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Author : Phyllis M. Faber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0520240316
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
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520933101
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030633929
Author : Alicia Funk,Karin Kaufman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cooking (Wild foods)
ISBN : 0983309205
Author : Bertha Marguerite Rice,Roland Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Flowers
ISBN : UCAL:$B28371
Author : California. Department of Fish and Game
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Pacific salmon fisheries
ISBN : UCBK:C044643215
Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307957658
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
Author : California. Department of Fish and Game
Publisher : Calif. Department of Fish and Game
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCSD:31822033456799
Those of us who live in California know that it is an amazing place, and one of the reasons our state is so unique is the incredible diversity of life throughout its length and breadth. This atlas shows what the diversity of life in California is and where such resources are located.
Author : A. Starker Leopold
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520310599
The universal spread of civilization has encompassed the wildness of California. While some of the original ecosystems have been preserved, others have been reduced to tattered remnants. Rich and varied habitats, with their plants and animals, are gone forever, destroyed by the conversion of valley lands to agriculture, the damming of streams, the cutting of forests, the paving of meadows. Wild California makes a persuasive argument for identifying and protecting areas of unspoiled California before they disappear. This is a stunning photographic guide to the six major California regions--from the Sierra Nevada to the desert--and their wildlife. To A. Starker Leopold, conservationist, naturalist, wildlife biologist, and educator, the delicate balance between plants, animals, and humans in each community is precious and fragile. In a highly readable style that mingles authority and eloquence, Leopold reminds us of th aesthetic, educational, and scientific values of undeveloped land. Tupper Ansel Blake, naturalist and wildlife photographer, has contributed one hundred color images that marvelously convey the special beauties of this state. Fortunately, the rich legacy of early California can still be found, and Tupper Blake's images with Starker Leopold's words are powerful evidence that this wilderness is worth preserving for future generations.
Author : Judith Larner Lowry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520933873
Judith Lowry's voice and experiences make a rich matrix for essays that include discussions of wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, wildland seed-collecting, principles of natural design, and plant/animal interactions. This lyrical and articulate mix of the practical and the poetic combines personal story, wildland ecology, restoration gardening practices, and native plant horticulture.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Animals
ISBN : MINN:31951D01228568Z
Author : Eleanor Spicer Rice,Alex Wild,Rob Dunn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226445816
Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects—with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark—as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike, ants decompose dead wood, turn over soil (in some places more than earthworms), and even help plant forests by distributing seeds. But while fewer than thirty of the nearly one thousand ant species living in North America are true pests, we cringe when we see them marching across our kitchen floors. No longer! In this witty, accessible, and beautifully illustrated guide, Eleanor Spicer Rice, Alex Wild, and Rob Dunn metamorphose creepy-crawly revulsion into myrmecological wonder. Emerging from Dunn’s ambitious citizen science project Your Wild Life (an initiative based at North Carolina State University), Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants provides an eye-opening entomological overview of the natural history of species most noted by project participants—and even offers tips on keeping ant farms in your home. Exploring species from the spreading red imported fire ant to the pavement ant, and featuring Wild’s stunning photography, this guide will be a tremendous resource for teachers, students, and scientists alike. But more than this, it will transform the way we perceive the environment around us by deepening our understanding of its littlest inhabitants, inspiring everyone to find their inner naturalist, get outside, and crawl across the dirt—magnifying glass in hand.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : IOWA:31858036876815
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1398 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11547769
Author : American Pomological Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Fruit-culture
ISBN : PSU:000019059068