This book tells how the Bay area got its green grove. Its most cherished environmentsÂ--Muir Woods, the Napa Valley, Point Reyes, the Carquinez StraitsÂ--have engendered some of the fiercest and most defining environmental battles in this region, and they make up the story recounted here.

Foreword: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally / William Cronon
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: Saving Graces
1. Out of the Woods: Stirrings of Conservation
2. Fields of Gold: Resources at Close Quarters
3. Moving Outdoors: Parks for the People
4. The Upper West Side: Suburbia and Conservation
5. The Green and the Blue: Saving the Bay and the Coast
6. Encounters with the Arch-Modern: Regional Planning and Growth Control
7. Fasten Your Greenbelt: Triumph and Trust Funds
8. Sour Grapes: The Fight for the Wine Country
9. Toxic Landscapes: Beyond Open Space
10. Green Justice: Reclaiming the Inner City
Conclusion: City and Country Reconciled?
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Richard A. Walker is professor of geography and chair of the California Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include The New Social Economy: Reworking the Division of Labor and The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of California Agribusiness.