NATAMST 90 Lecture 1: American Indian Land-Use Practices and Ecological Impacts
23 Jan 2019
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- m. kat anderson & michael j. moratto. Sustainability: defined in terms of conserving cultural as well as biological diversity. Ecological vacuum or disequilibrium in sierra nevada from departure of native. Relevance of native american environmental history to sierra nevada ecosystem. Created recent evolutionary modifications in flora through human selection for certain traits. Instigators of ecosystemic change with varying degrees of intensity. Objective is to investigate and understand native cultural processes that drove biological diversity and shaped ecosystem states & to unravel ecological principles embedded in ancient land-management systems. The study of native american land-management practices. Traditional knowledge of former abundances, composition, density, and quality of plant & animal species extends to time periods before advent of governmental land management. West side: maidu, konkow, nisenan, northern sierra miwok, central sierra. Miwok, southern sierra miwok, foothill yokuts, western mono, and tu batulabal. East side: northern paiute, washoe, and owens valley paiute. Late prehistoric/protohistoric sierran peoples were organized into village communities .
