Elwood Robert (Jim) Blakley was a Grounds Superintendent at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. He collected plants, mainly herbs. He was a naturalist and an historian. Karen Barnette was a Cultural Resources Special with the Los Padres National Forest Service. Jim Blakley and Karen Barnette co-authored the paper, “Historical Overview of Los Padres National Forest, 1898-1945.”
This book is out of print but is available online. It follows the “History of Los Padres National Forest” written by William S. Brown in 1948.
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Blakley, J.E., and K. Barnette. 1985. Historical overview of Los Padres National Forest. Los Padres Interpretive Association, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- cited in Jones, Gregory, “Coast redwood fire history and land use in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California” (2014). Master’s These. 4469. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.r77x-cnnk
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