Huntington Beach.(California; urban renewal)(Brief Article)

Sunset | November 1, 1999| | Copyright

It wasn't easy to save a wetland in Southern California. But it was worth it

It doesn't take much imagination to appreciate the pressures that Southern California's Bolsa Chica Wetlands has faced this century.

Once part of a vast wetlands system that extended miles inland, today Bolsa Chica is surrounded and, in places, invaded. Around it spreads the nearly 200,000-person city of Huntington Beach, whose tile-roofed homes and condominiums testify to Orange County's rapid growth. Housing developments creep to Bolsa Chica's fringes. Oil wells bob within its ...

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