Los Cerritos Wetlands Restoration

Spanning Long Beach and Seal Beach along the San Gabriel River, Los Cerritos Channel and Alamitos Bay, once a 2400 acre wetlands existed.  Today only two actual salt marshes remain and a number of seasonal ponds and alkali meadows.  There is an effort to protect, aquire and restore the remaining wetlands. 

See the Los Cerritos Wetlands page for more information. 

Reconfigure the Long Beach Breakwater & bring back the waves

Long BEACH.  Today we have no surf, emtpy beaches and polluted waters.  There is an effort to reconfigure the breakwater and restore the beach and surf.  See these links for more information.

7/27/09 Long Beach Press Telegram Breakwater Study article:
http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_12926837?source=rv

Sink the breakwater blogspot:

http://sinkthebreakwater.blogspot.com/2007/09/surf-in-long-beach.html

Surfrider Foundation, Long Beach Chapter on the benefits of reconfiguring the breakwater: 

http://lbsurfrider.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=52

Surfrider Foundation, Long Beach Chapter article on the Reconnaissance Study:

http://lbsurfrider.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=52

Coastal Conservancy study:  http://www.scc.ca.gov/sccbb/0712bb/0712Board11B_Long_Beach_Breakwater.pdf

Tejon Ranch New State or National Park A biological hotspot where four habitat regions join creating a unique environment of plants and animals.  The background picture on our site headers page shows the Tejon area hillsides in April bloom.  The developments will go forward but a large amount of land will become a new state park.  The Pacific Crest Trail which currently circles around Tejon Ranch will be realigned thru Tejon Ranch instead.  See http://www.tejonpreserve.com/ and  www.savetejonranch.org for more information.  To see pictures of the Tejon Ranch landscape which includes several lakes, seasonal and year round streams, forests, desert, grassy plains, valleys, wildflowers...to name a few, go to http://www.tejonfilm.com/   Antelope Valley Conservancy Preserving native habitats, watersheds, wildlife corridors and regional trails.  Learn more about AV Conservancy at http://avconservancy.org/FAQ.htm Santiago Creek Watershed Preservation & Restoration Project Areas located within the Santiago Creek Watershed include Limestone Canyon, Irvine Ranch Land Preserve, Black Star Canyon, Cleveland National Forest Trubuco Ranger District, Irvine Regional Park, Irvine Lake, Santiago Oaks Regional Park, just to name a few. http://www.santiagocreek.org/index.htm Huntington Beach Wetlands Restoration Wetlands preservation and restore projects from Beach Blvd. to the Santa Ana River by The Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy.  www.hbwc.org Save Banning Ranch Efforts to preserve 412 acres of wetlands, bluffs and mesa located along the Santa Ana River and Pacific Coast Hwy.  http://www.savebanningranch.org/ Coyote Hills, North Orange County Detailed information on the wildlife, native plants and vision of the preservation from the Sierra Club:  http://angeles.sierraclub.org/ocosc/coyote_hills.htm Another good description of the area:  http://hike-oc.com/west_coyote_hills.html Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy A successful organization that preserves and restores natural habitat in beautiful Palos Verdes Peninsula.  Nice open space, trails and great ocean views at PV.  Good information about their preserves, current open space projects, activities and education at:  http://www.pvplc.org/ California Wild and Scenic Rivers Act From Friends of the River: This act passed in 1972 to protect rivers with extraordinary scenic, recreational, fishing or wildlife values and protected a number of wild and scenic rivers.  Expanded several times since 1972 to protect additional rivers and wilderness.  Read more about the act here at the Friends of the River website.  May 22, 2008, a new bill was just introduced, the Eastern Sierra and Northern San Gabriel Wild Heritage Act, which will protect 52 miles of rivers and 476,000 wilderness acres--read more about this new act here at the Friends of the River website.