Land of Chamise and Pines
Author: Richard A. Minnich
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998-11-04
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780520915886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn marked contrast to California's landscape of urban sprawl, expansive agriculture, and wildlands altered by protectionist management systems, many landscapes in neighboring Baja California would still be recognizable to the first European explorers. This book shows that the vegetation of present-day Baja California is remarkably similar to that observed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and that historical fire and grazing management has done little to alter the region's resilient mediterranean-type shrublands and forests.