Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources garden design The recommendations are simple: pick

The recommendations are simple: pick the right plants for pollinators

Plant Characteristics Family Name Agavaceae Species Name Agave shawii var

We all recognize the California Quail

and trees that support bees

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources garden design The recommendations are simple: pickJohn Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold todaythat much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple flowers carpeting the Central Valley were the fertile gardens of the Sierra Miwok and Valley Yokuts Indians, modified and made productive by centuries of