Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources garden design Found locally in Verdugo and

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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources garden design Found locally in Verdugo andJohn Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold todaythat much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of