Los Cerritos Wetlands advocates are about to go where no community-based restoration group has gone before: the Los Cerritos Wetlands

PHOTO by JENNY STOCKDALE
In March 2008, Dave Wielenga and I followed urban salt marsh ecologist Eric Zahn through some of the remaining 500 acres of the Los Cerritos Wetlands, a once-lush 2400-acre stretch of coastal salt [...]

The LA River is teeming with birds–yeah, the LA River

PHOTO by JOSHUA PERALTA
It’s 2 o’clock in the afternoon and I’m standing by the sandy banks of the Los Angeles River at the Willow Street Estuary. Although I can still hear traffic sighing over the bridge in the distance, it’s faint and soon forgotten. The sounds [...]

Oil spilled in San Francisco came from Port of Long Beach
In the most important story on the Nov. 8 spill, LBReport.com says the bunker fuel dumped in San Francisco had its origins in our backyard–and editor Bill Pearl isn’t just talking about the fact that the Hanjin freighter took on its load at the Port [...]