Green Versus Gold
Subtitle: Sources In California's Environmental History
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: June 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9781559635790
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Management of land & natural resources; Nature/Ecology; Conservation Of Natural Resources (General); Nature; Environmental Studies; Natural Resources; History; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; United States - State & Local - General; Science / Environmental Science; Effect of human beings on; California; Environmental conditions; Human ecology
First sentence: The great Sierra Nevada Mountains were still all before us, and we had many miles to make, up this [Carson] River, before the ascent was fairly begun. . . .