And the Winner Is.Whose environmental victory is it anyway? Playa playa or pan or flat or dry lake Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. Capital, which is trying to develop the Playa Vista area around the Ballona Wetlands The Ballona Wetlands is located in Southern California, USA adjacent to Marina del Rey and Playa Vista. It is the last significant wetlands area in the Los Angeles basin, and is named for Ballona Creek which runs through the area. , took out a full-page ad in the Sept. 1 issue of the L.A. Weekly trumpeting trum·pet n. 1. a. Music A soprano brass wind instrument consisting of a long metal tube looped once and ending in a flared bell, the modern type being equipped with three valves for producing variations in pitch. b. a "major environmental victory." The ad details a recent court victory that allows the developer to begin long-delayed work to restore a 26-acre portion of the wetlands. "Playa Vista is thrilled to be able to soon resume the badly needed restoration of the Ballona Wetlands ecosystem," the ad proclaims. Some environmentalists beg to differ. "This is one of the worst examples of green-washing I've ever seen," said Marsha Hanscom, executive director of the Wetlands Action Network, which opposes the Playa Vista project. "This is no environmental victory. It's the prelude prelude (prā`l  d), musical composition of no universal style, usually for the keyboard. It was originally used to precede a ceremony and later a second, often larger piece. to the destruction of the marsh."
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