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    • By: John McPhee
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California.

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    • Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
    • By: Rosanna Xia
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Along California's coastline, the Pacific Ocean is rising and pressing in, imperiling both wildlife and the maritime towns and cities that millions of people call home. As climate chaos threatens the places we love so fiercely, will we finally grasp our collective capacity for change?

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    • The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What It Means for America's Power Grid
    • By: Katherine Blunt
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning, Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer finalist Katherine Blunt examines how that legacy fell apart....

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    • A Story of Passion and Daring
    • By: Richard Preston
    • Narrated by: Richard Preston
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 486 ratings
    • Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained: the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens....

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    • A True Story of Survival and Obsession Among America's Great White Sharks
    • By: Susan Casey
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 325 ratings
    • Journalist Susan Casey was in her living room when she first glimpsed this strange place and its resident sharks, their dark fins swirling around a tiny boat in a documentary....

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    • Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources
    • By: M. Kat Anderson
    • Narrated by: Leslie Howard
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Tending the Wild is an unparalleled examination of Native American knowledge and uses of California's natural resources that reshapes our understanding of native cultures and shows how we might begin to use their knowledge in our own conservation efforts....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Kendra Atleework
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero....

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    • One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
    • By: Lizzie Johnson
    • Narrated by: Lizzie Johnson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds....

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    • Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
    • By: Greg King
    • Narrated by: Galen Osier
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In this definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, journalist and famed redwood activist Greg King examines how investors and a growing US economy drove the timber industry to cut down all but 4 percent of the original two-million-acre redwood ecosystem....

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    • By: Kirk Lombard
    • Narrated by: Kirk Lombard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In The Sea Forager's Guide to the Northern California Coast, Kirk Lombard combines a startling depth of knowledge with wry humor and colorful storytelling to guide listeners' quests to hook fish, dig clams, and pick seaweed for themselves....

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    • By: Joseph Le Conte
    • Narrated by: Jack de Golia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In the summer of 1870, Professor Joseph LeConte (1823-1901), and some of his students at the then brand-new University of California, went on a five-week camping trip on horseback to Yosemite and the High Sierra, including Mono Lake and Lake Tahoe....

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    • The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles
    • By: Chip Jacobs, William J. Kelly
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse - it came from within....

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    • How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon
    • By: Alexandra Morton
    • Narrated by: Katie Ryerson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance....

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    • A Guide to the State & National Parks
    • By: Barbara Sinotte
    • Narrated by: Paul Fanning
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-14
    • Language: English
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    • Take a walk in the park. Or explore a forest, gorge, campground, even a historic site. Spend a week or a weekend. Go biking, hiking, fishing, boating, hunting or cross-country skiing....

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    • A Photographer’s Journey through California’s Megafires and Fallout
    • By: Stuart Palley
    • Narrated by: Stuart Palley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In the tradition of Young Men and Fire and Fire on the Mountain, Stuart Palley’s memoir Into the Inferno documents eight years of devastating wildfire in California, showing how fire can transform a landscape as well as a soul….

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