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In article <kq4p1lINN33u@agate.berkeley.edu>, map@violet.berkeley.edu (Pollen Lab;103 ESB;38108;2335707;NZ29) writes:
|> In article <9202190410.AA19643@caticsuf.cati.CSUFresno.EDU> cwarner@CATICSUF.CSUFRESNO.EDU (Chris Warner) writes:
|> >
|> >I am interested in learning more about the relatively new (?) subject of
|> >bioregionalism.
|> 
|> 	I'd be interested in references on this subject as well.  The one
|> book I've read on the subject is _Dwellers in the Land_, by Kirkpatrick
|> Sale, 1986 (+/- 1 yr), published by Sierra Club books.  Good overview,
|> it has notes and bibliography in the back.
|> 
|> 	It seems I heard more talk about bioregionalism 3 or 4 years ago--
|> where has it gone?  (Where have *I* gone?)
|> 
|> Eric Edlund
|> U.C.Berkeley Geography
|> eric@pollen1.berkeley.edu
|> *or*
|> map@violet.berkeley.edu

  If you are wishing to learn about the ecology, history, ecologic
history of your local state, there is ussually a lot of popular
press stuff even in the chain bookstores.  There is not one
for all states but I would recommend any of the 
" Roadside Geology of "state"  series.  Certainly the western
ones (Northern California, Oregon, Washington, contain a lot of
information about the earth/soil underpinnings and are very good
at giving a geologic time scale perspective. 
  Various plant and animal guides and almost all of them are
either intorduced or structured with an ecozone approach these
days. 
  On a different tack, if you are looking for stategic information
for activist efforts, you may wish to start with State Agricultural
Extension service and other governemt "analysis/publications/actions"
agencys that collect and disseminate industrial and agricultural
statistics.  Almost all of the agricultural extensions systems 
publish (ussually 1+ years later) annual production statistics,
some have data on interesting inputs like pesticides, fertilyzer and
frequently estimates of losses due to various causes. Good luck,
I think it is easier to drowned in raw information than to have
difficulty finding it. Don't expect (or trust if you find) clear cut
paths of action...remember economy is just a corrupted kind of 
ecology, it discards the externalities and values only man usable
production.