Orange County is strengthening its protections for the area’s vast expanse of wetlands, delicate but critical natural areas often imperiled by pressure for new development. The updated rules ...

Orange County's new state Department of Environmental Conservation wetlands maps will be discussed from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Orange County Chamber of Commerce, 30 Scott's Corners ...

Southern California from Ventura County to the Mexican border has lost 62 percent of its 33,400 acres of coastal wetlands, mostly to development and urbanization. Los Angeles and and Orange ...

IRVINE – Plants, dirt, birds and fish, all employed for Orange County. The first phase ... destroyed 90-95 percent of natural wetlands in the state of California,” Smith said as she walked ...

Re “Small Huntington Beach Wetland Deserves California’s Protection,” Orange County Voices, June 18: I agree completely with Garry Brown that the “Little Shell” wetland in Huntington ...

There was growing alarm in Huntington Beach and beyond over the ecological toll of a 130,000-gallon oil spill that left local beaches and some wetlands ... she said. Orange County Supervisor ...

Now Orange County is ... threatens the wetlands of Shingle Creek. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel) Adding to Capece’s concern, climate change has made previous flood maps outdated and ...

A pipeline failure sent at least 126,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific off the coast of Orange County, creating a ... impacts of the oil on our precious wetlands and wildlife,” Ms. Carr ...