LA River revitalization?

Plenty Magazine reports on the planned revitalization of the Los Angeles River and writer Frederick Reimers takes an illegal kayak trip down the length to check it out.

[In 2007] the city council adopted the $2 billion, 20-year Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan, an incredibly ambitious blueprint of 238 potential projects, from creating parks and bike paths to reducing flooding and removing concrete banks to restoring wildlife habitats, wetlands sites, and recreational boating opportunities.

But months after the council’s decision, the Army Corps of Engineers jeopardized the plan by ruling that the waterway isn’t traditionally navigable and is, therefore, exempted from the Clean Water Act.

Reimers three-day kayak trip however was successful. Police didn't arrest his group, he encountered other people interested in river revitalization, and the ending at Long Beach came to a bird-filled finale.

Read the full story: Kayaking the Los Angeles River