The evolving landscape Book

	Foreword
	Preface and Acknowledgments
	An Iconoclast on the Loose	1
	Southern California
	Introduction	15
	Purpose in the Southern California Landscape	18
	A Late Recounting of the Vizcaino Expedition and Plans for the Settlement of California	26
	Proprietary Rights to Fruit on Trees Growing on Residential Property	37
	Baja California
	Introduction	43
	Desert Genocide	47
	Historical Sources for a Contact Ethnography of Baja California	55
	The Baja California Highway	71
	Latin America
	Introduction	83
	The Cultural Vitality of the Guajira Indians of Colombia and Venezuela	89
	The Subsistence Problem in Mesoamerican History	96
	Hillside Farms, Valley Ranches: Land-Clearing Costs and Settlement Patterns in South America	106
	The Natural History of a Mine	114
	Indian Societies and Communities in Latin America: A Historical Perspective	136
	The Immortality of Latin American States	147
	Flora and Fauna
	Introduction	155
	Man's Impact on the Southern California Flora	161
	Human Impact on the Biota of Mediterranean-Climate Regions of Chile and California	169
	The Introduction of Date Palms into Baja California	178
	Recovery of Desert Vegetation	182
	Man's Impact on the Several Regions with Mediterranean Climates	185
	Linguistics
	Introduction	197
	Athapaskan Expansion in the Southwest	200
	Miracle Mile	213
	Calendar Dates as Street Names in Asuncion, Paraguay	215
	Coromuel and Pichilingue	221
	Deserts
	Introduction	227
	Desertification - A World Problem	232
	Divergent Trends in Agricultural Productivity on Two Dry Islands: Lanzarote and Fuerteventura	236
	Evaluations of Dryland Environments by Societies at Various Levels of Technical Competence	243
	The Turno in Northern Chile: An Institution for Defense against Drought	253
	The Head of the Colorado Delta	265
	Native Environments
	Introduction	299
	Aboriginal Use of Fire in Areas of Mediterranean Climate	303
	Environment and Ecology in the "Northern Tonto" Claim Area	314
	Terrain and Ecological Conditions in the Western Apache Range	335
	Wildlands and Wilderness
	Introduction	353
	People, Recreation, Wild Lands, and Wilderness	358
	People Are No Damn Good	366
	The Evolution of a Wild Landscape and Its Persistence in Southern California	368
	Notes	397
	Publications of H. Homer Aschmann	427
	Contributors	435
	Index	437