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Book Synopsis Forest Tree Culture in California by : Robert Edwards Carter Stearns
Download or read book Forest Tree Culture in California written by Robert Edwards Carter Stearns and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of the decade 1872-82 during which 150 thousand Australian eucalyptus trees planted in California.
Book Synopsis Trees in Paradise: A California History by : Jared Farmer
Download or read book Trees in Paradise: A California History written by Jared Farmer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From roots to canopy, a lush, verdant history of the making of California. California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and civic reformers began to "improve" the bare, brown countryside, planting millions of trees to create groves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities. They imported the blue-green eucalypts whose tangy fragrance was thought to cure malaria. They built the lucrative "Orange Empire" on the sweet juice and thick skin of the Washington navel, an industrial fruit. They lined their streets with graceful palms to announce that they were not in the Midwest anymore. To the north the majestic coastal redwoods inspired awe and invited exploitation. A resource in the state, the durable heartwood of these timeless giants became infrastructure, transformed by the saw teeth of American enterprise. By 1900 timber firms owned the entire redwood forest; by 1950 they had clear-cut almost all of the old-growth trees. In time California’s new landscape proved to be no paradise: the eucalypts in the Berkeley hills exploded in fire; the orange groves near Riverside froze on cold nights; Los Angeles’s palms harbored rats and dropped heavy fronds on the streets below. Disease, infestation, and development all spelled decline for these nonnative evergreens. In the north, however, a new forest of second-growth redwood took root, nurtured by protective laws and sustainable harvesting. Today there are more California redwoods than there were a century ago. Rich in character and story, Trees in Paradise is a dazzling narrative that offers an insightful, new perspective on the history of the Golden State and the American West.
Book Synopsis Report on the Big Trees of California by : United States. Forest Service
Download or read book Report on the Big Trees of California written by United States. Forest Service and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Distribution of Forest Trees in California by : James R. Griffin
Download or read book The Distribution of Forest Trees in California written by James R. Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distribution of 86 forest and woodland tree taxa native to California is illustrated on maps. Descriptive notes relate the distribution of each species to its ecological and taxonomic context, including the plant communities in which the tree commonly appears. Nearly one-fourth of the species illustrated are restricted to California, and the distribution of many others is centered in the State. Supplement contains corrigenda and addenda.
Book Synopsis The Distribution of Forest Trees in California by : James R. Griffin
Download or read book The Distribution of Forest Trees in California written by James R. Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Forests and Woodlands by : Verna R. Johnston
Download or read book California Forests and Woodlands written by Verna R. Johnston and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-06-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From majestic Redwoods to ancient Western Bristlecone Pines, California's trees have long inspired artists, poets, naturalists—and real estate developers. Verna Johnston's splendid book, illustrated with her superb color photographs and Carla Simmons's detailed black-and-white drawings, now offers an unparalleled view of the Golden State's world-renowned forests and woodlands. In clear, vivid prose, Johnston introduces each of the state's dominant forest types. She describes the unique characteristics of the trees and the interrelationships of the plants and animals living among them, and she analyzes how fire, flood, fungi, weather, soil, and humans have affected the forest ecology. The world of forest and woodland animals comes alive in these pages—the mating games, predation patterns, communal life, and the microscopic environment of invertebrates and fungi are all here. Johnston also presents a sobering view of the environmental hazards that threaten the state's trees: acid snow, ozone, blister rust, over-logging. Noting the interconnectedness of the diverse life forms within tree regions, she suggests possible answers to the problems currently plaguing these areas. Enriched by the observations of early naturalists and Johnston's many years of fieldwork, this is a book that will be welcomed by all who care about California's treasured forests and woodlands.
Book Synopsis Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees by : Ellwood Cooper
Download or read book Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees written by Ellwood Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bradley Bibliography: Forestry. 1914 by : Alfred Rehder
Download or read book The Bradley Bibliography: Forestry. 1914 written by Alfred Rehder and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Site Preparation for Forest Regeneration in California by : J. M. Buck
Download or read book Site Preparation for Forest Regeneration in California written by J. M. Buck and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wild Trees written by Richard Preston and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air. Until recently, redwoods were thought to be virtually impossible to ascend, and the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered. In The Wild Trees, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored. The canopy voyagers are young—just college students when they start their quest—and they share a passion for these trees, persevering in spite of sometimes crushing personal obstacles and failings. They take big risks, they ignore common wisdom (such as the notion that there’s nothing left to discover in North America), and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air. The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called “fire caves.” Thick layers of soil sitting on limbs harbor animal and plant life that is unknown to science. Humans move through the deep canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing that the price of a small mistake can be a plunge to one’s death. Preston’s account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of nonfiction narrative. The author shares his protagonists’ passion for tall trees, and he mastered the techniques of tall-tree climbing to tell the story in The Wild Trees—the story of the fate of the world’s most splendid forests and of the imperiled biosphere itself.
Book Synopsis A Simplified Manual of Interesting California Trees of Forest, Desert, and City by : Mildred Bell Lewis
Download or read book A Simplified Manual of Interesting California Trees of Forest, Desert, and City written by Mildred Bell Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forest Trees of California by : Albert Kellogg
Download or read book Forest Trees of California written by Albert Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Big Trees of California by : Galen Clark
Download or read book The Big Trees of California written by Galen Clark and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tree Planting for California Forests and Farms by : California. Division of Forestry
Download or read book Tree Planting for California Forests and Farms written by California. Division of Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Once and Future Forest: California's Iconic Redwoods by :
Download or read book The Once and Future Forest: California's Iconic Redwoods written by and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Trees of San Francisco by : Michael Sullivan
Download or read book The Trees of San Francisco written by Michael Sullivan and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Sullivan loves his adopted city of San Francisco, and he loves trees. In The Trees of San Francisco he has combined his passions, offering a striking and handy compendium of botanical information, historical tidbits, cultivation hints, and more. Sullivan's introduction details the history of trees in the city, a fairly recent phenomenon. The text then piques the reader's interest with discussions of 71 city trees. Each tree is illustrated with a photograph--with its common and scientific names prominently displayed--and its specific location within San Francisco, along with other sites; frequently a close-up shot of the tree is included. Sprinkled throughout are 13 sidelights relating to trees; among the topics are the city's wild parrots and the trees they love; an overview of the objectives of the Friends of the Urban Forest; and discussions about the link between Australia's trees and those in the city, such as the eucalyptus. The second part of the book gets the reader up and about, walking the city to see its trees. Full-page color maps accompany the seven detailed tours, outlining the routes; interesting factoids are interspersed throughout the directions. A two-page color map of San Francisco then highlights 25 selected neighborhoods ideal for viewing trees, leading into a checklist of the neighborhoods and their trees.
Book Synopsis Forest Statistics for Del Norte County, California, 1965 by : Daniel D. Oswald
Download or read book Forest Statistics for Del Norte County, California, 1965 written by Daniel D. Oswald and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
