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Flocks of Black Neck Stilts head down to the "wetlands" of the Los Angeles River in the spring where you can find them feasting on the algae clumped on the concrete in Downtown L.A.
Built in less than three decades' time, between 1909-1938, the twenty-seven historic bridges span the entirety of the Los Angeles River from the San Bernadino Valley down to Long Beach and represent a significant time period for Los Angeles.
Nearly a mile in length and connecting downtown L.A. to Boyle Heights, the Sixth Street Viaduct was the last and arguably grandest of the river bridges.
A slideshow with captions illustrating the history of the Los Angles River prior to its channelization.
Melanie Winter is the director of The River Project, a non-profit organization that encourages responsible management of watershed lands and the…
Primarily a flood-control basin to control floodwater runoff, the Sepulvida Basin serves a broad range of other uses for the city, from refuge to recreational space, to water treatment facility.
Journalist and reporter Patt Morrison discusses the past, present, and future meaning of the Los Angeles River to the city.
A short distance from the mouth of the river, the Golden Shore Marine Reserve is a small inlet where one may see Great Blue Herons, Sandpipers, Cormorants and Terns. Alicia Katano explains how this estuary collects most of the river's non-point polluti...
Lewis MacAdams on environmentalism, poetry, art, and revitalization of the river.
Superintendent for the Los Angeles sector of California State Parks, Sean Woods, radio host and author, Patt Morrison, and Executive Director of The City Project, Rober Garcia, discuss various aspects of the Olmsted Plan.
Departures The Crumbs Beat poet Philomene Long said that the remains of the great American feast--its crumbs--ended up in Venice.Explore
In the following videos, Suellen Cheng describes the first building blocks of the Chinese community in Los Angeles and the community's transition from a city of migrants to the home of longtime residents.
