A Natural History of California
A Natural History of California

Author: Allan A. Schoenherr

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-07-03

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 0520964551

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In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan A. Schoenherr describes the natural history of California—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 focuses on each distinctive region, addressing its climate, rocks, soil, plants, and animals. The second edition of this classic work features updated species names and taxa, new details about parks reclassified by federal and state agencies, new stories about modern human and animal interaction, and a new epilogue on the impacts of climate change.

Fishes of the Great Basin
Fishes of the Great Basin

Author: John W. Sigler

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 0874170133

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Naturalists and recreational anglers will welcome the paperback edition of this comprehensive volume, first published in 1986, which describes every species in the lakes and streams of the Great Basin. Includes an updated checklist of established species, discussion of threatened and endangered species, glossary, bibliography, and index.

Tahoe Heritage
Tahoe Heritage

Author: Sessions S Wheeler

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 1997-04-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0874174325

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Tahoe Heritage is a lively chronicle of four generations of the pioneering Bliss family, beginning with Duane L. Bliss, a visionary who built an impressive lumbering business and later the renowned Glenbrook Inn. The inn was completed in 1907 and quickly became a destination for the elite of San Francisco. The hotel register contains the names of national figures who loved and frequented Glenbrook: Ulysses Grant, Joaquin Miller, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Clark Gable, and Rita Hayworth, to name a few. The Bliss family closed the inn in 1976. Anyone who has visited the Tahoe area, now a very different place from the idyllic days of Bliss family management, will enjoy this account of its growth and the remarkable family which brought it about.