[ ⋇ ]  [ F 1 , 1 ]  ~ But a reassessment of the record in California reveals that land management systems have been in place here for at least twelve thousand years— ample time to affect the evolutionary course of plant species and plant communities. These systems extend beyond the manipulation of plant populations for food. Traditional management systems have influenced the size, extent, pattern, structure, and composition of the flora and fauna within a multitude of vegetation types throughout the state. When the first Europeans visited California, therefore, they did not find in many places a pristine, virtually uninhabited wilderness but rather a carefully tended “garden” that was the result of thousands of years of selective harvesting, tilling, burning, pruning, sowing, weeding, and transplanting. (Kat Anderson, Tending the Wild )