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A developer’s option could take the rio out of Rio de Los Angeles State Park
[Updated with corrected development costs. Thanks to Melanie Winter at The River Project for the corrections.] View Larger Map Things are about to get a little ridiculous over by the RIO DE LOS...
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A tale of three wetlands
Image: City of Los Angeles Los Angeles proudly unveiled a new 9-acre park in South Los Angeles featuring a wetland that, I’m told, taps into the stormdrain network. And also receives tap water...
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Proposed Senate Bill to open up river access
Image: http://www.makeupcocktail.com/tag/rubber-duck/ Ready to ride the river? I got a nifty email from Friends of the LA River Founder Lewis MacAdams the other day, informing rivvies of state Senate...
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LA Creeks and Golf Courses – flowing by the fairways
It seems as though there’s almost always a creek on golf courses in Los Angeles – be it natural, concrete or underground. And having proposed daylighting and restoration projects at a number of our...
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A small role in a Big Parade
I had the pleasure of meeting up with the Big Parade today as they walked along the Los Angeles River. If you’re unfamiliar with this event, it’s a walk that meanders through Los Angeles stairways,...
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Explorations of the Colorado River #4: The Design Studio
Click to view slideshow. Done with our touring of the Colorado River (1, 2, 3) and speed-reading about its issues, my 2nd year graduate landscape architecture design studio dove into planning and...
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This Morning’s L.A. River Art
So… no posts for a month, then two today… oh well. On my way bicycling back from this morning’s groundbreaking, I stopped to do a river sketch. Los Angeles River – Elysian Valley – at 2 Freeway Bridge,...
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L.A. River Kayak Tour Video
Damon Nagami posted the video above at NRDC Switchboard. It’s an excellent, enthusiastic video review of just how fun the latest round of L.A. River kayaking tours are. It’s been great to see lots of...
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Reflections on River Access
Sepulveda Basin: Great Blue Heron and Kayakers, Summer (painting by Joan Wolfe ©2012) As the heat of summer slowly (hopefully) begins to wind down, so too has the second season of the pioneering L.A....
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Exploring the Bronx River
The Bronx River, as seen upstream from the Tremont Avenue Bridge A couple weeks ago, I got a chance to bicycle a few miles of the Bronx River. It’s not unlike the Los Angeles River: a very urban,...
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Upcoming Events: Fall 2013
A digital rendering of proposed ecological enhancement measures at the L.A. River and Los Angeles State Historic Park (from the L.A. River Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study) There are a number of...
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