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Jim Bouldin
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Vegetation ecology; forest and woodland dynamics
Distance sampling and point pattern analysis
Land exploration and surveying
Yosemite, Sierra Nevada, and California in general
A People's History of Wilderness. Matt Jenkins, 2004.
High Country News Books
August 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
There are entries in this thing that I haven't even *heard of*, much less know anything about.
May 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
February 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
February 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
February 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Long live Gary Snyder and his ethos.
February 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Worst book on Muir I've ever seen. Shallow and tendentious, scripted, opinions presented as explanations.
February 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Autumn, 1872
From: Wolfe, L.M. 1938. John of the Mountains. Houghton-Mifflin.
February 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Excellent study on the Loma Prieta mill and the history of logging in the Santa Cruz mountains and general SF area:
February 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Trouble in the Forest, California's Redwood Timber Wars
February 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is a long overdue, but terrific, book by Greg King.

For anyone interested in the California redwood region, and especially it's logging history and what went on in the 1980s and 90s, it is a must read, written by one of the primary participants in, and reporters of, those battles.
February 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Outstanding book:
February 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
February 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The first known climate data from California, as far as I can tell.
Collected over a four-year span at Fort Ross.

From: Gibson, James R. 2013. California through Russian eyes. The Arthur H. Clark Company, Norman Oklahoma.
January 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM