Author: Ron Wendt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781886574014
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Robert LeRoy Santos
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 830

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Author: Peter S. Alagona
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520355547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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This book traces the history of threats to species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. The author shows how, over the course of more than a century, scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as dependent on the ecological conditions and human activities in the places where those species lived. The story begins with the tale of the state's extinct mascot, the California grizzly, and the conservation movements and laws that followed its disappearance. The second half of the book focuses on four high-profile endangered species: the California condor, the desert tortoise, the San Joaquin kit fox, and the Delta smelt. The author offers an account of how Americans developed a civil system in which imperiled species serve as proxies for broader conflicts about the politics of place. The book concludes that the challenge for conservationists in the twenty-first century will be to expand habitat conservation beyond protected wildlands to build more diverse and sustainable landscapes.

Author: Cy Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Part I: Tales of the gold rushes.

Author: Kari Schuetz
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1681034247
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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The wild reputation of Bodie was unmatched in the Old West. The California gold-mining town attracted a rough crowd. Bodie had gamblers, drinkers, gunslingers, and robbers all after riches. This high-interest childrenÕs title includes a wealth of information about the gold rush that once made Bodie a Òget richÓ destination.

Author: Barbara Fifer
Publisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 1560371951
Category : Ghost towns
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Photographs-landscapes, townsites, homes, stores, mining structures.

Author: David Petersen
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 9780805031171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Discusses the possibility of a remnant grizzly population still living in the wilds of Colorado's San Juan Mountains

Author: J.R. Roberts
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1612325009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Jan Cerney
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439651299
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Rising out of the prairie, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming had long been rumored to have promising quantities of gold. Sacred to the Lakota, the Black Hills was part of the land reserved for them in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. However, the tide of prospectors seeking their fortune in the Black Hills was difficult to stem. Members of the 1874 Custer expedition, lead by Gen. George Armstrong Custer, found gold. In 1875, scientists Henry Newton and Walter Jenney conducted an expedition and confirmed the rumors. By 1876, the trickle of prospectors and settlers coming to the Black Hills was a flood. The US government realized that keeping the interlopers out was impossible, and in 1877 the Black Hills was officially opened to settlement. In this sequel to their Black Hills Gold Rush Towns book, the authors expand their coverage of Black Hills towns during the gold-rush era.