San Bruno Mountain: A Guide to the Flora and Fauna

by David L. Nelson, Doug Allshouse, David Nelson

A deep dive into the Bay Area's ecological treasure trove--and how this wild mountain in our midst was saved.San Bruno Mountain, located in the center of the San Francisco Bay Area, is a four-square mile global treasure--a natural preserve touted by biologist E.O. Wilson as one of the world's rare biodiversity 'hot spots'. Bathed in fog and wind and preserved from destruction by the fierce work of local conservationists, this mountain offers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597145831
• ISBN13: 9781597145831
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Out dated and racist

This book speaks about indigenous people as if they only exist in the past and literally go so far as to refer to sacred shell mound sites as “middens” or trash heaps. If You like your botany to be colonial and racist, by all means pick up this 50 lb book. One such passage: “The Spanish introduced a religion and possessed technology that was well beyond the imagination and comprehension of Native Americans.” This falls into the boring trop of ignoring and invisiblizing indigenous people, and indigenous technology, while positioning Spaniards and colonizers as more evolved than indigenous people. Did Portola write this book himself? Because it speaks with the ignorance and authority of a colonizer from 250 years ago. I guess it’s what I expect from the California Native Plant Society, which in my experience is a bunch of settlers trying to come to terms with their own nature as invasive species by projecting their self hatred onto plants.