Jenny Price is an environmental writer, who recently wrote the article "Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A." (The Believer, April/May 2006.) She authored the LA Weekly's 2001 "Field Guide to the Los Angeles River" and Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (Basic Books, 1999).
See what people are saying about their tour with Jenny :
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The river is the secret spine of Los Angeles, and Jenny is its chiropractor. Whatever you do, tag along on her tour sometime soon, and say hey for me. I fully intend to toast her wit and dedication with a brimming glass of LA River water before I die -- of altogether unrelated causes.
David Kipen, SF Chronicle book critic, 'The Schreiber Theory' author, junior G-man and homesick native son [David is the current NEA Director of Literature]
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I cannot recommend this tour highly enough. I have been on the LA River Tour multiple times because it never fails to interest me. I have found it to be a really cool way to get under the skin of this city. Whether you come at it from a historical, cultural or geographical perspective -- or simply want to get the kind of hip, insider's view that a rare few people have the opportunity to experience, this is a great event. You will never look at the city - or the river - the same way again. You will own an experience of Los Angeles that is unique -- and besides which, if nothing else, you'll have interesting cocktail chatter.
Catherine Holliss, Sander Architects
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For us as educators the tour brought together the significance of the LA River to both the cultural and environmental history of Los Angeles. We've used information and slides from our tour in both our teaching programs.
Philip Rundel - UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Judy King-Rundel - CSUDH Department of Earth Sciences
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As a 40 year LA resident I had never taken time to find out more aboutour river and basically took it for granted. After taking the FOLAR tour I have learned more about the beginnings of LA and the importance of this river and find my sense of community and love of nature are reinvigorated. I support the idea of restoring this lost habitat for the sake of our responsibility to the health of the environment and for the enhancement to our quality of life that only nature seems to inspire. I encourage others to embrace the idea of the LA River's rehabilitation.
Penny Primo, LA Resident
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The LA River tour was one of the first outings I embarked upon after moving to stimulating LA from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the waterway is the heart of the city. Led by Alan Loomis and Jenny Price with crafted wit, solid information and urban friendliness, I found it to be an exquisite, adventurous way of experiencing the connective possibility of nature and infrastructure in this often disoriented city.
Sara Daleiden, Los Angeles Urban Rangers
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The tour I took last year literally changed my life. I now see L.A. as a land of possibilities and the river is where those possibilities will be realized.
Dr. Jeffrey Tipton, Surviving L.A.
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Jenny Price's LA River Tour is an invigorating and eye-opening adventure. Her vast repertoire of river fact and lore coupled with her intimate knowledge of the waterway's fifty-one miles of twists and turns enables a rare encounter with urban nature that is sure to connect Angelenos to their river, their future and to their deeper selves.
Robin Scovill. filmmaker & father, Los Angeles
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The river tours serve a significant civic function in excavating the environmental and human history of Los Angeles. The tours educate a curious public about the form and function of urban planning and its intended (and unintended) consequences.
Sarah Schrank, Associate Professor, United States Urban History,
California State University, Long Beach
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When I first moved to Los Angeles and heard people refer to the "L.A. River" I just thought it was a slang term people used to refer to a hang-out. I didn't know it was an actual river!!! When I learned it was a flowing river I went on a FoLAR tour and it was so great! The river is beautiful and it's story is intriguing. Best of all FoLAR really knows how to share this with you. I highly recommend this tour. You'll have a lot of fun and experience one of the wonderful gems thatmake L.A. such a great city.
Jennifer Allen, Policy Associate, Livable Places
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The FoLAR tour is a must for anyone interested in understanding the devastating impact of urbanization on the river. Fortunately, the depressing aspects are counterbalanced by sights that show the potentials from restoring the river.
Paul Ong, Professor, Public Affairs, Asian American Studies, UCLA
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