| | | L.A. River's Army Corps Plan: Will the Feds Come Through? BY JESSICA OGILVIE  The sun beats down on the Los Angeles River one morning as George Wolfe unloads kayaks from a truck parked on a worn street, 10 feet from the water. He's been up since dawn, when he led his first kayak tour, three hours downstream, to get residents invested in L.A.'s strange, urban waterway. "It's a real thrill to have the general public be able to boat on this part of the river," he says, "and expose people to what's here." See also: No, Really: You Can (and Should!) Kayak the L.A. River (VIDEO) Wolfe runs L.A. River Expeditions. Roll that idea around in your mind for a while. He started his nonprofit in 2011. He and his wife, documentary filmmaker Thea Mercouffer (her movies include Rock ... more >>
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