Volunteer to save the Whittier Narrows Natural Area from developers.

Meet the Natural Area.   Enter at 1000 N. Durfee Avenue, South El Monte, California.                                                             

Above left. June 11, 2008. Docent Naturalist calls to & locates Endangered Least Bells Vireo.

            (For 2008 Whittier Natural Area photos of the Least Bells Vireo see Updates.)

Above right.  A school field trip and nature walk concludes with learning about a king snake.

 

BIOLOGISTS SAY "DISCOVERY CENTER PROJECT INCOMPATIBLE IN A SIGNIFICANT ECOLOGICAL AREA". On May 5, 2008  LA County Department of Regional Planning biologists (SEATAC) met and voted to reject the Biological Restraints Analysis of Discovery Center.

 

NOTICE: Because of the holiday, Friends will not meet on July 6.  We return to our weekly meetings on Sunday July 13 at 1:00PM in the Nature Center picnic area.  Join us!

In Southern California "we don't have Yosemite, but we have small stretches of wildness that people really cherish." - Andrew Willis, California Coastal Commission patrol officer

(from the Los Angeles Times, April 21, 2008)