Wirt Atmar wrote:
> There is a nice -- but fairly long -- history of the Los Angeles River on the
> web at:
>
> http://geography.ou.edu/research/killed.html
>
> ...in its 200-year transition from a swampy, high biodiversity forested area,
> a "cienega", to one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world to
> a sterile 51-mile long concrete culvert where nothing but discarded sofas now
> grow. This is invariably the history of "nice areas".
There are people working to change the L.A. River from an eyesore into a
community asset:
http://www.folar.org/
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