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Kevin Roderick • January 26 2008 3:16 PM

Jay Babcock at Nature Trumps: An L.A. River Blog posts this scene from November, looking upstream from the footbridge toward Los Feliz Boulevard and the burned Griffith Park hills.

L.A. River

Click below for nearly the same scene, after Thursday's runoff had scoured the channel and autumn had stripped some of the greenery.

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More images at the river blog.

Photos: Stacy Kranitz (top), Jay Babcock

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