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Salt Creek Interpretive Trail

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Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
Salt Creek Interpretive Trail
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Salt Creek Interpretive Trail, California 92328, USA

The Ballona Wetlands are located in Southern California, United States south of Marina del Rey and east of Playa del Rey. The wetlands once included the areas now taken up by Marina del Rey, Venice, and Playa Vista, extending north to about present-day Washington Blvd. in Venice.It is one of the last significant wetlands areas in the Los Angeles basin, and is named for Port Ballona and Ballona Creek which now runs through the area as a flood control channel. In the 1930s the Ballona Creek corridor was channelized in concrete, thus greatly reducing the inflow of salt water to the marsh, and eliminating spring floods, which brought freshwater to the wetlands. Among the many groups dedicated to protecting the wetlands are the Friends of Ballona Wetlands, the Ballona Wetlands Land Trust, Grassroots Coalition, Ballona Ecosystem Education Project, and the Sierra Club Airport Marina Group.
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