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	Los Angeles Dentist - Los Angeles Cosmetic Dentist - Los Angeles Implant Dentist
		Los Angeles is also one of the most globally-oriented places in the world—it is a cosmopolitan city, home to people from virtually every nation on Earth.
		Los Angeles is also home to the largest populations of Persians (Iranians) and Japanese living in the U.S., and has one of the largest Native American populations in the country.
		Residents of the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County and various cities within the county are served by the County of Los Angeles Public Library The LAPL is funded by voter-approved bond and tax levy packages.
	www.cosmeticdentalservices.com /city/los_angeles_dental_services.php (4233 words)

	Encyclopedia: Los Angeles River (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Los Angeles County is a county in California with 10,179,716 residents (as of July 2004)[1], the most populous county in the United States.
		Until the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the Los Angeles River was the primary water source for the Los Angeles Basin, and much of its channel was dry except during the winter rains.
		Los Angeles is also home to the largest populations of Japanese and Persians living in the U.S., and has one of the largest Native American populations in the country.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Los-Angeles-River (1732 words)

	Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Los Angeles is also home to the largest populations of Japanese and Iranians living in the U.S., and has one of the largest Native American populations in the country.
		Los Angeles is the home to a number of Neopagans, as well as adherents of various other mystical religions.
		Los Angeles is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, the Los Angeles Sparks, the Los Angeles Kings, the Club Deportivo Chivas USA and Los Angeles Galaxy, and the Los Angeles Avengers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Los_Angeles,_California (6464 words)

	The Los Angeles River (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Harris Newmark, who resided in Los Angeles for sixty years and authored a remarkable reminiscence of that period, noted that the tree, perhaps two centuries old, was cut down near the turn of the century to make way for the Philadelphia Brew House, the brewery operated by Maier and Zobelein on Aliso Street.
		That the Los Angeles River was a pristine stream in a wild condition is belied by the letters column and newspaper accounts of the 1880s.
		Los Angeles, July 15.--[To the Editor of The Times.] The proper drainage for the city of Los Angeles is, of course, the course of the Los Angeles River.
	www.csupomona.edu /~reshaffer/riverx.htm (5421 words)

	Los Angeles River \| LAMountains.com
		The Los Angeles River Visitor Center is an exhibit hall that celebrates the eleven miles of natural river where reeds, willows, mulefat and native riparian plants have returned.
		The Los Angeles River, formed by a large watershed that drains the Santa Susana Mountains, the San Fernando Valley, and the San Gabriel Mountains, played an important part in the geological formation of the Los Angeles basin.
		The Los Angeles River was critical to the founding of Los Angeles, and the town became a thriving farming community, growing corn, wheat, grapes and orchard fruits irrigated by the Los Angeles River and its tributary streams.
	lamountains.com /involved_river.asp (920 words)

	PattMorrison.com . Rio LA: Tales From the Los Angeles River
		In its tumbling and churning course to the sea, it reduced the boulders of the mountains to the soft sand of the beaches.
		And yet for 125 years, nearly half of the life of modern Los Angeles, this unmentionable river was where the city drew every pail and cup of its water.
		Once it had been confined — “built,” in the language of the engineers — the river was erased from the city’s mental map as blithely as movie studios obliterated their stars’ real lives and names, and rewrote them to the moguls’ liking.
	www.pattmorrison.com /bookshop.shtml (1449 words)

	Los Angeles River \| LAMountains.com
		The Los Angeles River Visitor Center is an exhibit hall that celebrates the eleven miles of natural river where reeds, willows, mulefat and native riparian plants have returned.
		The Los Angeles River, formed by a large watershed that drains the Santa Susana Mountains, the San Fernando Valley, and the San Gabriel Mountains, played an important part in the geological formation of the Los Angeles basin.
		The Los Angeles River was critical to the founding of Los Angeles, and the town became a thriving farming community, growing corn, wheat, grapes and orchard fruits irrigated by the Los Angeles River and its tributary streams.
	www.lamountains.com /involved_river.asp (952 words)

	Johns Hopkins University Press \| Books \| The Los Angeles River
		Los Angeles would not exist were it not for the river, and the river was crucial to its growth.
		In the contradictions of the river, Gumprecht reveals a broader conflict about the uses of space in Los Angeles, and that unresolved argument spills over into harder questions here and in every part of the country about the limits of environmental restoration.
		Gumprecht, a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, is equipped with a vivid sense of language and strong narrative skills, allowing him to navigate a complex and often confusing tale and to make it readily accessible to the reader.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/title_pages/2709.html (1157 words)

	Publishers Weekly on The Los Angeles River
		In this exhaustive and lively investigation, Gumprecht, a geography professor and former Los Angeles Times reporter, charts the waterway's evolution from a "beautiful stream, wandering peacefully amid willows and wild grapes" to the refuse-strewn, "ugly, concrete gutter" it is today.
		Gumprecht describes the crucial role that the river played in the settlement and growth of L.A.--both as a water source and as a symbol of the region's Arcadian promise--and, conversely, how the river was remade in the image of the metropolis itself, becoming depleted and degraded by the very development it made possible.
		Conjuring images of Roman Polanski's Chinatown, Gumprecht's river "biography" breathes vitality into a subject that in the hands of a less enthusiastic author might be drier than the industrial wasteland that he describes.
	geography.ou.edu /Backup050503/research/river/pw.html (280 words)

	The LA River Exhibit \| Present \| 2000
		Today the Los Angeles River and its tributaries are artificial from their source in the San Gabriel Mountains to the river's mouth in Long Beach.
		The course of the river is permanently constrained by concrete channels, designed to move winter storm waters to the ocean as quickly as possible and thereby prevent flooding.
		The Los Angeles River is thus either forgotten or seen as an embarrassment, while the single-minded flood control strategy that has guided the river's development in the past is considered both inadequate and absurd.
	www.deliriousla.net /lariver/2000.htm (162 words)

	CNN - Wildlife, activists help revive Los Angeles River - December 29, 1998
		LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A river runs through the heart of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
		Schure is a member of a small group trying to restore the river, a big job considering most of its 50-plus miles were encased in concrete 60 years ago to protect the city from floods.
		But it remains a river, even though much of its flow now comes from wastewater plants which pour treated effluent into the river.
	www.cnn.com /US/9812/29/la.river (404 words)

	The Los Angeles River
		The Los Angeles River is the heart of an 871-square mile watershed.
		The Los Angeles River, in 51 miles, drops in elevation 795 feet, and the watershed, in 40 miles, drops over 7,000 feet from its highest point to the estuary in Long Beach.
		Past Griffith Park, as the river runs south from what is known as the Glendale Narrows, the river flow along the naturalized riverbed portion of the river referred to as the Elysian Valley.
	www.lastormwater.org /Siteorg/general/lariver/lariver.htm (514 words)

	LACDPW: Los Angeles River Watershed
		The watershed encompasses and is shaped by the path of the Los Angeles River, which flows from its headwaters in the mountains eastward to the northern corner of Griffith Park where the channel turns southward through the Glendale Narrows before it flows across the coastal plain and into San Pedro Bay near Long Beach.
		The Los Angeles River, which once flowed freely over the coastal plain, was channelized between 1914 and 1970 to control the runoff and reduce the impacts of major flood events in the region.
		The current flow in the river is effluent dominated with approximately 80 percent of its flow originating at dischargers and the remaining flow coming from storm drain runoff and groundwater reaching the surface.
	ladpw.org /wmd/watershed/LA (504 words)

	Los Angeles -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		On the Pacific coast of southern California lies a vast, sprawling urban area that is remarkable for the immensity of its population, the diversity of its physical features, its climate, and its economy.
		Founded in 1739 and elevated to city status in 1852, Los Angeles was swept by fire in 1820, has suffered earthquake damage repeatedly, and was destroyed several times in the long struggle with the Araucanian...
		Capitol Records was launched in Los Angeles in 1942 in association with the British company EMI and soon became a serious rival to the major New York City-based companies, but no other major label appeared on the West Coast until Warner Brothers launched a record division in 1958.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275538 (815 words)

	CWIS -- "Los Angeles River"
		The profile focuses primarily on the portion of the river that is 'soft-bottomed' from the Willows Street Bridge to Queensway Bay.
		Adjacent to the river mouth to the west are the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles - the largest port complexes on the west coast of the United States.
		The pueblo of Los Angeles was established in 1781, and agriculture and cattle ranching were the main uses up to the Civil War.
	ceres.ca.gov /wetlands/geo_info/so_cal/los_angeles_river.html (2341 words)

	Los Angeles River (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Probably one of the most abused and ridiculed rivers in America, the Los Angeles River, nevertheless, was the major reason for the location of the Pueblo when it was laid out in 1769.
		The beginnings of the river have always been of some dispute; perhaps it is sufficient to say here that it rises in the mountains above the San Fernando Valley, flows through the Valley and downtown area, and joins the Pacific at Long Beach.
		For that reason, much of the river is contained by a concrete channel that protects the city from its rampages.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/historic/la_river.html (183 words)

	Los Angeles River Greenway Program: The Trust for Public Land
		The vision for a park system along the Los Angeles River dates back to a 1930s plan by the Olmstead brothers, famous for urban parks design throughout the nation.
		Today, the transformation of the Los Angeles River from a forgotten concrete channel into a usable and attractive river greenway is Los Angeles County's most promising conservation effort.
		As laid out in the county's 1996 Los Angeles River Master Plan, a network of parks, trails, natural areas and community spaces would stretch all along the river's 51-mile length.
	www.tpl.org /tier3_print.cfm?folder_id=1525&mod_type=2 (357 words)

	Parks \| LAMountains.com
		The Los Angeles River Center and Gardens is located at the former site of the Lawry’s California Center, near the confluence of the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco, close to Elysian Park and downtown Los Angeles.
		The Los Angeles River Visitor Center at the River Center is an exhibit hall that celebrates the eleven miles of natural river where reeds, willows, mulefat, and native riparian plants have returned.
		The River Garden Park is located at the corner of San Fernando Road and Avenue 26 at the northern tip of the Los Angeles River Center and Gardens.
	www.lamountains.com /parks.asp?parkid=32 (502 words)

	Los Angeles River Ride
		The bike path along the Los Angeles River is not complete, and I saw this as an opportunity to learn the bike path and the surface route where the path has not been constructed.
		Weather reports available through the Internet and the Los Angeles Times did not indicate the extent of the system, which I then assumed to be a local marine layer situation.
		I understand that at one time the Los Angeles River frequently changed route with winter flooding, and even reached as far west as the Hughes Air Port in the Hawthorne area during the early 20th century.
	members.ispwest.com /n6mm/rides/river/lariver.htm (1448 words)

	Sierra: Natural Los Angeles - Los Angeles River history - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Difficult as it is for Angelenos or anyone else to believe, the Los Angeles was once a real river, along the banks of which the city was founded.
		For more than 100 years, the river was the sole source of water for the city that grew around it.
		The chapter's Los Angeles River Task Force works with groups such as Friends of the Los Angeles River to increase awareness and enjoyment of the city's only river.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1525/is_1_84/ai_53501838 (951 words)

	Los Angeles River School (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They are the rivers, arroyos, and washes of LA’s massive flood control system—once the pristine Los Angeles River but now a 52-mile paved sluice that on most days carries a ribbon of undrinkable water to the Pacific, but after heavy rains becomes a torrent of storm drain run-off and trash.
		Along with 350 other Los Angeles classmates, she participates in the River School, an outdoor “classroom” started in 1998 that engages middle and high school students in day-long investigations along the LA River.
		Recently, the Los Angeles Unified School District asked the River School to recruit as river monitors a network of students at a dozen high schools—as diverse as LA itself—along the river’s 52-mile run.
	www.whatkidscando.org /shorttakes/LAriver.html (1323 words)

	L.A. River History
		Rivers in arid climates tend to be seasonal, with little or no flow through much of the year, and heavy flows and flooding through the rainy season.
		Possibly we can get a glimpse of what the river might have been like by looking at the Santa Clara River, which is one of the only remaining large, relatively natural rivers in the region.
		Fifteen percent of the water for the City of Los Angeles is supplied by rain in the form of groundwater.
	www.lalc.k12.ca.us /target/units/river/tour/hist.html (1386 words)

	Wildernet - Los Angeles River Ranger District
		Description - The Los Angeles River Ranger District is bounded on the south by the cities of Los Angeles (population 3,600,000), Glendale (193,000), La Cresenta, La Canada-Flintridge (20,000), Pasadena (137,000), Sierra Madra (11,000), Arcadia (52,000) and Monrovia (39,000).
		Many of the recreations available on the Los Angeles River Ranger District are outlined in the Forest's monthly newsletter.
		Forest visitors on the San Bernardino, Cleveland, Angeles and Los Padres National Forests of Southern California are required to purchase an Adventure Pass and display it on their vehicle when parked in the Forest.
	www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=050101&CU_ID=127 (1001 words)

	Whole Earth Review: Restoring the Los Angeles river: a forty-year art project
		Luckily, it was too noisy to hear ourselves think, so when we asked the river if we could speak for it in the human realm we didn't hear it say no; and that was how Friends of the Los Angeles River began.
		By calling Friends of the Los Angeles River a forty-year artwork, I hoped to remind myself that bringing the river back to life would take longer than my own life, and that all of us are in service to an idea: creating a Los Angeles River Greenway from the mountains to the sea.
		In his poem "Night Song of the Los Angeles Basin," Gary Snyder says that underneath the concrete, the river is always there, laughing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n85/ai_16816238 (937 words)

	Los Angeles ...
		Although you might not know it in Los Angeles, flowing water naturally does not move along a path as straight as the Harbor Freeway, but bends and pools and twists.
		Los Angeles River advocates met similar opposition, and have largely shifted their focus to less rancorous proposals.
		Deep in a remote gorge, the loose rock slopes are so steep that the trail has to leave the river bottom and skirt along a ridge to the east.
	www.arroyoseco.org /LAT010812Gulch.htm (1534 words)

	Living on Earth: Remaking the Los Angeles River
		After decades of viewing the Los Angeles River as a flood control channel – and as a joke – Angelinos are working now to revive their river.
		Los Angeles plans to focus on five areas where there's enough open space to widen the channel or make new parks.
		Melanie Winter, of The River Project, dips her toes into the River in one of the few places where there is no concrete on the bottom.
	www.loe.org /shows/segments.htm?programID=06-P13-00024&segmentID=7 (2520 words)

	The City Project
		The City of Los Angeles must work together with the County and other municipalities and agencies to ensure equal access to public resources along the full 52 miles of the Los Angeles River, not just the 32 miles within the City.
		The area from El Rio de Los Angeles State Park to the Los Angeles State Historic Park and El Pueblo de Los Angeles should be connected to serve as a best practice example for community development.
		The Los Angeles River has always been at the heart of whichever human community is in the basin: Gabrielino village, Spanish outpost, Mexican pueblo, American city.
	www.cityprojectca.org /ourwork/losangelesriver.html (962 words)

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