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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources Paperback / softback - 2013

by M. Kat Anderson

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Paperback / softback. New. Demonstrates, what John 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.
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  • Title Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
  • Author M. Kat Anderson
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 558
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
  • Date 2013-10-10
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780520280434
  • ISBN 9780520280434 / 0520280431
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.7 in (22.61 x 14.73 x 4.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects History, California
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.708

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From the rear cover

"This is a highly significant--one might argue revolutionary--book. It, and the author's previous research, has the potential to completely change the way western land managers relate to the land and the resources they are trying to regulate. Even more, it has the power to influence the way that all of us approach Nature and will reinforce the importance of Native Americans and the sophistication of their knowledge."--Nancy J. Turner, University of Victoria

"Tending the Wild is an enormously rich and highly readable text on the remarkably diverse land management techniques practiced by California Indians over millennia. This book serves as an invaluable resource as we strive to conserve California's enormous cultural and biotic heritage in the new century. A triumph!"--Michael H. Horn, California State University Fullerton

"Tending the Wild supports the little-known fact that Indian groups in California historically practiced a kind of "environmental bonsai" through their centuries long management activities. Kat Anderson's work is timely and will make an important contribution toward a better understanding of the historic ecologies of North America."--Greg Cajete, University of New Mexico

About the author

M. Kat Anderson is a Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis; Associate Ecologist at the Agricultural Experimental Station at the University of California, Davis; and a faculty member in the Graduate Group in Ecology at the University of California, Davis. She is coeditor, with T. C. Blackburn, of Before the Wilderness: Native Californians as Environmental Managers (1993) and coeditor, with Henry T. Lewis, of Forgotten Fires: Native Americans and the Transient Wilderness by Omer C. Stewart (2002).

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