foundation. koo and patricia yuen through the yuen foundation, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org.] narrator: a kqed television♪production. ♪ masters: los angeles might fool itself into thinking it's conquered nature. to quench its thirst, it built aqueducts to sip from distant watersheds. to guard against the occasional, but inevitable storms, it re-engineered its river, creeks, and steams into concrete flood control channels. to make the land safe and suitable for modern industrial life, it drained its wetlands, paved over its prairies, and cleared the area of predatory animals. in this episode, "lost l.a."