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Main Title Before the wilderness environmental management by native Californians /
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Blackburn, Thomas C.
Anderson, Kat
Publisher Ballena Press,
Year Published 1993
OCLC Number 27679838
ISBN 0879191279 : 0879191260 (pbk.) :
Subjects Indians of North America--California--Economic conditions ; Human ecology--California ; Environmental management--California ; Indians of North America--Agriculture--California
Holdings
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Status
ERAM  E78.C15B45 1993 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 07/30/2014
Collation 476 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. {401}-464) and index.
Contents Notes
Some explanations for the rise of cultural complexity in native California with comments on proto-agriculture and agriculture / by Lowell J. Bean and Harry W. Lawton -- Patterns of Indian burning in California / by Henry T. Lewis -- Vegetation burning by the Chumash / by Jan Timbrook, John R. Johnson, and David D. Earle -- Native Californians as ancient and contemporary cultivators / by Kat Anderson -- "The basket is in the roots, that's where it begins" / by David W. Peri and Scott M. Patterson -- Contemporary California indian basketweavers and the environment / by Bev Ortiz -- Managing oaks and the acorn crop / by Helen McCarthy -- Quality food / by Glenn Farris -- Bow staves harvested from Juniper trees by indians of Nevada / Philip J. Wilke -- Fuel use and resource management / by Chester King -- Ritual management of Salmonid fish resources in California / by Sean L. Swezey and Robert F. Heizer -- Agriculture among the Paiute of Owens Valley -- Kumeyaay plant husbandry / by Florence Shipek.