Our General Meeting is Tuesday, January 26th. You won't want to miss it.
Steamshovel Slough at the Los Cerritos Wetlands.
Photo: Cindy Crawford
Dear Friend of the Los Cerritos Wetlands,
In the course of working for so many years to protect the environment, I have been privileged to meet a lot of interesting and passionate people. One of those people is Paul Arms, now President of the Bolsa Chica Land Trust. He has been involved with Bolsa Chica over a decade, and will share the story of Bolsa Chica and his love of the people who helped save this important Southern California wetlands.
The Bolsa Chica Land Trust was formed by a small group of Californians who believed that one of the last standing wetlands ecosystems in Southern California was worth preserving for future generations. The Land Trust now includes more than 5000 members from throughout California and twenty other states. Through hard work, community activism and vision, the members of the Bolsa Chica Land Trust engaged the public in the process of saving the Bolsa Chica ecosystem.
The mission of the Bolsa Chica Land Trust is to acquire, restore and preserve the entire 1700 acres of the mesa, lowlands and wetlands of Bolsa Chica and to educate the public about this natural treasure. The Land Trust conducts educational programs to build awareness about the role of the Bolsa Chica wetlands system in the natural and urban environment and to tell the story of its rich history. The Land Trust's Bolsa Chica Stewards have been working since 1996 on the mesa re-vegetation project. To understand the scope of the Land Trust's work, consider these facts: over 2,000 volunteers have spent more than 15,000 hours replanting more than 8,000 native plants on the mesa. Volunteers of all ages are bringing the mesa back to life. The Bolsa Chica Land Trust is still fighting.
Over the many years that I have known Paul, he has been unfailingly focused, cheerful, and optimistic, convinced that by working together people can win and prevail....no matter what environmental cause we are championing.
We are excited to share with you the news that Paul Arms will be our featured speaker for the Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust's upcoming Tuesday evening general meeting. I urge you to attend and hear, first hand, how smart strategy and hard work helped bring about the protection of the Bolsa Chica wetlands and how we too, by working together, can achieve the same victory for our local wetlands.
Mark your calendars and plan to join us:
- What: Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust General Meeting
- When: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, January 26th
- Who: Special Guest Speaker, Paul Arms, President, Bolsa Chica Land Trust
- Where: Belmont Shore Mobile Estates Community Center. Belmont Shore Mobile Estates is located on Loynes between Studebaker and PCH.
For more information or to RSVP, contact Elizabeth at ejlambe@verizon.net.
See you there!
Elizabeth Lambe
Executive Director
Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust
Join Our Birdwalk at Gum Grove Park.
Don't miss this opportunity to get outdoors and enjoy the places we are working to protect. Join our birdwalk and check out the Los Cerritos Wetlands from the Orange County side on a winter's bird/nature walk in Gum Grove Park in Seal Beach. Gum Grove Park borders on property that the Los Cerritos Wetlands Authority hopes to purchase. RSVP to Mary at eldoradoaudubon@yahoo.com
When: 8:00AM, Saturday, February 13th
Where: Gum Grove Park, off Pacific Coast Highway at the border of Seal Beach and Long Beach. Meet at the entrance of the park.
Directions from Long Beach: take PCH to Mar Vista; left on Mar Vista; left on Coastline; right on Catalina; left on Avalon; Avalon dead ends in the parking lot. Click here for a map.
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