Showdown at the Glendale Narrows

This poetic environmentalist account traces the history of the Glendale Narrows reach of the Los Angeles River, the one section where its movie-set-famous channelization is thwarted by the power of the river itself. This archival retrieval considers the relationship between humans and the river across cycles of drought and flood and lays out the shifting currents of environmentalist attitudes towards California’s waterways.