Wildland Heritage Webinar Recording

Overview

Featured Speakers & Topics

• Rita Comes Whitney - Moderator and President of PVNU
• Nan Shostak, Portola Valley resident, MS Geology, and PVNU treasurer - The Earth Speaks: a brief geologic history of Portola Valley
• Valentine Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band - Indigenous Land Stewardship: Healing and Hope
• Christopher Lowman, Lecturer in Anthropology and Archeology - Archeology Serving Living Communities
• Dr. Mary Hufty, MD, Portola Valley resident, Secretary of PVNU, and an environmentalist. - Portola Valley and Earth Day: 50 Years of Hard Work Together

Resources

The Earth Speaks: a brief geologic history of Portola Valley

References for speaker: Nan Shostak, Portola Valley resident, MS Geology, and PVNU treasurer

• Seismic Safety on the Jasper Ridge tectonic uplift https://pvnu.org/the-hermit-fault.
• AEG Field Trip Guidebook: Seismic Hazard of the Range Front Thrust Faults, Northeastern Santa Cruz Mountains/Southwestern Santa ClaraValley, Drew G. Kennedy and Christopher S. Hitchcock, eds., Association of Engineering Geologists, San Francisco Section, March 27, 2004.
  AEG, San Francisco Section, Field Trip Guidebook,March 2004
• Geologic Map, Town of Portola Valley, San Mateo County, California Ground Movement Potential Map, Town of Portola Valley, San Mateo County, California, Cotton, Shires and Associates, Inc., June 2017.
  https://www.portolavalley.net/building-planning/geologic-ground-movement-potential-maps
• Map of Quaternary-active Faults in the San Francisco Bay Region, R.W. Graymer, William Bryant, C.A. McCabe, Suzanne Hecker, and C.S. Prentice, U.S. Geological Survey, 2006.
  https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/2006/2919/
• Structural Geologist’s Detailed Report on the Hermit Fault: Mapping of the Hermit Fault, Michael Angell, October 2020.
  https://pvnu.org/the-hermit-fault
• Northeast Pacific and Western North American Plate Tectonic History, Animation, Tanya At Water, 1998.
   https://www.facebook.com/IRISEarthquake/videos/10156553707349974/
• Life on the San Andreas Fault: A History of Portola Valley, by Nancy Lund and Pamela Gullard, Scottwall Associates, San Francisco, 2003. The San Andreas Fault in the San Francisco Bay Area, California: A Geology Field trip Guidebook to Selected Stops on Public Lands, Open-File Report 2005-1127, P.W. Stoffer, US Geological Survey, 2005.
  http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1127/
• A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906, Simon Winchester, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2005.

Indigenous Land Stewardship: Healing and Hope

References for Speaker: ValentinLopez President of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust and Chair of the Amah MutsunTribal Band

• An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, Benjamin Madley, 2016.
• As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, 2019.
• Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources M. Kat Anderson, 2005.
• Indigenous Land Management, Amah Mutsun Land Trust, November 20, 2020.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3sA7bck9bE
  (Ground-breaking work by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band on sacred fire and its role in renewing land.)
• Narratives of Persistence:Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California, Lee M. Panich, Amah Mutsun Speaker Series "Critical MissionStudies Research: Telling the Truth", November 7, 2020.
• Tending the Wild, Christine Yuan, director, Austin Simons, producer, KCET, September 16, 2016.
  https://www.kcet.org/shows/ tending-the-wild
• A Cross of Thorns, The Enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions by Elias Castillo, 2015.
• Chairman Lopez believes this to be the most accurate history of the California missions. It was written by a retired (now deceased) reporter from Palo Alto.

Archeology Serving Living Communities

References for speaker Christopher Lowman, PhD, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University

• Land Acknowledgement – ask for appropriate acknowledgement of the land’s heritage. There is much that is not understood and is discoverable. Portola Valley is, as far as we currently know, on the traditional, unceded, and ongoing homelands of the Ramaytush.
  ‍https://native-land.ca/
• Decolonizing archeology- collaboration, decentering of colonial history, foregrounding of Indigenous knowledge production, acknowledging primacy of Indigenous interests and researchers’ colonial lens.
• Reciprocity (benefits more than the researcher), Relationality (build relationships of many kinds), Responsibility (needs of many addressed), Redistribution (power is not primarily researchers’).
• Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and Archeologists Uncover Ancient Practices, YouTube, August 9, 2018.
  ‍https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncYQRgZJAb0
• Traditional Ecological Knowledge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, February 2011.
  https://www.fws.gov/nativeamerican/pdf/tek-fact-sheet.pdf

Portola Valley and Earth Day: 50 Years of Hard WorkTogether

References for speaker Mary Hufty, MD, Portola Valley resident and environmentalist.

• https://www.earthday.org/
• Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution, Paul R.Ehrlich and Peter H. Raven, JSTOR, June 1964.
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/2406212?seq=1
• The Story of The First Earth Day 1970: How Grassroots Activism Can Change Our World, Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey, Jr., Eaglet Books, 2020.
• How Earth Day gave birth to environmental movement: Denis Hayes, one of the event’s founders, recalls the first and how its influence spread, Christina Pazzanese, The Harvard Gazette, April 17, 2020.
  https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/denis-hayes-one-of-earth-days-founders-50-years-ago-reflects/
• Pete McCloskey reflection the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The world is celebrating 50 years of Earth Day. Meet the man who made it happen, Rocky Barker, April22,2020.
  https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/environment/article242170416.html
• Life on the San Andreas Fault: A History of Portola Valley,  Nancy Lund and Pamela Gullard, Scottwall Associates, San Francisco, 2003.
• San Francisquito Watershed & Alluvial Fan.
  http://explore.museumca.org/creeks/1460-SFrancisquitoWS.html