Posts Tagged ‘Long Beach’
November 2, 2009
Here’s a link to a project I’m working on, a rehabilitation of the artificial stream at the El Dorado Nature Center. Sharon Gates with the City of Long Beach is maintaining the project blog to keep the faithful nature center visitors up-do-date on the goings-on in the stream – the area being fenced off for public safety during the construction. Check out the progress!
The project will be using soil bioengineering techniques like willow postings, willow wattles, etc to stabilize some of the banks that have been subject to erosion over the years. Small areas will use rip rap or logs to shore up the banks where there’s a lot of foot traffic up to the edge – we want to keep this to a minimum and emphasize the ability of willow and other native riparian plants to hold a waterway’s banks. Huge quantities of the invasive Brazilian Pepper Tree have been removed, allowing in sunlight which will help the willow take root.
A lot of folks don’t realize the stream is artificial. The historical condition of the Nature Center area was likely a periodically inundated alkali meadow or fringe area of the wetlands that today are concentrated around Los Cerritos. Today’s Nature Center provides habitat for lots of birds, turtles and some mammals (including a coyote, I have heard).
My role in the project is pretty small – Restoration Design Group has me doing some construction administration, answering questions about design intent for the City and contractors, Bubalo Construction, who are implementing the project as a design-build.
Tags:bioengineering, El Dorado Nature Center, Long Beach, Restoration Design Group
Posted in Habitat and Wildlife, Now, Recreation, San Gabriel River Watershed, Stream Protection | Leave a Comment »
August 26, 2009
Briar walking (perhaps napping) on the L.A. River's Lario Bike Trail under the Pacific Coast Highway Bridge in Long Beach
Creek Freak is pleased to share the following emails from Tim Kirk who, with his daughter Briar, has been exploring the Los Angeles River. I really like what he has to say (below) about our waterways giving us some sense of place. He says it better than I’ve summarized it – read below.
I present his words here, though I’ve added a few links and interspersed some of his photos. Click on any of the photos to see larger images at Tim’s river photo gallery. Thanks, Tim for promoting my book, so I don’t have to.
In early August I received this email:
“Hey Joe,
Briar's first L.A. River Trip - in Atwater Village
I wanted to thank you for your excellent book on the LA River. My daughter and I are walking the LA River in pieces. We started when she was 5 months old and she is now 15 months. Our first treks were in Atwater Village and headed south through Frogtown. We walk 2-3 miles, looking for a place to pick up our trip next time. Having completed this, we then headed north and, in this fashion, made our way through all the walkable parts of the river up to Lake Balboa. We did a few side trips to tributaries along the way.
We just discovered your book. Our good friend, Dominique Dibbell sugggested it (she interviewed you when she was editing the Sierra Club magazine.) It has been a blast to read about the areas we have already walked. We are now headed south and have done two of your walks (Chinatown & The Estuary). We are also exploring the Arroyo Seco.
Here is a link to our flckr site with an ongoing photo essay of our journey. I hope you get a kick out of it.
Thanks again and if you see us walking along, say hey!
Tim Kirk (and Briar).
and here’s a second email I received in mid-August:
Hi Joe,
We’ve been busy on the river. We made that final trek down to the bay in Long Beach, which was a blast, and the reason for this note: to thank you for the excellent description in your book of the parking situation, and the byzantine trek from there to the river — I doubt we would have found it otherwise.
Briar along the Arroyo Seco in Highland Park
We had a fun hike today. We’ve been heading north on the Arroyo Seco, and finally connected with an earlier walk, at the Archery range. Next, we’re going to see if we can find a spot to continue, above the Rose Bowl. Here’s the link again, if you want to see some pictures.
This continues to be a cool experience to share with my daughter, even more so as she gets older — now nearly 16 months. I know that traveling the river has changed my head significantly, my geographical sense of LA has shifted and I feel a certain sense of connectivity between the disparate parts of the city that the river links. I’m excited for Briar to grow up with this awareness, which I hope will be part of her identity as an Angeleno.
All the best,
Tim Kirk
Briar rides the Rattlesnake Wall in Studio City
Tags:Los Angeles River, Long Beach, Arroyo Seco, photography, Down By The Los Angeles River
Posted in Habitat and Wildlife, Los Angeles River Watershed, Now, Recreation | 3 Comments »
August 12, 2009
Tags:Griffith Park, Long Beach, rainwater harvesting, fish, Homegrown Evolution, 6th Street Bridge, low impact development, trash, clean-up, greywater, bridges, Tapped, Whittier Narrows, Eaton Canyon, Bixby Marshland, North Atwater
Posted in Dominguez Slough Watershed, Habitat and Wildlife, Los Angeles River Watershed, Now, Other Watersheds, Restoration/Revitalization, San Gabriel River Watershed, Water Quality, Water Supply | 2 Comments »
April 1, 2009
Panorama Collage of the Dominguez Gap
It’s getting to be the best time of the year to visit the Dominguez Gap. I was there yesterday with Jared Orsi’s class from Occidental College. There were lots of wildflowers already in bloom – lupines (of many colors), poppies, tidy tips, and quite a few others that I can’t quite identify. The county irrigates the site, so the flowers should be blooming through April and perhaps longer. In addition to the wildflowers, there’s plenty of wildlife. We saw turtles, coots, ducks, swallows, egrets, great blue herons, and green herons.
Wildflowers Blooming in the Gap
The Dominguez Gap is an stretch of the Los Angeles River located in the north end of Long Beach. The Compton Creek confluence is there (on the west side of the river), but if you don’t know what you’re looking for, you’re likely to miss it. This stretch of river has an anonymous trapezoidal concrete channel, not unlike most of the lower river. In the Dominguez gap, though, there are low earthen side channels running parallel to the main river. Last year, the County Public Works department completed a project that renovated and re-plumbed the side channels, including adding a great deal of native vegetation. There’s interpretive signage, and walk and bike paths traversing the site. For an excellent tour of the site, see the Long Beach Natural Areas blog.
The main 37-acre East Basin linear park area is located on the east side of the Los Angeles River, extending downstream from Del Amo Boulevard to the Metro Blue Line. The Lario Bike Trail runs along it. (On the other, less accessible, side of the river, there’s an additional 14-acre West Basin, though it’s not quite as flashy.)
How to get there:
TRANSIT: Take the Metro Blue Line, exit Del Amo Station. Walk (or bike) a quarter mile east on Del Amo to the river.
CAR: Take the 710 Freeway. Exit Del Amo Boulevard. Head east on Del Amo. Turn right on Oregon Avenue and park.
Tags:Long Beach, Dominguez Gap, wildflowers
Posted in Los Angeles River Watershed, Now, Restoration/Revitalization | 3 Comments »
March 11, 2009
This week’s leaks that pique creek freaks beaks! (eek!)
RECENT NEWS:
>Yesterday in Metblogs, Will Campbell reports that portions of the Ballona Creek Bike Path will be closed and closed some more.
>Yesterday the Eastsider Blog reported that the Los Angeles City Council passed Los Angeles City Councilmember Ed Reyes’ motion directing the city’s Planning Department, General Services Department and River Revitalization Corporation to do the groundwork for a Request for Proposals process for the re-use of the Lincoln Heights Jail. The LA City Historical-Cultural Landmark Lincoln Heights Jail is located on Avenue 19 adjacent to the Los Angeles River – a stone’s throw from its historic confluence with the Arroyo Seco. The initial art deco building was built in 1930 with a less remarkable addition tacked on in 1949. The jail has been closed for many years. Its ground floor has housed a few cultural institutions, including the Bilingual Foundation for the Arts, though it’s best known as a film location.
>On February 24th, Daily News reporter explores home damage attributed to construction on the Moorpark Street Bridge over the Tujunga Wash in Studio City. LAist reports that neighbors fear more of the same with rehabilitation of the nearby Fulton Avenue Bridge over the Los Angeles River.
>Speaking of the river at Fulton Avenue in Sherman Oaks, the Village Gardeners of the Los Angeles River have their own new website which includes an active blog! See below for their Earth Day Clean-Up event.
>Speaking of home damages, On February 7th, the Long Beach Press Telegram reported the latest in a series of local floods damaging homes in West Long Beach (in the Dominguez Slough watershed.) See also the accompanying photo gallery and the follow-up article. Maybe some multi-benefit watershed management strategies could help break this cycle?
Check out recent LA Times blogs coverage of:
> Restoration at Machado Lake in Wilmington (more-or-less at the mouth on the Dominguez Slough Watershed)
> Opening of the new extension of Ralph Dills Park – located on the L.A. River in the city of Paramount
> Replacing of the 1932 Sixth Street Viaduct over the L.A. River. This unfortunate project proposes to put a contemporary 6-lane highway in place of one of our most historic and iconic bridges. The bridge, undermined by internal chemical issues, does need some work, but stay tuned to see if the city can do something that respects its scale and beauty. (Read the comments which include “Who came up with the bland design for the new bridge?”)
>Want to save energy, prevent greenhouse gas emissions and stem the tide of global warming? Worldchanging reports that conserving water is one of the most effective ways to reduce energy use. This is especially true in the city of Los Angeles where our pumping to deliver our water consumes about a quarter of all the energy we generate!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
>This Saturday March 14th from 8am to 2pm, North East Trees hosts a day of service to remove invasive plants from the wetlands at Rio de Los Angeles State Park in Cypress Park.
>On Sunday March 15th, Friends of the L.A. River (FoLAR) lead their monthly river walk in Atwater Village. Meet at the end of Dover Street at 3:30pm.
>The L.A. City Planning Department hosts two public hearings about the Cornfield Arroyo Seco Specific Plan – called the “CASP” (or maybe the CASSP?) The same meeting takes place on Monday March 16th at 3pm and 6pm at Goodwill Industries in Lincoln Heights.
>On Tuesday evenings from 7-9pm March 17th and 24th, L.A. Creek Freak’s Joe Linton and L.A. Streetsblog’s Damien Newton will teach our highly-informative internet skills class. Learn how to use easy, free internet applications to promote your non-profit and/or business. Start your own blog!
>Bicycle the Rio Hondo at the unfortunately-named-but-actually-really-fun 24th annual Tour de Sewer on Saturday March 21st.
March for Water on Saturday March 22nd!
>On Sunday March 22nd from 9am to 3pm, the March for Water will take place. Marchers will walk from Los Angeles State Historic Park to Rio De Los Angeles State Park to raise awareness of bring attention to the present water crisis taking place all over the world, our nation, the state and the city of Los Angeles. Conveners include Urban Semillas, Food and Water Watch, Anahuak Youth Sports Association, Green L.A. Coalition, and many more!
>On Thursday March 26th at 12noon at a Los Angeles Natural History Museum Research and Collections Seminar, L.A. Creak Freek’s Joe Linton will speak on “The Los Angeles River: Its Past, Present and Possible Future.” There’s no cost for the seminar, but if you’re not a member you’ll have to pay to get into the museum.
>On Saturday and Sunday April 17th and 18th from 9am to 12noon, the Village Gardeners of the Los Angeles River invite the public to help clean up, mulch, and plant natives at the Richard Lillard Outdoor Classroom in Sherman Oaks.
>FoLAR’s annual La Gran Limpieza (the Great LA River Clean-Up) will take place on Saturday May 9th.
>The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition hosts their 9th Annual Los Angeles River Ride on Sunday June 7th.
Tags:6th Street Bridge, bicycle, clean-up, Cornfield Arroyo Seco Specific Plan, Floods, Friends of the Los Angeles River, Fulton Avenue Bridge, Lincoln Heights, Long Beach, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, Machado Lake, March for Water, Moorpark Street Bridge, North East Trees, Ralph Dills Park, Rio Hondo, Village Gardeners of the Los Angeles River, water conservation
Posted in Ballona Creek Watershed, Dominguez Slough Watershed, Flood Protection, Habitat and Wildlife, Los Angeles River Watershed, Now, Recreation, San Gabriel River Watershed, Watershed Management | Leave a Comment »
December 12, 2008
Lots of fun things happening these days on our local creeks and streams! We’ve varied our format, because there are two important meetings next week that you won’t want to miss:
The city’s proposed River Improvement Overlay or “RIO” zoning (Creek Freak coverage here) will be the subject of a public hearing on Monday December 15th at 8am at Los Angeles City Hall, Room 1020, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles 90012 (entrance is on Main Street.)
The Environmental Protection Agency’s ruling on whether the Los Angeles River is navigable will be subject of meeting hosted by Friends of the Los Angeles River at 5:30pm on Tuesday December 16th at the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens, Atrium Room, 570 W. Avenue 26, Los Angeles 90065. The EPA’s David Smith will be present. If you made it through Creek Freak’s 4-part magnum opus on Nexus and Navigability, you’ll no doubt want to attend!
And there’s the recent news:
Kayaker Case Settled: Heather Wylie kayaked the LA River and was threatened with suspension from her job as a biologist for the Army Corps of Engineers. Earlier this week, she settled her case. She’ll be leaving her job and going to law school with plans to become an environmental attorney. Read the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility press release here, and for some background on the case, check Creek Freak’s earlier coverage. Important hearing on navigability next week – see below.
Earthen Bottom Stretch of Compton Creek (Photo: Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council)
Comtpon Creek Flowing: The city of Compton and the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority are moving forward with the Compton Creek greenway. Read the Los Angeles Wave’s coverage.
Green Advocate Empowered: Mayor Villaraigosa has appointed Green L.A. head Jonathan Parfrey to the 5-member Department of Water Power Commission. Parfrey is a friend of mine, the executive director of Green L.A. Coalition, and a committed and knowledgable environmentalist. Read the LA Times’ blog.
Land Swap Troubled: Remember that Long Beach land swap (Creek Freak coverage here) that preserves the Los Cerritos wetlands? Well, the down economy is impacting it, and the developer is looking to back out. Read Long Beach Press Telegram coverage.
Trout Passage Bridged: Though the fish apparently like it, some Malibu residents are unhappy with the reworking of the Solstice Creek Bridge. Read The Malibu Times’ coverage.
San Gabriel Fished: A new Urban Fly Fishing blog tells us the sweet fishing spots on the San Gabriel River.
Economic Stimulus Greened: In this LA Times editorial, TreePeople’s founder Andy Lipkis urges us to make sure that the federal economic stimulus infrastructure projects are smart and green.
Blue is Green: This New York Times blog proclaims that “blue is the new green” and has some beautiful images of green roofs and walls, water harvesting and gray water.
Río* from B a s t a r d i l l a on Vimeo.
Río Bogota Blues-ed: This video from the band Aterciopelados re-imagines the polluted urban Río Bogota. It’s full of beautiful animated drawings by the grafitti artist Bastardilla. (Thanks to correspondent Federico via the Wooster Collective blog.)
and, lastly, an annoucement:
Creek Freak wants you! If you’re interested in volunteering to help LA Creek Freak get the word out about LA’s worthwhile waters, let us know. We’re looking for guest bloggers that can cover subjects that Jessica and I can’t get to. Also, much needed are photographers! If you can let us use your existing river images, or can go out and photograph sites that we’re writing about, let us know. Email us at lacreekfreak {at} gmail . com!
Tags:Allison Arieff, Andy Lipkis, Compton Creek, Environmental Protection Agency, Heather Wylie, Jonathan Parfrey, kayaking, Long Beach, navigability, Rio Bogota, River Improvement Overlay, steelhead trout, volunteer
Posted in Habitat and Wildlife, Los Angeles River Watershed, Malibu Creek Watershed, Now, Other Watersheds, Recreation, Restoration/Revitalization, San Gabriel River Watershed, Water Supply, Watershed Management | Leave a Comment »
November 12, 2008
Jenny Price and Jared Orsi at the Dominguez Gap in North Long Beach
Today was a nice unseasonally warm November day, perfect for some scouting along the Lower Los Angeles River with some great authors. The expedition was organized by Jenny Price who will be leading Friends of the Los Angeles River’s upcoming bus tour of the lower river on December 7th. Creek freak afficionados will remember Jenny price as the author of Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A. which is one of the best articles to introduce people to the river and to environmental issues and conundrums in Los Angeles. She also wrote Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America and the LA Weekly’s guide to the Los Angeles River in 2001. At the steering wheel was Jared Orsi, author of Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles another excellent book that covers the history of flooding and flood control on the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers. Jared has been teaching in Colorado for a few years; this year he’s back in town as a visiting professor at Occidental College.
We made visits to the Cornfields, the 6th Street Bridge, Maywood Riverfront Park, Cudahy Park, river wall murals in Paramount, lower Compton Creek, Dominguez Gap, the estuary at Willow Street, and the Golden Shore Wetlands.
Bulldozer sitting amidst the barren half of the estuary in Long Beach
At a lot of the sites along the concrete sections of the river, we saw plenty of greenery and birds that were inhabiting temporary sandbars that settle in atop the concrete. These areas are best viewed in the fall before big rains come and wash them out. There were plenty of egrets, gulls, and stilts on the river in Maywood and Cudahy. Unfortunately the earthen-bottom areas aren’t looking quite as good. In anticipiation of winter storms, the county’s crews have been pretty active in bulldozing to clear vegetation that potentially impedes channels’ flood protection capacity. I know that this activity is permitted, and that the county only does half the channel in many areas… and has left a few willow trees standing… but it’s still jarring to me to see the flattened earth where grasses and shrubs had been growing a couple months ago. Jenny Price remarked at how much habitat was lost. The soft-bottom areas of Lower Comton Creek looked as barren as I had ever seen them – though there were some herons and coots taking solace in the small creekside strip of vegetation left. The blight of plastic and polystyrene trash their is even more visually apparent as there’s no vegetation to hide it. The estuary at Willow Street was still very full of life, though one bank looks looked like a vacant lot with a few lonely willow trees.
Low tide at the mouth of the Los Angeles River (note the visible sandbars in lower left corner and middle right side of photo)
Today was the lowest tide that I’ve ever encountered at the mouth of the river. Near the Queensway Bay Bridge, muddy earth at the bottom of the riprap walls showed. Sandbar islands showed above the water’s surface along the Catalina Cruises Terminal and Shoreline Park. The Golden Shore Wetlands were showing their tidal influence. They were mostly wet earth, but had nearly no standing water – just a beautiful tree-shaped mass of small rivulets. Nonetheless a great blue heron caught and devoured a small fish while we looked on.
Jared hadn’t visited most of these Los Angeles River sites since work on his book concluded in 2002. I was happy to hear him express a lot of optimism in visiting parks today that had been barren then. The Cornfield was a vacant railyard, now it’s Los Angeles State Historic Park. The Dominguez Gap Wetlands are completed and open. Maywood had a contaminated brownfield that’s now a riverfront park. Cudahy has a line of healthy sycamores and native shrubs along the South County Bike Trail where there had been only vacant right-of-way. Jenny remarked that it looks like Cudahy is the first city to green its entire riverfront (just under 3/4ths of a mile.) In Cudahy we even encountered North East Trees’ crew working on another small linear park that’s slated to open next month. Jared was glad to see that we creek freaks have kept at it and that our efforts are resulting in real change on the ground, bringing green public spaces to a region starved for it.
Tags:bulldozer, Compton Creek, Cudahy, Dominguez Gap, Jared Orsi, Jenny Price, Long Beach, Maywood, Paramount, tide
Posted in Flood Protection, Habitat and Wildlife, Los Angeles River Watershed, Now, Recreation, Restoration/Revitalization | 1 Comment »
November 12, 2008
The view from Long Beach’s second highest point may not entirely warm the heart, but it is interesting nonetheless. Looking down, at one’s feet, lay shell remnants of a Native American (Tongva) midden. Looking across the landscape, oil derricks and pumps pock-mark a disturbed landscape. Yet a pair of raptors soar by. A ravine below the hill is a ghost of the spring-fed creek and wetland that gave life to Willowville, an early Anglo settlement, and also provided the original source of water to a young City of Long Beach. Where the spring was, today sits a square detention basin. An occasional frog’s croaking can be heard at twilight. Underground pipes follow the path of the former creek, directing runoff from the basin into a stormdrain that eventually connects to the Los Angeles River. At the bottom of the ravine, a compacted dirt access road, patches of seasonal wetland dominated by cattails and mulefat, and a small seep-fed area of willow, are the final echo of that lost waterway.
Activists inspired by the site nicknamed it Willow Springs Gulch, and fought for the inclusion and restoration of the stream and hilltop within a sports complex that the City of Long Beach had planned for it. (While by no means central to the effort, yes, I was involved)
A few miles away to the east, environmentalists and public agencies have for years desired the restoration of the Cerritos Wetlands. This once extensive wetland has been, like so many of Southern California’s coastal wetlands, carved up, and developed in a piecemeal fashion. What remains is a precious and important coastal resource for fisheries, birds, water quality. You may recall Joe’s earlier post about endangered sea turtles taking up residence there.
The city is looking to work with the developers at Studebaker LB LLC to swap the sports park/Willow Springs Gulch land for the privately owned parcels in the Cerritos Wetlands. This is a big, positive step for the Cerritos Wetlands. And, as the exact terms of the swap are not public yet, I will publicly hope that in making the swap, the City will also secure the preservation of the hill and restoration of the ravine, maintaining both as public open space.
A big win could be even better, demonstrating that environmental sensitivity through restoration and preservation in the midst of development is not just compatible, but desirable. Hey Tom Dean, of Studebaker LB LLC, if you need help visualizing what I’m talking about, give me a call.
Read about it:
L.B. wants deal for wetlands – By John Canalis, Staff Writer
LONG BEACH – In what appears to be a major victory for environmentalists, the city plans to acquire a large swath of the Los Cerritos Wetlands for restoration, city officials said Tuesday. View Full Story
Tags:Cerritos Wetlands, Long Beach, stream restoration, Studebaker LB LLC, Tongva, Willow Springs Gulch, Willowville
Posted in Habitat and Wildlife, History, Los Angeles River Watershed, Now, Restoration/Revitalization, Water Quality | Leave a Comment »
October 18, 2008
Compton Creek
If you’re a Creekfreak, and you’ve not figured out where the water used to flow in your neighborhood yet, then this post is for you. From 2001-2003 I mapped the old streams and wetlands of the LA area in Illustrator, and began to lay them out for public consumption. And then got sucked into other projects. So here they are, in all their imperfection – but quite legible if you are a map reader. Just go to the side panel to the page labelled
Find a former waterway or wetland near you!
These maps are based on 62,500 scale 1896-1906 USGS maps, 1888 Detail Irrigation Maps, and slightly informed by later 24,000 scale USGS maps. The overlay maps are not definitive: the 24,000 scale maps, circa 1919-1930s, show streams not indicated on the earlier, larger scale maps, while showing at the same time considerable stream and wetland losses to development. In other words, I have a lot more drawing to do.
But this is about you, dear Creekfreak. If you live in the following areas, you may find a creek or wetland on one of these maps in your neighborhood:
Eagle Rock Glassell Park Highland Park Lincoln Heights
Cypress Park Pasadena South Pasadena Alhambra
Boyle Heights East Los Angeles Downtown Echo Park
Silverlake East Hollywood Hollywood Hills Koreatown
Mid-City West Adams Culver City Baldwin Hills
Cheviot Hills Mar Vista West Los Angeles West Hollywood
Beverly Hills Bel Air Brentwood Santa Monica
Venice Marina del Rey Inglewood Hawthorne
Gardena West Athens Willowbrook Watts
Compton South Gate Lynwood Vernon
Maywood Torrance Carson Lomita Wilmington
Long Beach San Pedro Palos Verdes
Happy searching! And let us know what you think!
Tags:Alhambra, Baldwin Hills, Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Boyle Heights, Brentwood, Carson, Cheviot Hills, Compton, creeks, Culver City, Cypress Park, downtown LA, Eagle Rock, East Hollywood, East Los Angeles, Echo Park, Gardena, Glassell Park, Hawthorne, Highland Park, historical map, Hollywood Hills, Inglewood, Koreatown, Lincoln Heights, Lomita, Long Beach, Lynwood, maps, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Maywood, Mid-City LA, Palos Verdes, Pasadena, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Silverlake, South Gate, South Pasadena, Torrance, Venice, Vernon, Watts, West Adams, West Athens, West Hollywood, West Los Angeles, wetlands, Willowbrook, Wilmington
Posted in Ballona Creek Watershed, Dominguez Slough Watershed, History, Los Angeles River Watershed, Now, Other Watersheds | 1 Comment »
September 17, 2008
An occasional round-up of news and events. Act now as these links tend to get kinda stale kinda quickly.
Urban River Turtles: on August 30th, the L.A. Times reported that Endangered Green Sea Turtles have taken up residence at the mouth of the San Gabriel River.
Long Beach Buy River Greenway Parcel: on September 11th, costar.com reported that Long Beach has acquired land for their L.A. River Greenway. The parcel is located between 6th and 7th Streets on the west side of downtown Long Beach.
Urban River Hippos, too?: on September 17th a Downtown News editorial cartoon blatantly favors dangerous invasive species in our local waterways.
Layers of Cornfield History: on September 17th, the selfsame Downtown News reports on archaeologists invading our cornfields.
“I don’t look back, only forward.” : on September 17th, L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez interviews Dorothy Green, founder of Heal the Bay and the California Water Impact Network and one of our heroes.
Upcoming Events:
California Coastal Clean-up Day takes place this Saturday September 20th from 9am to 12noon at beaches, parks, creeks and rivers near you.
The 2008 Frogtown Artwalk is also this Saturday. It opens with a 4:30pm Los Angeles River walk hosted by yours truly. It’s a great stretch of river – come on down.
Friends of the Los Angeles River hosts Riofest on October 2nd and 4th, including music by Very Be Careful!
Tags:San Gabriel River, Long Beach, Frogtown Artwalk, turtles, hippopotamus, cornfield, archaeologist, Dorothy Green, Coastal Clean-Up, volunteer, FoLAR, Riofest
Posted in Habitat and Wildlife, Los Angeles River Watershed, Now, Recreation, Restoration/Revitalization, San Gabriel River Watershed, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
