A future Salt Lake Valley park will feature wetland trails, an equestrian arena and a barn where Granite School District students can raise their own animals.

Feb. 3—SAN BENITO — Along swaths of grassy wetlands, George Ferguson's binoculars scanned across one of the area's best hidden birding havens. For more than 10 years, city officials worked to ...

More than 80 acres of wetlands and salt marsh have been restored at the San Dieguito Lagoon. Much of the area, which sits between Del Mar and Solana Beach near Interstate 5, had been used for ...

In a map, a red section shows existing progress on the Hanover Trolley Trail, while the green section marked between 2 and 3 is set to become a new wetlands viewing area along the trail.

Park officials announced the new trail in October, along with the completion of an 84-acre wetland restoration project. The area includes a mix of tidal salt marsh, brackish wetlands, saltwater ...

The project has 450 acres of managed habitat types to maximize wildlife viewing opportunities — seasonally ponded wetlands, hardwood forests, warm season grasses and open water habitat.

(Google Maps) Rouselle said part of the trail built within the wetland's buffer zone will be moved after a ground survey has finished delineating the wetlands in the area.

Outdoors UW Bothell/Cascadia Community College wetland trails Originally published May 31, 2007 at 12:00 am Updated May 31, 2007 at 3:23 am ...