Dan Flores
speaker
4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What was the climate in the past and how has it changed over time?
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Immerse yourself in the natural history and ecology of the place.
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What wild creatures have played dominant roles in the bioregional landscapes?
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Then dig deeply enough into the local human history to be able to track its sequence of inhabitants through time with a view towards figuring out how they managed the place or how they altered it by their presence.
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Maybe even how art, photography, and literature have captured the spirit of your local place.
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There's a name for this kind of place-based study.
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It's called bioregional history.
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Bioregional history shows that the three very different Western places I've built and lived on were inhabited by native people who were not that similar to one another, but who seem to have managed the places I inherited for generally the same ends.
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the Kiowas, Comanches, and Plains Apaches, who for centuries before me camped in Yellow House Canyon, used fire to beat back mesquite shrubbery and maintain the High Plains Canyons as a country of grasses and forbs for bison and pronghorns.
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Before I took on the onerous task on my Bitterroot Valley place of thinning thickets of young ponderosa pines and eradicating an exotic plant, spotted knapweed,
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that was suffocating my bunch grasses.
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For 2,000 years before me, the Bitterroot Salish had fired the valley to produce an open parkland of widely spaced pines and to maintain those bunch grasses for elk, buffalo, and horses.
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On my Galisteo Valley place in New Mexico, starting 800 years ago, Pueblo people built eight towns up and down the valley,
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not abandoning the last of them till 200 years ago.
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Village-based farmers who located on the tributaries of the Galisteo River, they seem to have left my piece of upland grassland of scattered pinions and junipers a commons for hunting mule deer, pronghorns, and elk.
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As had happened on my Texas and Montana places, their successful management also meant a healthy presence of wolves, bears,
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coyotes, and cats of all kinds.
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In New Mexico, the project for recovering the Pueblo version of a healthy habitat has meant reversing the effects of centuries of overgrazing by Spanish and American settlers who unleashed millions of cattle, sheep, and goats onto this fragile high desert environment.
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The only way to get that Pueblo landscape back is by annually hand-pulling thousands of the classic invading plants of a disturbed West, the infamous tumbleweed or Russian thistle being the primary one.
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Now, though, needle and thread and blue grama grasses and forbs like winter fat are once again becoming a lure on my place for jackrabbits and mule deer,
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