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Lewis MacAdams on the LA River, Frank Gehry, and the Return of the Red Legged Frog

When the announcement trickled out in August that Frank Gehry would take over master planning duties for the L.A. River, it caught some locals by surprise. Perhaps no one was more startled—and more critical—about this seeming mismatch than Lewis MacAdams, the co-founder and president of Friends of the L.A. River (FoLAR), an organization that has been working on behalf of the 52-mile long urban river for three decades.

MacAdams co-founded FoLAR in 1985, just two years arriving in Los Angeles. He is a kind of citizens planner and activist: part poet (literally, he’s published 12 collections) and part politician. For him, the politics and the poetics of the river are inexplicably linked. Recently I spoke with MacAdams about the Gehry brouhaha, FoLAR’s new research initiative, the (slowly) evolving Army Corps of Engineers, and the return of the red legged frog.

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