Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources

by M. Kat Anderson

Book Overview

A complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation.

John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today--that 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520280431
• ISBN13: 9780520280434
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"