#la basin

You can see that the LA River is a glorified storm runoff ditch. This is pretty much the entire watershed for the LA Basin region.

“Let them tear down the compound tile by tile, let them destroy the walls and every adobe brick. It will not matter because the children of our fathers and our children and their children’s children will never be forgotten as long as the wind and the insects scatter the seeds that we planted together, The Gabrielinos will be remembered. What came from the giver of life we can not claim as our own. It is only ours to use, because when we try we destroy ourselves. “