Green Versus Gold
Subtitle: Sources In California's Environmental History
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: June 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9781559635806
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; United States - State & Local - General; History; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology; Nature; Human ecology; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Natural Resources; Science / Environmental Science; California; Effect of human beings on; Environmental conditions
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. . . .