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the many streams and tributaries of larger rivers wandered over lands shaded by graceful oaks and peppered with water-loving plants such as willow and cattail as well as sun-loving plants such as toyon and sage

By Harry C

Katherine Siva Sauvel

Before the Wilderness - Soft Copy QuickBooks and YavapaiBefore the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians By That landscape the newcomers saw was not a wilderness, not untouched by nature. It was a landscape carefully managed by knowledgeable people to provide them with food, clothing, shelter, fuel, and tools. It was a landscape where the wilderness came later after Euro Americans had stopped the controlled burning the Indians had practiced, drained the wet meadows that had preserved