should it be a tugboat, should it be a littttle paper bt?t?yey didn't specify, so it lleft it up to the enfnforcement agencies. so in 2008, the army corps of engineers did a study of whether the l.a. river was going to be navigable, in fact, or not. so, this created a huge uproar in the environmental community in the country, because everybody realized that this was going to be, um, a landmark decision, and it wawas gog toto impapact the fututure of a all e rivers, and alall the wateters n the united statates. at the same time, george wolfe was planning to do this kind of tongue-in-cheek trip down the entire length of the l.a. river. so, he became a kind of pivotal question mark k on whether this could be decicided on a technhnicity, essentialally. if he couould prorove that the river's naviigable, that was all that it was going g to take. but it was a aind of absururd shot n the e dark. >> maybe in an hohour or s so fm now,w, people in k kayaks are gg to be setting g off down the e s angeles riviver, on a trip supposed to promote the recreati