List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 • Few Safe Harbors: Peter M. Douglas’s Formative Years
2 • California’s Coast: Its Origins and Pre-Commission
Development
3 • Sea Change: California’s Environmental Surge
4 • Coastal Conservation, Politics, and a New Commission
5 • High Tide: Th e Executive Director Years
6 • Ebb Tide: Th e Receding Years
7 • Footprints in Sand: Peter Douglas’s Legacy
Appendix A: A Selected Time Line: California Coastal Conservation
and Peter Douglas
Appendix B: A Selected List of Peter Douglas’s Accomplishments and
Honors
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Thomas J. Osborne is Emeritus Professor of History at Santa Ana College, where he received the inaugural Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award. He earned his PhD in history from Claremont Graduate University and is the author and coauthor of several scholarly books, including "Empire Can Wait": American Opposition to Hawaiian Annexation, 1893-1898 and Pacific Eldorado: A History of Greater California.
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