Trees in Paradise A California History

Name: Trees in Paradise A California History
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ISBN: 9780393078022

ISBN-10: 0393078027

ISBN-13: 9780393078022

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jared Farmer

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Brown was the dominant hue of California, a largely treeless landscape in the 1850s. American settlers quickly began to “improve” the scene, planting millions of trees to creategroves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities. A century later eucalypts defined the look of lowland California; profitable citrus colonies dominated the Southland; and graceful palms spoke of Los Angeles style. Meanwhile, the old-growth redwood forests of the North Coast became infrastructure, transformed by the saw teeth of American enterprise.This new landscape was no paradise: eucalypts exploded in fire; orange groves froze on cold nights; palms harbored rats and dropped heavy fronds on streets below. Disease,…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/28/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 592
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.96" long x 0.16" tall
Weight: 2.486

Jared Farmer, a Utah native and former Californian, is the author of On Zion's Mount, a landscape history awarded the prestigious Parkman Prize for literary excellence. He teaches history at Stony Brook University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.



Introduction



Redwoods: The Value of Longevity



Twilight of the Giants


Debut of the Big Tree


American Remains


Land Going to Waste


Consuming the Redwoods



The Perpetual Last Stand


Saving the Redwoods


Clean Logging


Park Politics


Old-Growth Crusade



Eucalypts: The Taxonomy of Belonging



Immigration and Naturalization Acclimatizing with Blue Gum


New Varieties, New Authorities


Boom and Bust


Sense of Place



Natives, Aliens, and (Bio)diversity


Putting Out Fires


Tree Hazards


California Native Plants


Invasion of the Nonnatives


Sense of Place, Again



Citruses: The Industry of Growth



Orange Revolution


Special Fruit


The Citrus Belt


Problems of Plenty


Tree Workers


Managerial Control



Cultural Costs


Laboratories in the Grove


To Smudge Or Not to Smudge


Subdivide and Uproot


Bugs in the System



Palms: The Ecology of Style



Cosmopolitan Fronds


Domestic Exotica


Street Trees and City Boosters


Flora of the Stars



Aesthetic Infrastructure


Sunbelt Design


Wilted Crowns


The Plasticity of Trees


Beyond L.A.


Epilogue


Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Species


Further Reading


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits


Notes


Index