Author: Leandro Miranda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692798720
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Reservoir Fish Habitat Management
Author: Leandro Miranda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692798720
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692798720
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Tending the Wild
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.
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.
History of Whiteside County, Illinois
Author: Charles Bent
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ISBN:
Category : Whiteside County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whiteside County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Iowa Official Register
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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The California Water Atlas
Author: California. Dept. of Water Resources
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780913232682
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Originally published in 1979, The California Water Atlas, a monument of 20th century cartographic publishing, has been scanned and put online for free public access by the David Rumsey Map Collection. Linda Vida, Director of The Water Resources Center Archives of the University of California asked David Rumsey and Cartography Associates to scan and make available to the public this extraordinary book. The copyright holder, the California Governor's Office of Planning and Research, agreed to allow free public access online. The book was digitized at very high resolution so the resulting images can be explored, revealing all the amazing detail in the many diagrams, maps, and illustrations that accompany the extensive text. The original work was a collaborative effort involving many individuals in and outside the government of then Governor Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr., including William L. Kahrl, Project Director and Editor; William A. Bowen, Cartography Team Director; Stewart Brand, Advisory Group Chairman; Marlyn L. Shelton, Research Team Director; David L. Fuller and Donald A. Ryan, Principal Cartographers; and many others who contributed to the project. ~ David Rumsey Map Collection blog, January 21, 2010.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780913232682
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Originally published in 1979, The California Water Atlas, a monument of 20th century cartographic publishing, has been scanned and put online for free public access by the David Rumsey Map Collection. Linda Vida, Director of The Water Resources Center Archives of the University of California asked David Rumsey and Cartography Associates to scan and make available to the public this extraordinary book. The copyright holder, the California Governor's Office of Planning and Research, agreed to allow free public access online. The book was digitized at very high resolution so the resulting images can be explored, revealing all the amazing detail in the many diagrams, maps, and illustrations that accompany the extensive text. The original work was a collaborative effort involving many individuals in and outside the government of then Governor Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr., including William L. Kahrl, Project Director and Editor; William A. Bowen, Cartography Team Director; Stewart Brand, Advisory Group Chairman; Marlyn L. Shelton, Research Team Director; David L. Fuller and Donald A. Ryan, Principal Cartographers; and many others who contributed to the project. ~ David Rumsey Map Collection blog, January 21, 2010.
History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers
Author: Lyman G. Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Discovery of the Yosemite
Author: Lafayette Houghton Bunnell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Preliminary Determination of Epicenters
Author:
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Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Captivity of the Oatman Girls
Author: Royal Byron Stratton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The Presbyterian Church in Iowa, 1837-1900
Author: Joseph Welton Hubbard
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ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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