Bixby Marshland is a Delta wildlife area operated by the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts in

Carson, California Carson is a city in the South Bay (Los Angeles County), South Bay and the Los Angeles Harbor Region, Harbor regions of Los Angeles County, California, located south of downtown Los Angeles and approximately away from Los Angeles International ...

, as part of the environmental mitigation of

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. The space is in area and is a restoration of the old

Bixby Slough Bixby Slough (American English pronunciation: “slew/slu”) was an ancient wetland in Los Angeles County, California. Also known as Machado Lake, the slough was a "large freshwater wetland in the Carson, California, Carson-Harbor City, Los Angel ...

. The only other surviving piece of the Slough is Machado Lake at

Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park, commonly Harbor Park, is a Los Angeles municipal park featuring a golf course and Machado Lake and freshwater Delta wetland.Woodward, S. (1995, Feb 02). Storm debris threatens harbor wetland pollution: Foam cups ...

. Bixby Marsh is notable as a “unique

marsh In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p More in genera ...

habitat in an urban setting.” According to the Bixby Marshland Guide for Visitors, the Sanitation District and

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secured the land in mid-1970s, but "over time, non-native plants proliferated at the site." To restore the marshland so that it was closer to its original ecological state, many introduced species were removed, and others like

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were killed but left standing as

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, which are important habitat resources. A "large variety of native plants" were selected to re-vegetate the area. It is located next to the 110 freeway and the adjacent Wilmington Wash

flood control channel Flood control channels are large and empty basins where surface water can flow through but is not retained (except during flooding), or dry channels that run below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if a flash flood occurs the excess ...

at the southwest corner of

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and

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. Established in 2009, the park is open to the public for tours on the first Saturday of each month from 8 a.m. to noon (weather permitting) and by appointment.

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Los Angeles Sierra Club: Marshland in the Middle of the City
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