Saving the Santa Clara River

november 25, 2002  11:40 pm
Saving the Santa Clara River
The Center for Biological Diversity cares as much about the unarmored threespine stickleback as it does a cathedral forest of trees, which is why it is reinventing the environmental movement and could be saving Southern California in the process. LA Weekly's Susan Zakin follows the center's unlikely warriors on their daily rounds as they try to stop developers from turning one of Southern California's last natural rivers into a concrete-lined dump.