Deschutes Public Library

Trees in paradise, a California history, Jared Farmer

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-526) and index

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Trees in paradise

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Jared Farmer

a California history

Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles

Part I. Redwoods: the value of longevity : Twilight of the giants : Debut of the big tree ; American remains ; Land going to waste ; Consuming the redwoods -- The perpetual last stand : Saving the redwoods ; Clean logging ; Park politics ; Old-growth crusade -- Part II. Eucalypts: the taxonomy of belonging : Immigration and naturalization : Acclimatizing with blue gum ; New varieties, new authorities ; Boom and bust ; Sense of place -- Natives, aliens, and (bio)diversity : Putting out fires ; Tree hazards ; California native plants ; Invasion of the nonnatives ; Sense of place, again -- Part III. Citruses: the industry of growth : Orange revolution : Special fruit ; The citrus belt ; Problems of plenty ; Tree workers ; Managerial control -- Cultural costs : Laboratories in the grove ; To smudge or not to smudge ; Subdivide and uproot ; Bugs in the system -- Part IV. Palms: the ecology of style : Cosmopolitan fronds : Domestic exotica ; Street trees and city boosters ; Flora of the stars -- Aesthetic infrastructure : Sunbelt design ; Wilted crowns ; The plasticity of trees ; Beyond L.A. -- Epilogue -- Appendix : Common and scientific names of species