Wetlands/Uplands

LAWSUIT FILED TO CHALLENGE THE 2021 BALLONA WETLANDS “RESTORATION” PROJECT: Grassroots Coalition and Ballona Ecosystem Education Project (BEEP) Press Release

Submitted on Mon, 02/01/2021 - 17:18

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 1, 2021 LOS ANGELES, CA

Grassroots Coalition and Ballona Ecosystem Education Project (BEEP) Press Release
Contact: Grassroots Coalition (GC)
Jeanette Vosburg, Outreach Coordinator, 310-721-3512
Los Angeles, CA 90066

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How Hazardous is too Hazardous? SoCal Gas Underground Storage Operations

Submitted on Thu, 11/12/2020 - 10:55

SoCal Gas' own documentation of their gas leakage, migration and expansion beyond their approved boundaries.

Who knew what? Was the City of Los Angeles informed? Was the Public informed by SoCalGas?

2014 California Coastal Commission Letter to Playa Capital and California Department Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) about Two Unpermitted Drains (Coastal Act Violation) in the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve

Submitted on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 10:58

2014 California Coastal Commission Letter from Andrew Willis, Coastal Commission Enforcement Officer, to Playa Capital and California Department Fish & Wildlife (CDFW).

Grassroots Coalition (GC) later sued Playa Capital, LLC and CDFW and prevailed in order to enforce the Coastal Commission's request which later became an order.

2017 California Department of Fish & Wildlife, (CDFW) Betty Courtney Cites Harm to Ballona Due to Reduced Water Flow From Playa Vista

Submitted on Mon, 03/23/2020 - 10:34

From: Patricia Mcpherson
To: Andrew Willis <andrew.willis@coastal.ca.gov>; Todd Cardiff

Understanding Ballona.

Submitted on Thu, 03/19/2020 - 09:03

Stop drying out Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve! Stop Playa Vista's confiscation and throw away of Ballona's freshwater resources.

Read more about Understanding Ballona.
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Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems. How can we manage groundwater to benefit both people and nature? Vimeo Author Brynn Pewtherer

Submitted on Mon, 03/16/2020 - 11:54

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems
https://vimeo.com/242821521 - 44 second video

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems from Brynn Pewtherer on Vimeo.

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE (CDFW) STILL DRAINING BALLONA WETLANDS ECOLOGICAL RESERVE - 2020 Press Coverage

Submitted on Tue, 02/11/2020 - 12:27

For Immediate Release
URL: GrassrootsCoalition.org

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE (CDFW)
STILL DRAINING BALLONA WETLANDS ECOLOGICAL RESERVE

CDFW states it's an active participant on the Board of the Ballona Conservancy, Playa Vista's private business that is Dewatering, Diverting and Throwing Away Ballona's Freshwater.

Southern Sierra News about Ballona CALIFORNIA DEPT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE: BALLONA BETRAYAL OF PUBLIC TRUST 1/21/2020

Submitted on Tue, 02/11/2020 - 10:59

Southern Sierra News about Ballona

CALIFORNIA DEPT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE: BALLONA BETRAYAL OF PUBLIC TRUST

Playa Vista Buyers Will Test Capability of Methane Shield

Submitted on Thu, 01/09/2020 - 22:05

Grassroots Coalition
11924 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90066

Contact: Jeanette Vosburg
(310) 636-3518

January 6, 2003

Playa Vista Buyers Will Test Capability of Methane Shield
Critics call high-tech safeguards unproven. Courts back experts who devised system.

Limberlost in Geneva, Indiana - Originally 13,000 acres of Wetlands - Now 1800 Restored Acres - 200 species of Birds

Submitted on Sun, 12/01/2019 - 15:34

Invitation to Limberlost - A Musical Performed in Hermosa Beach in April 23, 2019
Selections from a musical production by Helen Slayton-Hughes and Dana Lewis Powell based on Gene Stratton-Porter's 1909 novel Girl of the Limberlost and on the wetlands restoration project at the Limberlost Swamp in Indiana. St.Cross Episcopal Church, Hermosa Beach, CA

2014 California Coastal Commission Letter from Andrew Willis, Coastal Commission Enforcement Officer, to Playa Capital and California Department Fish & Wildlife (CDFW).

Grassroots Coalition (GC) later sued Playa Capital, LLC and CDFW and prevailed in order to enforce the Coastal Commission's request which later became an order.

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