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| List of Maps and Illustrations | |
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| Introduction: The Fate of Nature in the Golden State | |
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| California's Natural Environment | |
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| Documents | |
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| Sarah Royce Encounters the Sierra Nevada, 1849 | |
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| William Brewer Explores the Central Valley, 1861 | |
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| A Traveller on Settling in California, 1873 | |
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| Mark Twain on Tahoe and Mono Lakes, 1903 | |
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| Mary Austin Appreciates the California Desert, 1903 | |
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| Essays | |
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| California's Geological Past | |
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| Wildlife in Transition | |
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| The Changing Face of the San Joaquin Valley | |
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| Indian Lands | |
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| Documents | |
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| Kate Luckie (Wintu) Deplores the Soreness of the Land, Recorded in 1925 | |
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| Karok Indians on Coyote and Salmon, Recorded in 1930 | |
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| Modoc People Recall Their Arrival in a Basket, Recorded in 1953 | |
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| California Indians on "The Way We Lived," Recorded in 1981 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Native Californian Cultivators | |
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| Aboriginal Fishers | |
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| The Impact of Disease | |
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| Native World Views | |
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| The Spanish and Russian Frontiers | |
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| Documents | |
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| A Spaniard Explores the Southern California Landscape, 1774 | |
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| A Russian Sailor on the Sea Otter Trade, 1813 | |
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| A Historian Chronicles the Return of the Sea Otter, 1938 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Hispanic Water Rights | |
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| Indians Encounter Spaniards | |
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| Sea Otters Encounter Russians | |
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| Environmental Impacts of the Gold Rush | |
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| Documents | |
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| A Traveler Reports on the Gold Country, 1849 | |
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| A Writer Recounts the Difference a Year Makes, 1851 | |
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| A Federal Agent Assesses Mining's Impact on the Indians, 1853 | |
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| A Newspaper Reporter Describes the North Bloomfield Mine, 1879 | |
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| Judge Sawyer Halts Hydraulic Mining, 1884 | |
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| Joaquin Miller on Environmental Deterioration in the Gold Country, 1890 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Mining on Trial | |
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| Mining's Impact on the Land | |
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| Dredging for Gold | |
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| Forests Transformed | |
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| Documents | |
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| A Lumberman on Board-Feet Profits, 1884 | |
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| An Advocate Calls for Forest Preservation, 1903 | |
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| A Woman Recalls the Lumber Camps, 1931 | |
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| Lizzie McGee Describes the Sequoia Mills, 1952 | |
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| Judi Bari Recounts the Timber Wars, 1994 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Myth and Reality of the Humboldt Forests | |
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| Cutting the Sierra Forests | |
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| Resistance to Logging | |
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| Rangelands Exploited | |
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| Documents | |
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| Richard Henry Dana on the Hide and Tallow Trade, 1840 | |
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| Guadalupe Vallejo Recalls the Rancheros, 1890 | |
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| A Rancher Saves the Tule Elk, 1915 | |
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| A Woman Describes the Decline in Range Forage, 1945 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Rangelands | |
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| California's Grazed Ecosystems | |
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| Cattle on a Thousand Hills | |
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| Building the Hydraulic Empire | |
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| Documents | |
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| An Advocate Encounters the Irrigators, 1887 | |
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| A Writer Describes Irrigation Districts, 1897 | |
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| A Novelist Extolls the Watered Land, 1911 | |
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| Critics Evaluate the California Water Plan, 1971 | |
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| An Environmentalist Laments the Loss of Wild Rivers, 1982 | |
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| Reporters Assess the 1982 Reclamation Reform Act, 1988 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Hydraulic Society in California | |
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| When Is a River Not a River? | |
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| Hydraulic Society Triumphant | |
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| From the Family Farm to Agribusiness | |
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| Documents | |
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| Frank Norris on Wooing the Land, 1901 | |
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| Susan Minor Depicts Sisterhood on the Farmlands, 1919 | |
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| John Steinbeck on The Grapes of Wrath, 1939 | |
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| Cesar Chavez Warns of Pesticide Risks, 1993 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Order on the Land | |
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| This Bittersweet Soil | |
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| From the Family Farm to Agribusiness | |
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| Preserving Parks | |
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| Documents | |
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| Lafayette Bunnell Describes the "Discovery" of Yosemite, 1852 | |
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| Congress Grants Yosemite to California, 1864 | |
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| John Muir on Saving Hetch-Hetchy Valley, 1910 | |
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| Yosemite Indians Recount Their Origin Story, Recorded in 1927 | |
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| Huey Johnson on Long Live Mono Lake, 1983 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Indian-White Conflicts over Yosemite | |
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| Muir Woods and Hetch-Hetchy Valley | |
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| Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks | |
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| Redwood National Park | |
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| Battles Over Energy | |
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| Documents | |
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| David Pesonen Describes a Visit to an Atomic Park, 1962 | |
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| William Bronson on Electrical Transmission-Line Blight, 1968 | |
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| A Writer on the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill, 1972 | |
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| Martin Goldsmith on Siting Nuclear Power Plants, 1973 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Energy and the Making of California | |
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| Oil and the Environment | |
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| The Battle for Bodega Bay | |
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| Second Nature: California Cities | |
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| Documents | |
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| Samuel Wood and Alfred E. Heller on California Going, Going, ..., 1962 | |
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| Harold Gilliam on the Devil and the Deep Blue Bay, 1969 | |
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| The California Environmental Quality Act, 1973 | |
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| Ester Gulick, Catherine Kerr, and Sylvia McLaughlin on Saving San Francisco Bay, 1988 | |
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| John McPhee Depicts a Debris Slide, 1989 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Los Angeles Air | |
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| Earthquakes and Freeways | |
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| The New Urban Environmentalism | |
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| The Rise of Environmental Science | |
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| Documents | |
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| Eugene Hilgard Describes the Agricultural Experiment Station, 1890 | |
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| An Insect Biologist Tells How Lady-Beetles Saved the Orange Groves, 1958 | |
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| A Conservationist Explains How State Forestry Matured, 1985 | |
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| Starker Leopold on Preserving California's Wildlife, 1985 | |
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| Three Scientists Tell How to Conserve Biodiversity, 1993 | |
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| Essays | |
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| California Scientists and the Environment | |
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| Eugene Hilgard and the Birth of Soil Science | |
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| California Scientists and the Insecticide Crisis | |
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| Restoring California's Vegetation | |
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| Revisioning California: Contemporary Environmental Movements | |
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| Documents | |
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| Ernest Callenbach on Population in Ecotopia, 1975 | |
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| Raymond Dasmann and Peter Berg Advocate Bioregionalism, 1980 | |
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| Bill Devall and George Sessions Explain Deep Ecology, 1982 | |
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| Irene Diamond and Gloria Orenstein on the Emergence of Ecofeminism, 1990 | |
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| Carl Anthony Explains Why African Americans Should Become Environmentalists, 1990 | |
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| Magdelena Avila Tells How Hispanic Farmworkers Stopped an Incinerator, 1992 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Chaos and California | |
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| Grassroots Environmentalism | |
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| A Place in Space | |
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| Conclusion: Environmental Ethics and California's Future | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |