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The Ballona Lagoon is a soft-bottomed channel and 16-acre (65,000 m 2) [1] tidal marsh in the Marina Peninsula neighborhood of Los Angeles that feeds the Venice Canals with water from the Pacific Ocean via a tide gate. [2]
- Ballona Wetlands
In 1940, Howard Hughes bought the land below the Westchester...
- Ballona Creek
Ballona Creek and Lagoon are named for the Ballona or Paseo...
- Ballona Wetlands
In 1940, Howard Hughes bought the land below the Westchester bluffs for his airport. In January 1976, four months prior to the death of Howard Hughes, which would kick off the current era of Ballona's long history, the wetland was described by a resident of Playa Del Rey.
Learn how Friends of Ballona Wetlands stopped development of prime coastal real estate, then recruited scientists and Playa Vista developers to cooperatively transform a scrappy 51 acre area into a lush habitat for rare and endangered species in the heart of urban Los Angeles.
Ballona Creek and Lagoon are named for the Ballona or Paseo de las Carretas ("wagon pass") land grant, dated November 27, 1839. The Machado and Talamantes families, co-grantees of the rancho, heralded from Baiona in northern Spain.
The Ballona watershed supported a great diversity of wetlands during the mid-late 19th century (figure es-1). The La Cienega wetlands and the Ballona Lagoon complex accounted for the majority of wetland area in the watershed. Various freshwater ponds, vernal pools, wet meadows, freshwater marshes and numerous springs were found throughout
4 Δεκ 2018 · Historically, Ballona was much larger (2,200 acres), and formed over a much longer period (18,000 years). As the last glacial period ended, rising sea levels inundated the mouth of Ballona Creek to create Ballona Bay along the base of Del Rey Bluffs.
31 Οκτ 2015 · The primary goal of this project was to identify the characteristics of historical wetland habitat types and describe the historical form of major creeks in the Ballona Creek watershed.
