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    Trees in Paradise: The Botanical Conquest of California

    by Jared Farmer

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    • ISBN-13: 9781597143929
    • Publisher: Heyday Books
    • Publication date: 03/28/2017
    • Sales rank: 210,697
    • Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.80(d)

    Table of Contents

    Introduction xvii

    Part 1 Redwoods: The Value of Longevity 1

    Chapter 1 Twilight of the Giants

    Debut of the Big Tree 7

    American Remains 23

    Land Going to Waste 31

    Consuming the Redwoods 44

    Chapter 2 The Perpetual Last Stand

    Saving the Redwoods 60

    Clean Logging 72

    Park Politics 80

    Old-Growth Crusade 90

    Part 2 Eucalypts: The Taxonomy of Belonging 109

    Chapter 3 Immigration and Naturalization

    Acclimatizing with Blue Gum 115

    New Varieties, New Authorities 130

    Boom and Bust 138

    Sense of Place 155

    Chapter 4 Natives, Aliens, and (Bio)diversity

    Putting Out Fires 168

    Tree Hazards 179

    California Native Plants 190

    Invasion of the Nonnatives 202

    Sense of Place, Again 213

    Part 3 Citruses: The Industry of Growth 221

    Chapter 5 Orange Revolution

    Special Fruit 227

    The Citrus Belt 239

    Problems of Plenty 249

    Tree Workers 257

    Managerial Control 266

    Chapter 6 Cultural Costs

    Laboratories in the Grove 278

    To Smudge or Not to Smudge 291

    Subdivide and Uproot 307

    Bugs in the System 321

    Part 4 Palms: The Ecology of Style 333

    Chapter 7 Cosmopolitan Fronds

    Domestic Exotica 339

    Street Trees and City Boosters 346

    Flora of the Stars 367

    Chapter 8 Aesthetic Infrastructure

    Sunbelt Design 384

    Wilted Crowns 398

    The Plasticity of Trees 408

    Beyond L.A. 417

    Epilogue 431

    Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Species 439

    Further Reading 445

    Acknowledgments 455

    Illustration Credits 459

    Notes 461

    Index 523

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    At the intersection of plants and politics, Trees in Paradise tells a story of ecological mythmaking and conquest. After the gold rush, the Americans who claimed California were dissatisfied with the state's wetlands, grasslands, and chaparral. In just one century, they transformed those landscapes according to the aesthetic values and economic interests of settlers, urban planners, and boosters. In Southern California, entrepreneurs amassed fortunes from vast citrus groves; in the Bay Area, speculators invested in nonnative eucalyptus, only to let their plantations go wild; and across the state, developers and designers used palms to sell the California Dream to tourists and homebuyers. Meanwhile, thousands of old-growth redwoods were logged to satisfy an insatiable suburban demand. Revealing differing visions of what the Golden State should be, this natural and unnatural history unravels the network of forces that shape our sense of place.

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