Covers the Ground
The Bee-Pastures
Notes from a Native Daughter
Tom Hothem
CORE Connection
100
Made a reference in "The Bee-Pastures" by Snyder.
Who is John Muir?
100
During these months the honey-bloom bed is booming in the great central plain of California.
What is Spring?
100
The discovery of gold in California that caused the beginning of urbanization in Sacramento was this.
What is the gold rush?
100
California state animal that no longer inhabits California.
What is the grizzly bear?
100
This is a reflection and reproduction of our culture, regardless of if its popular.
What is music?
200
This land consisted of blossoming almond orchard acres.
What is the great central valley?
200
Muir spent a lot of time outdoors in this season. The season in which he said was by no means gloomy.
What is winter?
200
When referring to "the Valley" in Los Angeles, most people assume that you mean the San Fernando Valley, but in fact, it is called this valley.
What is the Central Valley?
200
This place is near UC Merced, as stated by Hothem, and is also known as Merced Falls.
What is the Merced River Gorge?
200
"Those who travel slower may make greater progress than those who travel faster but stray from the road." Is a quote from this author.
Who is Descartes?
300
The several human causes that depleted the natural state of the the land.
What is technology?
300
The bee-pasture was like one sheet of plant gold.
What is the central garden?
300
This outside party lacks the knowledge of the culture of Sacramento.
Who are the children of the aerospace engineers?
300
According to Tom Hothem in lecture, this famous writer articulates the rapid development and vastly different climate change within California.
Who is Mark Twain?
300
California has lost 90% of these types of wetlands which Merced has one of the largest.
What are vernal pools?
400
"All the ground was covered with radiant corollas ankle-deep."
What is honey-bloom?
400
This plant is referred to as the king of the mints.
What is salvia carduacea?
400
The Holy Land resembles this city in the type and diversity of its agricultural products.
What is Sacramento?
400
This is an excellent indicator of our attitudes toward the environment.
What is language place description?
400
The kit fox is one of California's endangered species and because it is being assisted by humans, it lacks this evolutionary process.
What is natural selection?
500
"Covered with mobile homes, pint sized housing, johnny on the spots, concrete freeways..." Hint: What is _______ progress?
What is human progress?
500
"The undoubtedly coming when the entire area of this noble valley will tilled like a garden."
What is time?
500
"A town which has never had more people or more money," has lost this.
What is raison d'etre?
500
The interpretation of social standards based on a person's way of seeing through their specific worldview lens.
What is perspective?
500
"Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep." Is a quote from Carl Sagan's book "Can we know the Universe," from this American essayist.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?