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Author: Peter Steinhart Publisher: Random House (NY) ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 118
Book Description
This handbook blends outstanding photographs and informative essays to survey some 100 endangered species in California--mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, molluscs, crustaceans, and fish--which volunteer environmental groups and government agencies are trying to save.
Author: Peter Steinhart Publisher: Random House (NY) ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 118
Book Description
This handbook blends outstanding photographs and informative essays to survey some 100 endangered species in California--mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, molluscs, crustaceans, and fish--which volunteer environmental groups and government agencies are trying to save.
Author: Phyllis M. Faber Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520240315 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
One hundred top California plant biologists share their favorite wildflower spots in the state with the help of gorgeous photographs, and alert readers to the conservation status of the plants.
Author: M. Kat Anderson Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520933109 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 560
Book Description
A complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation. John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of harvesting, tilling, sowing, pruning, and burning. Marvelously detailed and beautifully written, Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts. M. Kat Anderson presents a wealth of information on native land management practices gleaned in part from interviews and correspondence with Native Americans who recall what their grandparents told them about how and when areas were burned, which plants were eaten and which were used for basketry, and how plants were tended. The complex picture that emerges from this and other historical source material dispels the hunter-gatherer stereotype long perpetuated in anthropological and historical literature. We come to see California's indigenous people as active agents of environmental change and stewardship. Tending the Wild persuasively argues that this traditional ecological knowledge is essential if we are to successfully meet the challenge of living sustainably.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic government information Languages : en Pages : 16
Author: Allan A. Schoenherr Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520909915 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 806
Book Description
In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan Schoenherr describes a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California will familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants and animals in each distinctive region of the state.
Author: Let's Go Inc. Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312335441 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 624
Book Description
Completely revised and updated, Let's Go: California is your insider's guide to the Golden State. Let's Go's forty-five years of travel savvy deliver the practical facts you'll need, from navigating L.A.'s freeways to finding the hottest nightlife. Expanded coverage of national parks, beaches, hiking, and skiing get you out of the city, while listings in the alternatives to tourism chapter show you how to make a difference or become a movie star. Whether you'd rather trek Yosemite's backcountry trails or sample California cuisine in Berkeley's gourmet ghetto, Let's Go can lead the way.
Author: Peter Steinhart
Author: Peter Steinhart
Author: Phyllis M. Faber
Author: M. Kat Anderson
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Author: Peter Steinhart
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Author: Allan A. Schoenherr
Author: Let's Go Inc.
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