The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area Hiking By examining fungi on their

By examining fungi on their own terms

and hummingbirds

and caterpillar stages

More than 300 photographs of native plants

which is especially useful for the casual encounter with backyard fungi

The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area Hiking By examining fungi on theirTwo hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San FranciscoMonterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds with a sound like that of a hurricane. This land of inexpressible fertility, as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America. The