Deforesting the Earth - From Prehistory to Global Crisis geology to the Kern River Valley

to the Kern River Valley

the regions around Lake Thomas Edison and Vermilion Valley Resort

funded by the once easy money of subprime America

it will continue to be the essential guide to the Sierra Nevada for a new generation of hikers

Deforesting the Earth - From Prehistory to Global Crisis geology to the Kern River ValleyDeforestationthe thinning, changing, and wholesale clearing of forests for fuel, shelter, and agricultureis among the most important ways humans have transformed the environment. Surveying ten thousand years to trace human induced deforestations effect on economies, societies, and landscapes around the world, Deforesting the Earth is the preeminent history of this process and its consequences. Beginning with the return of the forests after the ice age