Californiaís Natural Environment

Primary

Anon. Californiaís Important Fish and Wildlife Habitat: An Inventory. Portland, OR: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1980.

Austin, Mary. Land of Little Rain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950 [1903].

Bishop Chamber of Commerce. Owens River Valley: Inyo County, California, the Field of Opportunity, the Land of Promise. Bishop, CA: Inyo Register Print, 192-.

Blake, William. Geological Report of Exploration and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Under R. S. Williamson. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1853.

Brewer, William H. Up and Down California in 1860-64, the Journal of William H. Brewer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

Clark, Galen. The Big Trees of California, Their History and Characteristics. Yosemite Valley, CA: Galen Clark, 1907.

Cronise, Titus Fey. The Natural Wealth of California, Comprising Early History, Geography, Topography, and Scenery; Climate; Agriculture and Commercial Products... San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft & Company, 1868.

Ellsworth, Rodney Sydes. The Giant Sequoia. Oakland, CA: J.D. Berger, 1924.

Fariss and Smith. History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, California, 1882, and Biographical Sketches of Their Prominent Men and Pioneers. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, rept. 1971.

Farquhar, Francis P. History of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

Foote, Horace S. Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World, or, Santa Clara County, California. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1886.

Foster, Michael S. The Ecology of Giant Kelp Forests in California: A Community Profile. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1985.

Fritz, Emanuel. The Story Told By a Fallen Redwood. Berkeley: Save-the-Redwoods League, 1948.

Griffin, James R., and William B. Critchfield. The Distribution of Forest Trees in California. Berkeley: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1972.

Holland, Robert F. Preliminary Descriptions of the Terrestrial Natural Communities of California. Sacramento: Dept. of Fish and Game, 1986.

King, Clarence. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1861.

Leiberg, John B. Forest Conditions in the Northern Sierra Nevada, California. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Govt. Print. Off., 1902.

Leopold, A. Starker, and Tupper Ansel Blake. Wild California: Vanishing Lands, Vanishing Wildlife. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Manson, Marsden. Observations on the Denudation of Vegetation?A Suggested Remedy for California. San Francisco, 1899.

Merriam, C. Hart. Results of a Biological Survey of Mount Shasta, California, by C. Hart Merriam, Chief of Division of Biological Survey. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1899.

Mooney, H., and C. Conrad, eds. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Environmental Consequences of Fire and Fuel Management in Mediterranean Ecosystems. Washington, D.C.: USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report WO-3, 1977.

Muir, John. My First Summer in the Sierra. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911.

Muir, John. Redwood Mountain. Berkeley, CA: John Muir Association, 1939.

Muir, John. The Yosemite. New York: Century Company, 1912.

Nordhoff, Charles. California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1973.

Plumas County, California: Its Mineral, Forest, Agricultural & Other Resources: An Ideal Summer Resort. Quincy, CA: Plumas County Pub. Co., 1902.

Powell, John Wesley. Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963 [1878].

Royce, Sarah. A Frontier Lady. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977 [1932].

Skinner, John E. Ecological Studies of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary. California Resources Agency: Dept. of Fish and Game, 1972.

Thompson, John, and Edward A. Dutra. The Tule Breakers: The Story of the California Dredge. Stockton, CA: Stockton Corral of Westerners, 1983.

Todd, John. The Sunset Land; or the Great Pacific Slope. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870.

Twain, Mark. Roughing It. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1903.

Warner, Richard E. Riparian Resources of the Central Valley and California Desert. Sacramento: Dept. of Fish and Game, 1985.

Watkins, Carleton E. Photographs, 1861-1874. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 1989.

Watson, Jay. Ecological Characterization of the Central and Northern California Coastal Program. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 1981.
 

Secondary


Anderson, Eugene Newton. Man on the Santa Ana: A Brief Account of Human Management of a Landscape. Riverside, CA: Tri-County Conservation League, 1972.

Axelrod, D.I. History of the Coniferous Forests, California and Nevada. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Bakker, Elna. An Island Called California: An Ecological Introduction to Its Natural Communities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Balls, Edward K. Early Uses of California Plants. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.

Barbour, Michael, et al. Californiaís Changing Landscapes: Diversity and Conservation of California Vegetation. Sacramento: California Native Plant Society, 1993.

Barbour, Michael, et al. Coastal Ecology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

Bartolome, James. "An Ecological History of the California Mediterranean-Type Landscape." Paper presented at the Man and the Biosphere Symposium, Nice, France 1989.

Bass, Ron. "The Troubled Waters of Mono Lake: Unique Ecological Resource or Wasteful Brine Sink?" California Journal (1979).

Blake, Tupper Ansel, and Peter Steinhart. Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: The Natural World of the United States-Mexico Borderlands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Burgess, Sherwood D. "The Forgotten Redwoods of the East Bay." California Historical Society Quarterly 30 (March 1951): 1-14.

Camp, Charles L. Earth Song: A Prologue to History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952.

Carefoot, Thomas. Pacific Seashores: A Guide to Intertidal Ecology. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977.

Chaney, Ralph W. Redwoods of the Past. Berkeley: Save-the-Redwoods League, 1964.

Cox, George W. "The Distribution and Origin of Mima Mound Grasslands in San Diego County, California." Ecology 65, no. 5 (1984): 1397-1405.

Crampton, B. Grasses in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972.

Dailey, Murray D., Donald J. Reish, and Jack W. Anderson, eds. Ecology of the Southern California Blight. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Dasmann, Raymond F. The Destruction of California. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Dasmann, Raymond. Californiaís Changing Environment. San Francisco: Boyd and Fraser, 1981.

Dasmann, W.P. Big Game of California. Sacramento: California Dept. of Fish and Game, 1962.

Dawson, William L. The Birds of California. San Diego, CA: South Moulton Co., 1923.

Doughty, Robin W. "San Franciscoís Nineteenth-Century Egg Basket: The Farallons." Geographical Review 61, no. 4 (1971): 544-72.

Durrell, Cordell. Geologic History of the Feather River Country, California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Felton, Ernest L. Californiaís Many Climates. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1965.

Fradkin, Philip. The Seven States of California: A Natural and Human History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Ginsberg, Jonathan. The Fragile Earth: Environmental Problems of the California Desert. Stanford, CA: Stanford Environmental Law Society, 1976.

Gordon, Burton L. Monterey Bay Area: Natural History and Cultural Imprints. Pacific Grove, CA: Boxwood Press, 1974.

Hall, Clarence A., ed. Natural History of the White-Inyo Range, Eastern California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Harris, Tom. Death in the Marsh [Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge]. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1991.

Haston, L., and J. Michaelsen. "Long-term Central Coastal California Precipitation Variability and Relationships to El Niño?Southern Oscillation." Journal of Climate (September 1994): 1377-88.

Henson, Paul, and Donald J. Usner. The Natural History of Big Sur. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Hill, Mary. Geology of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

Hill, Russell B. California Mountain Ranges. Helena, MT: Falcon Press, 1986.

Hines, Anson H., and John S. Pearse. "Abalones, Shells, and Sea Otters: Dynamics of Prey Populations in Central California." Ecology 63, no. 5 (1982): 1547-60.

Hornbeck, David. California Patterns: A Geographical and Historical Atlas. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1983.

Howard, Arthur D. Geologic History of Middle California, California Natural History Guides. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Huenneke, L.F., and H.A. Mooney, eds. Grassland Structure and Function: California Annual Grassland. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1989.

Hundley, Norris Jr. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, 1770s-1990s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Hunt, Charles B. Death Valley: Geology, Ecology, Archaeology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

Hyndman, David Alt and Donald. Roadside Geology of Northern California. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 1975.

Igler, David B. "When is a River not a River? Reclaiming Natureís Disorder." Environmental History 1, no. 2 (April 1996): 52-69.

Jaeger, E. The California Deserts. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1933.

Johnston, Hank. Thunder in the Mountains: The Life and Times of Madera Sugar Pine. Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books, 1968.

Johnston, Verna R. California Forests and Woodlands: A Natural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Johnston, Verna R. Sierra Nevada. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1970.

Josselyn, Michael. The Ecology of San Francisco Bay Tidal Marshes: A Community Profile. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1983.

Keeley, Jon E. "Role of Fire in Seed Germination of Woody Taxa in California Chaparral." Ecology 68, no. 2 (1987): 434-43.

Kercher, J.R., and M.C. Axelrod. "A Process Model of Fire Ecology and Succession in a Mixed-Conifer Forest." Ecology 65, no. 6 (1984): 1725-42.

Kuhn, G., and F. Shepard. Sea Cliffs, Beaches, and Coastal Valleys of San Diego County. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

Mason, H.L. A Flora of the Marshes of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

Mayfield, David W. Ecology of the Pre-Spanish San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco: Mayfield, 1978.

McBride, Joe, and Diana Jacobs. The Ecology of Redwood and the Impact of Manís Use of the Redwood Forest for Recreational Activities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

McCullough, Dale R. The Tule Elk: Its History, Behavior, and Ecology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Miller, Crane S., and Richard S. Hyslop. California: The Geography of Diversity. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1983.

Minshall, Herbert L. Window on the Sea: A Nostalgic View of the Changing Coastal Environment of the Two Californias. La Jolla, CA: Copley Books, 1980.

Mooney, H., ed. Convergent Evolution in Chile and California: Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems. Stroudsburg: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, 1977.

Moyle, Peter B., and Bruce Vondracek. "Persistence and Structure of the Fish Assemblage in a Small California Stream." Ecology 66, no. 1 (1985): 1-13.

Munz, P.A., and D.D. Keck. A California Flora. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

Neilson, James A. Lake Tahoe Vegetation II: Natural Vegetation Zones. Davis: Institute of Government Affairs, University of California, 1973.

Norris, Robert M., and Robert W. Webb. Geology of California. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1990.

North, W. Underwater California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

OíNeill, Elizabeth Stone. Meadow in the Sky: A History of Yosemiteís Tuolumne Meadows Region. Fresno, CA: Panorama West Books, 1984.

Ornduff, Robert. An Introduction to California Plant Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.

Palmer, Tim, ed. Californiaís Threatened Environment: Restoring the Dream. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993.

Parker, Albert. "Persistence of Lodgepole Pine Forests in the Central Sierra Nevada." Ecology 67, no. 6 (1986): 1560-67.

Postel, Mitchell. "Vigil on the Golden Gate: The Environmental History of the San Francisco Bay since 1850." Ph.D. diss., University of California, 1977.

Powell, J.A., and C.L. Hogue. California Insects. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Preston, William L. Vanishing Landscapes: Land and Life in the Tulare Lake Basin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Pyne, Stephen J. Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997.

Reisner, Marc. "Californiaís Vanishing Wetlands." The Amicus 9, no. 1 (Winter 1987): 8-15.

Remondino, P. Mediterranean Shores of America. New York: F.A. Davis & Co., 1902.

Roberts, Lois J. San Miguel Island: Santa Barbaraís Fourth Island West. Carmel, CA: Cal Rim Books, 1991.

Rowell, Galen. "Falcon Rescue." National Geographic 179, no. 4 (April 1991): 106-16.

Sands, Anne. Riparian Forests of California. Davis, CA: Institute of Ecology, Special Publication No. 15, n.d.

Schoenherr, Allan. A Natural History of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Singer, Michael. Soil Development, Geomorphology, and Cenozoic History of the Northeastern San Joaquin Valley and Adjacent Areas, California. Davis, CA: Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, 1977.

Skinner, J.E. An Historical Review of the Fish and Wildlife Resources of the San Francisco Bay. Sacramento: Water Project Branch Report, California Dept. of Fish and Game, 1962.

Small, A. The Birds of California. New York: Winchester Press, 1974.

Smith, Duane. Mining America: The Industry and the Environment, 1800-1980. Lawrence: Kansas University Press, 1987.

Smith, Felix. "The Changing Face of the San Joaquin Valley." Fremontia 10, no. 1 (1982): 24-.

Smith, Michael L. Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment, 1850-1915. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Smith, S.E., and S. Kato. "The Fisheries of San Francisco Bay: Past, Present, and Future." In San Francisco Bay: The Urbanized Estuary, edited by T. J. Commons, 445-68. San Francisco: Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1979.

Stine, S. "Extreme and Persistent Drought in California and Patagonia During Mediaeval Time." Nature 369 (1994): 546-59.

Storer, Tracy I., and Lloyd P. Tevis, Jr. California Grizzly. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Storer, Tracy L., and Robert L. Usinger. Sierra Nevada Natural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963.

Strong, Douglas H. "Lassen Volcanic National Parkís Manzanita Lake: A Brief History." Pacific Historian 15, no. Fall (1971): 68-82.

Strong, Douglas H. Tahoe: An Environmental History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Walton, John. Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California. Berkeley: University of California, 1992.

Warner, Richard E., and Kathleen M. Hendrix, eds. California Riparian Systems: Ecology, Conservation, and Productive Management. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Warrick, Sheridan F., and Elizabeth D. Wilcox, eds. Big River: The Natural History of an Endangered Northern California Estuary. Santa Cruz, CA: University of California Environmental Field Program, 1981.

Webb, Robert H., John W. Steiger, and Raymond M. Turner. "Dynamics of Mojave Desert Shrub Assemblages in the Panamint Mountains, California." Ecology 68, no. 3 (1987): 478-90.

Webb, Walter Prescott. "The American West, Perpetual Mirage." Harperís Magazine 214 (May 1957).

Westman, Walter. "Diversity Relations and Succession in Californian Coastal Sage Scrub." Ecology 62, no. 1 (1981): 170-84.

Winkler, David W. An Ecological Study of Mono Lake. Davis, CA: University of California Institute of Ecology, 1977.

Zedler, Joy B. The Ecology of Southern California Coastal Marshes: A Community Profile. Washington, D.C.: Fish and Wildlife Service, 1982.

Zedler, Paul H., Clayton R. Gautier, and Gregory S. McMaster. "Vegetation Change in Response to Extreme Events: The Effect of a Short Interval Between Fires in California Chaparral and Coastal Scrub." Ecology 64, no. 4 (1983): 809-18.