ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS Amigos de Bolsa Chica offers...

ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS

Amigos de Bolsa Chica

offers free public tours from 9 to 10:30 a.m. the first Saturday

of each month at the pedestrian bridge at the Bolsa Chica wetlands on

Pacific Coast Highway across from Bolsa Chica State Beach. (714)

840-1575.

Bolsa Chica Conservancy

Interpretive Center at Warner Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway

features marine aquarium and displays about wetland plants,

invertebrates, fish, birds, reptiles, mammals, ecology and

restoration. The Center is free and open to the public and school

groups from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 9 a.m.

to noon on Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday. Service Day is the

last Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon at the walkbridge.

(714) 846-1114.

The Bolsa Chica Land

Trust and the Sierra Club pass out information on the Bolsa Chica

from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the third Sunday of each month in the parking

lot on Pacific Coast Highway, one mile south of Warner Avenue in

Huntington Beach.

The Bolsa Chica Stewards needs help with its native planting

project at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve. The group plants

native plants, removes non-native vegetation, grooms trails, collects

trash and waters new plants. The group meets at 9 a.m. every third

Saturday of the month at the Warner Avenue parking lot just

north-east of Pacific Coast Highway. Information: (714) 920-4215.

The Huntington Beach

Tree Society, which works for the planting and preservation of

trees in the city, will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. the third Wednesday

of each month at the Huntington Beach Central Library, downstairs

near the coffee shop, 7111 Talbert Ave. Jean Nagy, (714) 564-1396.

The Preservation Society

of Huntington Dog Beach has monthly clean up days at Dog Beach.

Information: (714) 841-8644 or visit the Web site at

www.dogbeach.org.

PARKS

Edison Community

Center Park, Magnolia Street and Hamilton Avenue. (714) 960-8870.

Includes two lighted baseball fields, four lighted basketball courts,

a community building, six handball courts, a picnic area including

barbecue facilities, playground, restroom facilities, four lighted

tennis courts and one volleyball court.