The city of South Gate is trying to mimic conditions before the explosive growth of L.A. after World War II that allowed certain rare native fish to thrive.
The city of South Gate plans to transform a weedy and rutted field overlooking an industrialized stretch of the Los Angeles River into a sylvan retreat boasting a nursery for rare native fish that thrived before the explosive growth of Southern California after World War II.
The city of South Gate plans to build a hatchery for rare native fish including arroyo chubs and genetically pure lineages of rainbow trout on a weedy expanse overlooking a concrete stretch of the Los Angeles River.“It’s a neglected landscape reclaiming its wild side,” Robin Mark, Los Angeles program manager for the nonprofit group The Trust for Public Land, which is partnering with South Gate on the project, said during a recent tour of the property.
The trout and chubs will forage and lounge in a sanctuary of potable and treated water contoured with pools, riffles and waterfalls designed by biologists at Stillwater Sciences, a consulting firm.Landscape designer Matt Romero holds a rendering of a planned urban park and reconstructed wetland in South Gate.
The project is sorely needed. An estimated 60% of South Gate residents live within walking distance, or a quarter-mile, of a park, compared with 87% of Santa Monica residents who live that close to green space, according to a recent survey by The Trust for Public Land.
That message resonates in many communities shouldering riverbanks along the L.A. River, which was transformed in the 1930s into a flood-control channel to protect the burgeoning flatlands from frequent catastrophic floods. Nearly the entire 51-mile river bottom was paved with concrete, except for a few places where the water table was too high.
Whether the effort succeeds remains to be seen, butJennifer Pareti, an environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said: “The fact that this project was born in a field of weeds is a huge step in the right direction. To say it is greatly needed is an understatement.”
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