ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS Amigos de Bolsa Chica...

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.

The Bolsa Chica Conservancy Interpretive Center at Warner Avenue

and Pacific Coast Highway features a 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; from

9 a.m. to noon on Saturday; and from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Service Day is the last Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon at

the walk bridge. (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 meets at 9

a.m. every third Saturday of the month at the Warner Avenue parking

lot just northeast 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, meets 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, a playground, restroom

facilities, four lighted tennis courts and one volleyball court.