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Northern California’s Living Landscape

Learn to read San Francisco and Northern California landscapes as connected systems of geology, climate, water, plants, animals and human choices. Follow folded ocean rocks, coastal fog, dunes and marshes, scrub and oak communities, redwood forests and wildlife. Finish with a careful field account that separates observation from inference.

8 chapters · 1 hr 15 min reading

Begin reading

Chapters

  1. 01

    A landscape assembled over time

    9 min
  2. 02

    Why fog, wind, and water change everything

    9 min
  3. 03

    From dunes to tidal marsh

    9 min
  4. 04

    How to read a plant community

    9 min
  5. 05

    Redwoods and the meaning of a forest

    9 min
  6. 06

    Animals as neighbors and participants

    9 min
  7. 07

    Fire, invasion, and restoration

    10 min
  8. 08

    Become a careful observer

    11 min