By Carolyn Merchant
Eco-friendly as opposed to Gold presents a compelling examine California's environmental background from its local American previous to conflicts and events of modern a long time. Carolyn service provider has introduced jointly fundamental resources and interpretive essays to create a entire photograph of the background of ecological and human interactions.
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Their abundance at the time of European arrival was noted by all who recorded the California wildlife scene. The Spanish, traveling northward from San Diego, first encountered the tule elk in the vicinity of Monterey Bay and then found them in great abundance on the plains and hills surrounding San Francisco Bay. To the extent that they visited the Central Valley, they noted the presence of elk there also. Later visitors were more ecstatic about the great abundance of game in the Central Valley, where the tule elk was the most conspicuous species.
If a floodplain is subdivided for homes, then floodcontrol dams, channels, and storage basins must be constructed. When natural areas are destroyed, man-made parks must substitute for natural Further Readings 33 recreation areas. The unwise destruction of natural drainage and vegetation, and the additional facilities necessitated as a result, represent a huge and unnecessary expense to the taxpayers. FURTHER READINGS Austin, Mary. Land of Little Rain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950 [1903]. Bakker, Elna.
Just as great herds of elk and antelope moved across the plains of the Central Valley in pre-European days, so also did great herds of sea mammals travel above the plains of the continental shelf, moving up the slopes of the islands and occasionally down into the depths of the submarine canyons. The abundance and variety of these sea mammals were greater than those of their terrestrial counterparts. However, they included no grazing herbivores equivalent to deer or mountain sheep. Some fed on the floating plankton, some on the fish who fed on the plankton, and some on the mammals that fed on the fish that fed on the plankton.