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This book traces the changes in the environment, the plants and animals starting with the Ohlone through the colonial period and in the decades since the Gold Rush.
It describes what the flora and fauna were like before the presidio and mission were founded, what plants and animals disappeared and which survived.
There is also discussion of the many introduced species, the landscape changes by humans and the on-going effects of climate change.
There is description of introduced and invasive species and how they have affected the ecology in the San Francisco's limited open space.
Accounts are summarized from the first natural history observations in San Francisco.
These include records that begin with Sir Francis Drake and include the De Anza, Vancouver, Beechey, Rezanov and La Perouse expeditions.
Book includes map of what San Francisco's landscape and streams was like in 1800 before people began making wholesale changes.
EXCERPTS: The want of sufficient level space on which to found so great and growing a city, has been partially rectified, at an enormous expense, by taking building ground from the waters, and by lowering, and in many cases absolutely removing bodily the multitude of sand hills, by which the place is immediately surrounded.
What with digging out and filling up, piling, capping and planking, grading and regrading the streets, and shifting, and rebuilding, and again rebuilding the houses, to suit the altered levels, millions upon millions of dollars have been spent.
-Frank Soule, et al.
, The Annals of San Francisco, 1855 Nature's plan has evolved through millions of years while man's plans for the earth cover a short span of time and are very often both selfish and short-sighted.
-Helen Cruickshank, Thoreau's Birds, 1964 In 1792-1793, Archibald Menzies, the medical officer for the British Expedition, headed by Captain George Vancouver, was immediately taken with the dramatic broad sheet of water that is the bay, described in the epigraph to this chap.
| Excerpts | The want of sufficient level space on which to found so great and growing a city has been partially rectified at an enormous expense by taking building ground from the waters and by lowering and in many cases absolutely removing bodily the multitude of sand hills by which the place is immediately surrounded |
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