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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Author: R.L. Polk & Co
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Category : Capitola (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1030

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Author: California. State Board of Forestry
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Category : Big Basin Redwoods State Park (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1552

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Author: Alexander Hume Ford
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 722

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Author: Effie Price Gladding
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Category : Automobile travel
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Eugene Fodor
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Harriett E. Weaver
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ISBN: 9780977242986
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Languages : en
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Petey Weaver is considered the first woman park ranger in California State Parks. In Me and the Mother Tree, she recounts in vivid prose her 20 years working in at the very beginning of the Calfornia State Park System. She brings to life not only the early parks, but many of the rangers and staff who operated, protected, served and educated the public. Petey served in four parks, Big Basin, Richardson Grove, Pfeiffer Big Sur and Seacliff State Beach, during her park career which spanned from 1929 to 1950.

Author: Bas Verschuuren
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136530746
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western Ghats (India), Sagarmatha /Chomolongma (Mt Everest, Nepal, Tibet - and China), the Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia), Holy Island of Lindisfarne (UK) and the sacred lakes of the Niger Delta (Nigeria). The book illustrates that sacred natural sites, although often under threat, exist within and outside formally recognised protected areas, heritage sites. Sacred natural sites may well be some of the last strongholds for building resilient networks of connected landscapes. They also form important nodes for maintaining a dynamic socio-cultural fabric in the face of global change. The diverse authors bridge the gap between approaches to the conservation of cultural and biological diversity by taking into account cultural and spiritual values together with the socio-economic interests of the custodian communities and other relevant stakeholders.

Author: John Muir
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. The mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the beauties of the Sierras. He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and natural history of the region, ranging from the history of glaciers, the patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of animals and insects. While Yosemite naturally receives great attention, Muir also expounds on less well known beauty spots.