To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org, lbsaltzman@aol.com
Subject: [permaculture] Tending the Wild, was Wood Ash
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:58:54 -0500
lbsaltzman wrote:
I just finished a brilliant book by an ethno-ecologist a woman named
M. Kat Anderson from U.C. Davis. The book is called Tending the
Wild. It is an in depth look at the horticultural and animal
management practices of the native peoples of California. Burning
was one of the their favorite techniques for interrupting succession
and increasing the biodiversity of plants that were useful to them
and to the animals that were also useful to the people. Can't
recommend this book to highly.
Thanks for that book recommendation. A while back I read a book
called 'Changes to the Land' by William Cronon, published in '83. It
sounds like Tending the Wild is a west coast version of that book!
It's out of print and hard to find, but really great- and after
reading it you won't look at the landscape the same way!
[permaculture] Tending the Wild, was Wood Ash,
tom, 12/18/2006