“This Land is Your Land – Who Decides the Fate of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve?”

The Westchester-Playa
Democratic Club 

is providing a forum for hearing about a proposed
restoration project by several government agencies in partnership with the
Annenberg Foundation to the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve. Several
state agencies, with no public scrutiny, signed an agreement
with the private Annenberg Foundation earlier this year for demolition and
alteration of the land and construction of a visitor center/animal adoption facility,
normally not allowed on State property. 

Our experts, Marcia Hanscom, Executive Director of
the Ballona Institute, and Roy van de Hoek, Science
Director and President of Wetlands Defense Fund, with Margot
Griswold, Senior Restoration Ecologist, will reveal details about the
controversy, and serious impacts to wildlife and alternatives will be
explained.