Gardeners of Eden: Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature Gardeners of Eden

Dan Dagget believes that humanity can have a positive effect on the land. He demonstrates case after case of positive human engagement in the environment and of managed ecosystems and restored areas that are richer, more diverse, and healthier than unmanaged ones. Much of pre-Columbian America, he contends, was not a pristine wilderness but an ancient garden managed over millennia by native peoples who shaped the plant and animal communities around them to the mutual benefit of all. Dagget recommends a new kind of environmentalism based on management, science, evolution, and holism, and served by humans who enrich the environment even as they benefit from it. His new environmentalism offers hopeful solutions to the current ecological crisis and a new purpose for our human energies and ideals. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the earth and anyone seeking a viable way for our burgeoning human population to continue to live upon it. None None LIVING LIKE BEES, BEAVERS, AND WOLVES None None THE PINK PANTHER PEOPLE.A LOST TRIBE AMONG US. THE LEAVE-IT-ALONE ASSUMPTION.MAKING A SCANDAL IN EDEN None None STRAIGHT AS A RIFLE SHOT COUNTERFEIT ICONS (FALSE ADVERTISING) STEPPING OUT FROM BEHIND THE BLINDERS None None DON'T RUN OVER NONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER (IT'S A PRETTY BAD SCORE, TOO) SPILLOVER SYNERGIES None None EFFECTIVE RAINFALL HOW MANY TIMES ARE WE GOING TO None None None DON'T YOU SMELL THAT SMELL? RESTORING ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD None None WATER RISES TO LIFE TERRA PRETA REVISITED None None None MAKING HOME HOME AGAIN GETTING NATIVES TO INVADE INVASIVES None None None THE MYTH OF NATURAL FIRE FIRE THAT'S WARM AND FUZZY None None None ORGANIC, NATURAL, GRASS-FED AND PASTURE-RAISED THE CONFLICT ECONOMY None None None YOU CAN'T SELL IT UNLESS YOU CAN MEASURE IT ULTRIGHTS, QUADS, AND IPACS REINTRODUCING OURSELVES TO NATURE None TOWARD A NEW ENVIRONMENTALISM A COLLEGE COURSE ON EDEN A UNIFIED ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY None EPILOGUE The author believes that humanity can have a positive effect on the land. He demonstrates case after case of positive human engagement in the environment and of managed ecosystems and restored areas that are richer, more diverse, and healthier than unmanaged ones. Much of pre-Columbian America, he contends, was not a pristine wilderness but an ancient garden managed over millennia by native peoples who shaped the plant and animal communities around them to the mutual benefit of all. He recommends a new kind of environmentalism based on management, science, evolution, and holism, and served by humans who enrich the environment even as they benefit from it. His new environmentalism offers hopeful solutions to the current ecological crisis and a new purpose for our human energies and ideals. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the earth and anyone seeking a viable way for our burgeoning human population to continue to live upon it Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction - You Can't Have Your Cake unless You Eat It, Too -- Chapter One - Pink Panthers and Lost Tribes -- Chapter Two - Evidence of Gardeners in Eden -- Chapter Three - Echoes of Eden-Beyond Symbiosis to Synergy -- Chapter Four - Droughtbusters -- Chapter Five - Lub-Dub -- Chapter Six - Learning on the Fringe -- Chapter Seven - Return of the Natives -- Chapter Eight - Eden in Flames -- Chapter Nine - The Economics of Eden -- Chapter Ten - Building a New Economy for Eden -- Chapter Eleven - Becoming Native Again-Toward a New Environmentalism -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author and Photographer The argument over how we should live in relation to the rural and remote lands of the American West hasn’t changed much in more than a century. By Dan Dagget ; With Photography By Tom Bean. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.