Southern California's Last Wild River

"...[I]f people don’t know the Santa Clara exists, they can’t help fight the forces that threaten it — including a luxury housing development proposed on 141 acres of the river’s floodplain, and a large-scale gravel mining operation in the river’s babbling upper reaches that will likely empty it over the next 20 years. So the river’s hardy band of protectors were woozy with joy on Wednesday when American Rivers, a D.C.-based nonprofit, announced the Santa Clara had snagged a spot on its list of most endangered rivers of 2005."

Thanks to Brenda Meyer