Natural History Of The Islands Of California

Author : Allan A. Schoenherr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520239180
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural History of the Islands of California written by Allan A. Schoenherr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book on California's islands that deals with their natural history and geology as well as the history of human habitation.

Author : Allan A. Schoenherr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520069218
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of California written by Allan A. Schoenherr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-12-16 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes introductory chapters on basic ecology and geology to familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants, and animals in each distinctive region of California and shows how the state's natural history is uniquely interwoven with its human history.

Author : Todd J. Braje
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442278587
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands through Time written by Todd J. Braje and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the remarkable history of one of the jewels of the US National Park system California’s Northern Channel Islands, sometimes called the American Galápagos and one of the jewels of the US National Park system, are a located between 20 and 44 km off the southern California mainland coast. Celebrated as a trip back in time where tourists can capture glimpses of California prior to modern development, the islands are often portrayed as frozen moments in history where ecosystems developed in virtual isolation for tens of thousands of years. This could not, however, be further from the truth. For at least 13,000 years, the Chumash and their ancestors occupied the Northern Channel Islands, leaving behind an archaeological record that is one of the longest and best preserved in the Americas. From ephemeral hunting and gathering camps to densely populated coastal villages and Euro-American and Chinese historical sites, archaeologists have studied the Channel Island environments and material culture records for over 100 years. They have pieced together a fascinating story of initial settlement by mobile hunter-gatherers to the development of one of the world’s most complex hunter-gatherer societies ever recorded, followed by the devastating effects of European contact and settlement. Likely arriving by boat along a “kelp highway,” Paleocoastal migrants found not four offshore islands, but a single super island, Santarosae. For millennia, the Chumash and their predecessors survived dramatic changes to their land- and seascapes, climatic fluctuations, and ever-evolving social and cultural systems. Islands Through Time is the remarkable story of the human and ecological history of California’s Northern Channel Islands. We weave the tale of how the Chumash and their ancestors shaped and were shaped by their island homes. Their story is one of adaptation to shifting land- and seascapes, growing populations, fluctuating subsistence resources, and the innovation of new technologies, subsistence strategies, and socio-political systems. Islands Through Time demonstrates that to truly understand and preserve the Channel Islands National Park today, archaeology and deep history are critically important. The lessons of history can act as a guide for building sustainable strategies into the future. The resilience of the Chumash and Channel Island ecosystems provides a story of hope for a world increasingly threatened by climate change, declining biodiversity, and geopolitical instability.

Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0395069629
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.

Author : Frank J. Hein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239185
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Catalina Island written by Frank J. Hein and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year-round escape for one million annual tourists, Catalina Island is gaining popularity as a world-class eco-destination. Eighty-eight percent of the island is under the watch of the Catalina Island Conservancy, which preserves, manages and restores the island's unique wild lands. Bison, foxes and bald eagles are its best-known inhabitants, but Catalina is home to more than sixty other animal and plant species that exist nowhere else on earth. And they are all within the boundaries of one of the world's most populous regions: Los Angeles County. Biologists Frank Hein and Carlos de la Rosa present a highly enjoyable tour through the fascinating origins, mysterious quirks and ecological victories of one of the West Coast's most remarkable places.

Author : Frederic Caire Chiles
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149221
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California's Channel Islands written by Frederic Caire Chiles and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-known islands on the horizon of twenty-first century Southern California. This chain of eight islands is home to a biodiversity unrivaled anywhere on Earth. In addition, the Channel Islands reveal the complex geology and the natural and human history of this part of the world, from the first human probing of the continent we now call North America to modern-day ranchers, vineyardists, yachtsmen, and backpackers. Not far below the largely undisturbed surface of these islands are the traces of a California that flourished before historical time, vestiges of a complex forager culture originating with the first humans to cross the Bering Land Bridge and spread down the Pacific coast. This culture came to an end a mere 450 years ago with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and missionaries, whose practices effectively depopulated the archipelago. The largely empty islands in turn attracted Anglo-American agriculturalists, including Frederic Caire Chiles’s own ancestors, who battled the elements to build empires based on cattle, sheep, wine, and wool. Today adventure tourism is the heart of the islands’ economy, with the late-twentieth-century formation of Channel Islands National Park, which opened five of the islands to the general public. For visitors and armchair travelers alike, this book weaves the strands of natural history, island ecology, and human endeavor to tell the Channel Islands’ full story.

Author : Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Islands written by Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia L. Hunter
Publisher : University of Hawaii at Manoa
ISBN 13 : 9781952460012
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands written by Cynthia L. Hunter and published by University of Hawaii at Manoa. This book was released on 2020 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirty-eight selections in this book, newly edited by Cynthia L. Hunter, provide a fresh and up-to-date synthesis of the rich knowledge that comprises the natural history of the Hawaiian Islands. From sea mounts to sea birds, mauka to makai, the articles here offer insights to the unparalleled geological, biological, and historical processes that make these islands unique and fascinating.

Author : Allan A. Schoenherr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520909915
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of California written by Allan A. Schoenherr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-12-16 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan Schoenherr describes a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California will familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants and animals in each distinctive region of the state.

Author : Gerald J. Bakus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432775506
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural History of Santa Catalina Island written by Gerald J. Bakus and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GERALD J. BAKUS, Ph.D., is Professor of Biology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He has more than five decades of experience in the fields of biology and ecology. He obtained training in terrestrial biology as an undergraduate student, freshwater biology as a master's degree student, and marine biology for his Ph.D. at the University of Washington, Seattle. In addition to his many published research and review articles, Dr. Bakus is the author of Coral Reef Ecosystems (1994), Quantitative Analysis of Marine Biological Communities (2007), Natural History of Oregon (2009), and Natural History of California (2011). The book titled Natural History of Santa Catalina Island was developed from a multimedia CD developed at the University of Southern California. It was based on a course titled Ecology and Natural History of California offered at Santa Catalina Island in January. Dr. Bakus teaches general ecology, marine biology, natural history of California, and quantitative biology. The principal reason for producing this book is to make people aware of this remarkable island and receive enjoyment from observing its great natural beauty.