Mendocino Refuge: Lake Leonard & Reeves Canyon

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Historian Dot Brovarney has been involved in the cultural arts in Mendocino County since 1989. She works as an author and publisher through her business, Landcestry. Her latest book, Mendocino Refuge, explores the interconnected lives of plants, wildlife, and human inhabitants in a hidden watershed in one of Mendocino’s outer North Coast Ranges. It illuminates the regenerative relationship, past and present, between Native Pomo peoples and the land, and tells stories of hardy settlers between the 19th and 21st centuries, including several intrepid women whose efforts saved old growth redwoods in the canyon and at the lake. The book incorporates local artists’ work—poetry, photography, and paintings. Dot’s curatorial background at the Hudson and County Museums include A Passion for Plants & Place: Carl Purdy of Mendocino County; Edward S. Curtis and the Hudsons: Creating the Arts & Crafts Indian; and Remember Your Relations: The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family, and Friends. Her earlier publications are The Sweet Life: Cherry Stories from Butler Ranch, and Remember Your Relations, based in part, on her oral histories with Pomo elders.

Mendocino Refuge is available at Mendocino Book Company, Grace Hudson Museum, Historical Society of Mendocino County, Gallery Bookshop, Guest House Museum, Lost Coast Found, Windsong Books, and the Book Juggler.