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Owens River, California

... that the U.S. Academic Decathlon was first organized in Orange County, California?
... that Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park was originally an ostrich farm?
... that California's Owens River (pictured) has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water?

March - June 2004

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