North Shore SING

This past week I walked alongside a 51 mile concrete canal built between 1938 - 1960 which sought to contain the Los Angeles River. The premise was flood control for a growing city. This river which begins in the Simi Hills, once provided a verdant watershed, home to waterfowl, steelhead, wildlife. Slowly however, since the late 1980's the river is being restored to life, as citizen advocates folar.org, seek to mitigate the excess of the past, so that river and people can learn to live in harmony.

Back on the North Shore, I was thinking about the pressures upon our home river, the Ipswich: pollution, residential development, lack of agreement on water usage, climate change etc .

However, if the LA River can come back to life...imagine what a little imagination and community advocacy can do, to ensure the resiliancy and sustainability of our home watershed. I invite you to read: Two Rivers