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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
- 019 min
A landscape assembled over time
- 029 min
Why fog, wind, and water change everything
- 039 min
From dunes to tidal marsh
- 049 min
How to read a plant community
- 059 min
Redwoods and the meaning of a forest
- 069 min
Animals as neighbors and participants
- 0710 min
Fire, invasion, and restoration
- 0811 min
Become a careful observer