LOS ANGELES COUNTY CAMPAIGNS


Save the Ballona West Bluffs

For more information and to see how you can help, contact Kathy Knight, Chair, Airport Marina Group, at (310) 737-1111.  The Airport Marina Group meets on the third Monday of the month at 7:45pm at the Community Building,
Chace Park, end of Mindanao Way in Marina del Rey.  Take the Marina Fwy (90) to Lincoln Blvd to Mindanao Bay.
 

The Ballona Wetlands story isn't over! The Airport Marina Group of the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter is working to put the remaining parts of the Ballona ecosystem not yet acquired by the State into public ownership.
The West Bluffs are also an ancient sacred burial and village site of the Shoshone Gabrielino/Tongva Indians, who occupied the Los Angeles area for 10,000 years before European settlers arrived. This is one of their last remaining sacred burial sites. 

The West Bluffs, a space the public has enjoyed for years, are currently threatened by a 114 luxury home development by the Catellus Development Corporation. Despite opposition by conservationists, scientists, Native Americans, anthropologists and the surrounding community, Catellus hasn't swayed from its destruction of the bluffs. In fact, Catellus' response to the public outcry has been to speed up the destruction. 

 

The Ballona Bluff coalition is in litigation against the developer, is looking for acquisition funds and is organizing the community so we may save this area.

   


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