over the weekend, the …

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Column: ‘Enough is enough.’ Why RV encampments might finally start disappearing in L.A.
1 year, 3 months ago

Column: ‘Enough is enough.’ Why RV encampments might finally start disappearing in L.A.

LA Times  

A worker prepares to clean a portable restroom that the homeless use near a line of campers that make up the Ballona Creek homeless encampment along Jefferson Boulevard in Marina Del Rey on May 24. “We’ve got to be willing to stand up and say enough is enough,” said L.A. City Councilmember Traci Park, who ran on a promise to …

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Trash interceptor weathers the storms, sparing Pacific from thousands of pounds of garbage
1 year, 9 months ago

Trash interceptor weathers the storms, sparing Pacific from thousands of pounds of garbage

LA Times  

The Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor 007, shown in January, serves as a last line of defense against garbage that would otherwise be swept into the Pacific Ocean. After back-to-back January atmospheric rivers dumped rain on Los Angeles, the Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor 007 was in rough shape. Debris swept downstream by high, turbulent water had damaged one of the barrier …

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Column: The real and complicated reasons why Los Angeles still has so many RV encampments
1 year, 9 months ago

Column: The real and complicated reasons why Los Angeles still has so many RV encampments

LA Times  

RVs are parked along Jefferson Boulevard as Scott Culbertson, executive director of Friends of the Ballona Wetlands, gives a tour of the destruction from an encampment encroaching on the Freshwater Marsh in Playa del Rey in June 2021. “They don’t necessarily consider themselves as homeless,” said Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the incoming chief executive of the Los Angeles Homeless Services …

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How to see and help tiny blue butterflies in L.A.
1 year, 10 months ago

How to see and help tiny blue butterflies in L.A.

LA Times  

The endangered Palos Verdes blue butterfly. Other species of blue butterflies exist in the South Bay, and only the males of both the El Segundo and Palos Verdes species are particularly blue. Find their favorite plants, find these butterflies The trick to spotting the El Segundo or Palos Verdes blue butterfly is to know their food source. Maggie Jenkins, left, …

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Storm is an ‘extreme test’ of waste capture system protecting the Pacific from L.A. runoff
1 year, 11 months ago

Storm is an ‘extreme test’ of waste capture system protecting the Pacific from L.A. runoff

LA Times  

An interceptor, made by Dutch nonprofit the Ocean Cleanup, serves as a last line of defense against trash flowing into the Pacific Ocean by way of Ballona Creek. A November 2019 motion put before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors described the partnership with Ocean Cleanup as a pilot project spanning two storm seasons between October and April. Ocean …

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How I got beyond the concrete and learned to love my watershed
3 years, 8 months ago

How I got beyond the concrete and learned to love my watershed

LA Times  

This is the April 8, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. It’s about a natural gas storage field thousands of feet below the Ballona Wetlands, where the creek empties into the Pacific Ocean. “If something like Aliso Canyon were to happen there, it really could be …

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The next Aliso Canyon could happen on L.A.’s Westside
3 years, 8 months ago

The next Aliso Canyon could happen on L.A.’s Westside

LA Times  

A hub for Southern California Gas Co. infrastructure at the company’s storage facility in Playa del Rey, with the Ballona Wetlands in the background. Robert van de Hoek, president of the Ballona Institute, leads a tour near the Playa del Rey gas storage field, accompanied by Marcia Hanscom, the institute’s executive director, left. Pipelines rest against a bluff at SoCalGas’ …

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