Excerpt from ballonarestoration.org:
In the heart of the Los Angeles coast, between a busy international airport, dense commercial corridors, tourist-packed beaches and marinas, and quiet residential communities, there is a pause. A pause in the concrete landscape. A pause in the city’s hubbub. A pause in the form of a vast open space: a creek surrounded by flat, empty lands. A rare sight on our urban coast.
The Ballona Wetlands were once a 2,000-acre expanse of marshes, mud flats, salt pans, and sand dunes that stretched from Playa del Rey to Venice and inland to the Baldwin Hills. Today, only approximately 600 acres of open space remain of the former wetlands. The land is owned by the State of California and comprises the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve.
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