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When Spanish explorer Don Juan Baptista de Anza of Tubac

It is a world apart from the lands west of the Sierra Nevada

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The Great California Story covers it all

Shaping the Sierra - Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West colorado desert wildflowers When Spanish explorer Don JuanThe rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change. The Sierra Nevada landscape has always been valued for its bounty of natural resource commodities, but new residents and an ever growing flood of tourists to the area have transformed the relationship between the region's nature and its culture. In an engaging narrative that melds the personal with the professional, Timothy P. Duanewho grew up