1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911076441603321

Titolo

To increase the compensation of letter carriers in the village delivery service. June 6 (calendar day, June 15), 1934. -- Ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : [publisher not identified], , 1934

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 page)

Collana

Senate report / 73rd Congress, 2nd session. Senate ; ; no. 1443

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial set no. 9770]

Altri autori (Persone)

McKellarKenneth Douglas <1869-1957> (Democrat (TN))

Soggetti

Legislative amendments

Wages

Postal service - Employees

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911090612703321

Autore

Minnich Richard A

Titolo

California's fading wildflowers : lost legacy and biological invasions / / Richard A. Minnich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008

ISBN

9786612359378

9781282359376

1282359371

9780520934337

0520934334

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

582.1309794

Soggetti

Biological invasions - California

Plant invasions - California

Wild flowers - California

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-336) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The golden state -- Pre-Hispanic herbaceous vegetation -- Invasion of Franciscan annuals, grazing and California pasture in the nineteenth century -- A century for bromes and the fading of California wildflowers -- Lessons from the Rose Parade -- App.1. Location of Franciscan campsites, Franciscan place names, and modern place names -- App.2. Spanish plant names for California vegetation -- App.3. Selected earliest botanical collections of exotic annual species in California -- App.4. References to wildflowers in the Los Angeles Times, The Desert magazine, and the Riverside Press Enterprise.

Sommario/riassunto

Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-ranging array of sources-from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American botanists in the nineteenth century, newspaper accounts in the twentieth century, and modern



ecological theory-to give the most comprehensive historical analysis available of the dramatic transformation of California's wildflower prairies. At the same time, his groundbreaking book challenges much current thinking on the subject, critically evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses were once a dominant feature of California's landscape and instead arguing that wildflowers filled this role. As he examines the changes in the state's landscape over the past three centuries, Minnich brings new perspectives to topics including restoration ecology, conservation, and fire management in a book that will change our of view of native California.