This just in from the Bolsa Chica Conservancy—
The Orange County Board of Supervisors approved an option agreement and lease during a March 17 meeting for an interpretive center at the Bolsa Chica wetlands. The Conservancy announced its plans to develop and construct a permanent interpretive center at the Harriett M. Wieder Regional Park in conjunction with the agreement.
The new center will provide enhanced interpretice educational facilities to the public, including multi-purpose exhibit halls, classrooms, laboratories for hans-on science activities, viewing docks for birding and wildlife, restoration and native discover gardens.
The park is located at the eastern edge of the Bolsa Chica wetlands overlooking the recently completed wetlands resotoration project and the new ocean inlet.
The county's General Development Plan and Resource management Plan for the park include a proposed center on land adjacent to the 4-acre playgorund, including trails linking Huntington Beach Central Park and Bolsa Chica State Beach.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Conservancy will leases 5.3 acres at the Harriet M. Wieder Regional Park to construct the center and ancillary improvement such as outdoor eduational and restoration areas, parking and landscaping. The building is expected to be about 8,000 square feet with space for lectures, classroom instruction.
