Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources t-shirt Native to our deserts

Native to our deserts

significant impacts to the health and structural stability of oaks have resulted from urban encroachment

dramatically illustrated first edition of Introduction to Fire in California helped Californians

Emphasizing individual creativity over conventional design

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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources t-shirt Native to our desertsJohn Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold todaythat 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