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Hiking & History Self-Guided Tours - Podcasts, playlists, PDFs, maps, and videos to take with you to learn on-the-go in Nevada County.

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Authors - writing & editing
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Teachers & Students - Online Education K-16

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FUR, FEATHERS & QUILLS

Bat
Bears
Beaver
Bird's Nest Fungi
Bluebird
Bobcat
Cougar
Coyote
Crayfish
Crow & Ravens
Deer
Eagle
Grizzly
Hummingbird
Lizard
Newt
Porcupine
Opossum
Otter
Owls of Nevada County
Quail
Raccoon
Salmon
Slug
Squirrel
Toad
Tree Frog
Vulture
Woodpecker

SIX & EIGHT LEGS

Cuckoo Wasp
Dragonfly & Damselfly
Bark Beetle
Ladybugs
Pill Bug
Spiders
Tick

PLANTS

Bird's Nest Fungi
Cedar
Buckeye
Gray Pine
Lichen
Mugwort
Oaks
Redbud
Tarplant
Toyon
Willow
Yerba Santa
Invasive Species
Native Plants - Healing Land after Fire

HISTORY

⸙⸙⸙Jennie Carter
Thoughts & Words from Nevada City 1867-1874
Nevada County Setting 1860s, 2nd Marriage & Obituary
Pre-Civil War, Civil War & Reconstruction-era 1846-1870
Filming Behind-the-Scenes & Creative Partners

⸙⸙⸙1840s – 1900
Anthony House
Bear & Bull Fights
Exclusionist Governor
Fires
Fleas & Disease
Flood - 1852
Miners provisions & food prices
Oustomah
Scurvy

⸙⸙⸙Contemporary
Bridges
Fishing & helicopter rescue
Freeway Debates & Historic Preservation 1950's - 1970's
Murder on the Creek – 1944
Managing reservoir levels
Tree Mortality & Falling Hazards

LAND AND WATER

American River Watershed & Lake Tahoe
Broken Promises (Nisenan)
Geology – Gold Formation
Geography
Lake Wildwood
Mining pollution & clean-up
Timbuctoo
Water Origins (Les Nicholson)
World Water Day

BOOK REVIEWS

Diary of a Forty-Niner, Chauncey Canfield
Gold Rush Stories, Gary Noy
History of US: Nisenan Tribe of the Nevada City Rancheria, Richard Johnson
Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West, Eric Gardner
Life on the Plains and Among the Diggins, Alonzo Delano
Resource Page: Book section

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