Los Angeles River - America's Great Outdoors

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Los Angeles River - America's Great Outdoors

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Ram Vasudev

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This is an early morning view of the Los Angeles River – a part of President Obama’s America’s 2012 Great Outdoors program. The program celebrates the transformation of the River into a model urban waterway and a new era public access and use of the river.

This is part of the Los Angeles River that is undergoing restoration into a wonderful urban wildlife habitat. It is lined with lush green vegetation and is home to a variety birds and fish. This stretch of the LA River has been undergoing an extensive rehabilitation in an attempt to return it and its wildlife to the original glory, before it was encased in concrete by the US Army Corps of Engineers in response to extensive devastating floods in the 1930s and before. Historically, the River provided a source of water and food for the Tongya people before the arrival of the Spanish. It was an alluvial river that ran freely across a flood plain that is now occupied by Los Angeles, Long Beach and other cities in Southern California.

A move is afoot, in response to environmental concerns, to rehabilitate part of the LA River to its splendor of a hundred years ago from the eye sore that it has been. The Army Corps of Engineers, with support from the Federal government, Los Angeles and the state, has been developing a plan to transform two segments of the river stretching 11 miles in length into green space for natural habitats for wildlife by restoring wetlands that have been lost to urban sprawl. This in addition to cleanup effort from local environmental groups.

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March 30th, 2021

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