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 Conservancy needs volunteers during nesting season

when they cannot pick up trash at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands, but they

can volunteer to help with a sand dune restoration project.

Volunteers are needed on the conservancy’s normal service day, the

last Saturday of the month, beginning May 31, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Groups may be scheduled for other days by calling the office. (714)

846-1114.

The Friends of Shipley

Nature Center meet the first Saturday of the month at the nature

center in Huntington Beach Central Park to help restore the area from

9 a.m. to noon. Please bring garden tools and closed-toe shoes. Free

restoration tours are also offered on the same day at 11 a.m. A

docent training program will start in mid-May. Information: (714)

963-1658 or https://www.fsnc.org.

The Preservation Society of Huntington Dog Beach has monthly clean

up days at Dog Beach. Information: (714) 841-8644 or visit the

website at https://www.dogbeach.org.