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A complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation. John Muir was an early proponent of a vie
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John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But
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California Indians and Their Environment
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