ARTICLES

A list of my published articles and reports. Most are about indigenous landscape management and useful plants. Each can be downloaded as a PDF. These articles are based upon eyewitness accounts of early white explorers, missionaries, and settlers in archives; unpublished and published anthropological field notes and ethnographies; analysis and interpretation of jars of plant parts, bundles of plant materials, and finished artifacts in museums; results of ecological field experiments; and most importantly, interviews with indigenous people in different Tribes.

 

1. Anderson, M.K. 2018. The Use of Fire by Native Americans in California. In: Fire in California’s Ecosystems. J.W. van Wagtendonk, N.G. Sugihara, S.L. Stephens, K.E. Shaffer, A.E. Thode, and J.A. Fites-Kaufman (eds.). Second Edition. U.C.Press, Berkeley. (pdf)

2. Anderson, M.K. and J.E. Keeley. 2018. Native People’s Relationship to the California Chaparral. Pages 79-121 in: Valuing Chaparral: Ecological, Socio-Economic, and Management Perspectives. E.C. Underwood et. al.(eds.). Springer Series on Environmental Management (pdf)

3. Long, J.W., R.J. Gutteriez, J.J. Lackey, and M.K. Anderson. 2017. Managing California Black Oak for Tribal Ecocultural Restoration. Journal of Forestry 115(5):426-434. (pdf)

4. Anderson, M.K. 2016. The Original Medicinal Plant Gatherers & Conservationists. Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation Spring: 26-29. (pdf)

5. Anderson, M.K. 2016. Yerba Santa, A Medicinal Plant Extraordinaire. Amah Mutsun Tribal Publication. (pdf)
6. Anderson, M.K. 2016. Letter from the Guest Editor. Fremontia: Journal of the California Native Plant Society 44(3):3-5. (pdf)

7. Anderson, M.K. 2016. Geophytes and Human Evolution. Fremontia: Journal of the California Native Plant Society 44(3):39-41. (pdf)

8. Anderson, M.K. and F.K. Lake 2016. Beauty, Bounty, and Biodiversity: The Story of California Indians’ Relationship with Edible Native Geophytes. Fremontia: Journal of the California Native Plant Society 44(3):44-51. (pdf)

9. Long, J., M.K. Anderson, L. Quinn-Davidson, R.W. Goode, F.K. Lake and C.N. Skinner. 2016. Restoring California Black Oak Ecosystems to Support Tribal Values and Wildlife. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-252. Albany, CA: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 110 p. (pdf)

10. Anderson, M.K. and J. Rosenthal. 2015. An Ethnobiological Approach to Reconstructing Indigenous Fire Regimes in the Foothill Chaparral of the Western Sierra Nevada. Journal of Ethnobiology 35(1):4-36. (pdf)

11. Anderson, M.K. 2014. Introduction to Omer Stewart’s Article. Journal of Fire Ecology 10(2):1-3. (pdf)

12. Anderson, M.K. and F. K. Lake 2013. California Indian Ethnomycology and Associated Forest Management. Journal of Ethnobiology 33(1):33-85. (pdf)

13. Anderson, M.K., J. Effenberger, D. Joley, and D.J. Lionakis Meyer. 2012. Edible Seeds and Grains of California Tribes and the Klamath Tribe of Oregon in the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology Collections, University of California, Berkeley. USDA NRCS, National Plant Data Team. (pdf)

14. Anderson, M.K. and T. Oakes, 2012. Plant Guide for Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens). USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Plants Data Team. Davis, California 95616. (pdf)

15. Anderson, M.K., T. Oakes, and E.J. Rogers 2012. Plant Guide for Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris P. Mill.). USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Plants Team. Davis, CA 95616. (pdf)

16. Anderson, M.K. and E. Wohlgemuth. 2012. California Indian proto-agriculture: its characterization and legacy. In Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability, eds. Paul Gepts, Thomas R. Famula, Robert L. Bettinger, Stephen L. Brush, Ardeshir B. Damania, Patrick E. McGuire, and Calvin O. Qualset. pp. 190-224. Cambridge University Press, U.K. (pdf)

17. Anderson, M.K. 2011. The American Indian Stewardship of Root Foods in the Eastern United States and the Potential for Involving Eastern Tribes in Conservation Planning with NRCS. USDA NRCS PLANTS Team East National Technology Support Center. (pdf)

18. Anderson, M.K. 2011. Plant Guide for small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos). USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Plant Data Center. Greensboro, NC 27401. (pdf)

19. Anderson, M., 2011. Plant Guide for bog Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum). USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Plant Data Team. Greensboro, NC. (pdf)

20. Anderson, M.K. and T. Oakes, 2011. Plant Guide for Giant Cane Arundinaria gigantea. USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Plants Team. Davis, CA 95616. (pdf)

21. Anderson, M.K. 2009. The Ozette Prairies of Olympic National Park: Their Former Indigenous Uses and Management Final Report to Olympic National Park Port Angeles, Washington. (pdf)

22. Anderson, M.K. 2007. Native American Uses and Management of California’s Grasslands. Pages 57-66 in: California Grasslands: Ecology and Management. M. Stromberg, J. Corbin, and C. D’Antonio, editors. University of California Press, Berkeley. (pdf)

23. Anderson, M.K. 2007. Oak Technote. Indigenous Uses, Management, and Restoration of Oaks of the Far Western United States. Technical Note No. 2. USDA NRCS National Plant Data Center. (pdf)

24. Anderson, M.K. 2003. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: An Important Facet of Natural Resources Conservation Technical Note No.1. USDA NRCS National Plant Data Center. (pdf)

25. Anderson, M.K. and M.G. Barbour. 2003. Simulated indigenous management: a new model for ecological restoration in national parks. Ecological Restoration 21(4):270-278. (pdf)

26. Egan, D. and M.K. Anderson. 2003 Introduction Theme Issue: Native American Land Management Practices in National Parks. Ecological Restoration 21(4):245-246. (pdf)

27. Wray, J. and M.K. Anderson 2003. Restoring Indian-set fires to prairie ecosystems on the Olympic peninsula, Washington. Ecological Restoration 21(4):297-302. (pdf)

28. Anderson, M.K. 2001. The contribution of ethnobiology to the reconstruction and restoration of historic ecosystems. Pages 55-72 In: The Historical Ecology Handbook: A Restorationist’s Guide to Reference Ecosystems. D. Egan and E.A. Howell (eds.). Island Press, Washington, D.C. (pdf)

29. Anderson, M.K. 1999. The fire, pruning, and coppice management of temperate ecosystems for basketry material by California Indian tribes. Human Ecology 27(1):79-113. (pdf)

30. Anderson, M.K. and D.L. Rowney. 1999. The edible plant Dichelostemma capitatum: its  vegetative reproduction response to different indigenous harvesting regimes in California.  Restoration Ecology 7(3):231-240. (pdf)

31. Bonnicksen, T.M., M.K. Anderson, H.T. Lewis, C.E. Kay, and R. Knudson. 1999. Native American influences on the development of forest ecosystems. Pages 439-470 In: Ecological Stewardship: A Common Reference for Ecosystem Management. R.C. Szaro, N.C. Johnson, W.T. Sexton and A.J. Malk (eds.). Volume II. Elsevier Science. (pdf)

32. Anderson, M.K. and D.L. Rowney. 1998. California geophytes: ecology, ethnobotany, and conservation. Fremontia 26(1):12-18. (pdf)

33. Anderson, M.K. 1997. Tribal horticulture, maintenance of biodiversity, and park boundary issues. National Parks and Protected Areas: Selection, Delimitation, and Management. J. J. Pigram and R.C. Sundell (eds.). Centre for Water Policy Research, University of New England, New South Wales. (pdf)

34. Anderson, M.K.1997. From tillage to table: the indigenous cultivation of geophytes for food in California. Journal of Ethnobiology 17(2):149-169. (pdf)

35. Anderson, M.K.1997. California’s endangered peoples and endangered ecosystems. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 21:3(7-31). (pdf)

36. Anderson, M.K. and M.G. Barbour, and V. Whitworth. 1997. A world of balance and plenty: land, plants, animals, and humans in a pre-European California. Pages 12-47 in: Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. R.A. Gutierrez and R.J. Orsi (eds).  University of California Press, Berkeley. (pdf)

37. Anderson, M.K. 1996. Tending the wilderness. Restoration and Management Notes 14(2):154-166. (pdf)

38. Anderson, M.K. 1996. The ethnobotany of deergrass, Muhlenbergia rigens (Poaceae): its uses and fire management by California Indian tribes.  Economic Botany 50(4):409-422. (pdf)

39. Anderson, M.K. and M.J. Moratto. 1996. Native American Land-Use Practices and Ecological Impacts. Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final report to Congress, vol. II. Assessments and Scientific Basis for Management Options.  Davis: University of California, Centers for Water and Wildland Resources. (pdf)

40. Anderson, M.K. 1994. Prehistoric anthropogenic wildland burning by hunter-gatherer societies in the temperate regions: a net source, sink, or neutral to the global carbon budget? Chemosphere 29(5):913-934.  Pergamon.  Elsevier Science Ltd. (pdf)

41. Anderson, M.K.1993. The mountains smell like fire. Fremontia. Journal of the California Native Plant Society 21(4):15-20. (pdf)

42. Anderson, M.K. 1993. Rekindling Indian-Land Relationships. California Indian Basketweavers Association Newsletter. December. p. 10. (pdf)

43. Anderson, M.K. 1993. The caretaking of deergrass. California Indian Basketweavers Association Newsletter. June. pp. 5-7. (pdf)

44. Franco, H. 1993. That Place Needs a Good Fire. News From Native California 7(2):17-19. (pdf)

45. Anderson, M.K. 1992. At home in the wilderness. News from Native California Vol. 6(2). Berkeley. (pdf)

46. Anderson, M.K. 1992. From burns to baskets. News from Native California Vol. 6(2). Berkeley. (pdf)

47. Anderson, M.K. 1992. Restoring deer grass. News From Native California Vol. 6(2). Berkeley. (pdf)

48. Anderson, M.K. 1991. Plant gathering as a conservation strategy: learning from California’s earliest resource managers. In Proceedings: Natural Areas and Yosemite: Prospects for the Future. (pdf)

49. Anderson, M.K. 1991. California Indian horticulture: management and use of redbud by the Southern Sierra Miwok. Journal of Ethnobiology 11(1):145-157. (pdf)

50. Anderson, M.K. 1991. “We are still here:” Tribal recognition for the Southern Sierra Miwok. Yosemite. Yosemite Association.  Vol. 53(4) pp. 1-5. (pdf)

51. Anderson, M.K. and G.P. Nabhan. 1991. Gardeners in Eden. Wilderness Magazine 55(194):27-30. (pdf)

52. Anderson, M.K. 1990. California Indian Horticulture. Fremontia Vol. 18(2). p. 7-14. [take out other articles] (pdf)

53. Anderson, M.K. 1990. Yosemite’s native plants and the Southern Sierra Miwok. Yosemite. Yosemite Association. Vol. 52(3). p. 12-15. (pdf)