Red Gold: The Demise of California's Redwood Forest
Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 7m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Only five percent of Los Angeles' old-growth redwood forests remain after exploitation.
In the course of its relentless growth, Los Angeles paved over its local prairies and drained its wetlands. But the city’s ecological destruction extended far beyond Southern California. Take the once-mighty temperate rainforests of California’s redwood coast. Only five percent of the state’s old-growth redwood forests now remain – a fact for which Los Angeles deserves a great deal of blame.
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Red Gold: The Demise of California's Redwood Forest
Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 7m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
In the course of its relentless growth, Los Angeles paved over its local prairies and drained its wetlands. But the city’s ecological destruction extended far beyond Southern California. Take the once-mighty temperate rainforests of California’s redwood coast. Only five percent of the state’s old-growth redwood forests now remain – a fact for which Los Angeles deserves a great deal of blame.
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Concrete Fantasy: Southern California, a Freeway Metropolis
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If any one building material defined mid-20th-century Los Angeles, it was concrete. (7m 45s)
Iron Sprawl: How Trolleys Made L.A. a Horizontal City
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Once imported from elsewhere, iron and steel would transform Los Angeles’ urban form. (9m 10s)
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