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The South Bay Salt Pond Cultural Landscape: A Biography Presentation by Ellen Joslin Johnck Photos courtesy of Laura Watt Ellen Joslin Johnck South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project Culture and nature have been linked here for over 150 years

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The South Bay Salt Pond Cultural Landscape:

A Biography Presentation

by Ellen Joslin Johnck

Photos courtesy of Laura Watt Ellen Joslin Johnck South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

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Culture and nature have been linked here for over 150 years.

South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project Photos courtesy of Laura Watt Ellen Joslin Johnck

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Phenomenon of the salt pond landscape: a metaphor for the history of the Bay itself

Photos courtesy of Laura Watt Ellen Joslin Johnck South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

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Beginning with small scale salt farming in 1850…

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…evolving into a major industrial complex by 1940

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Cultural and historic resources: archaeological sites, buildings, structures, objects + natural resources = cultural landscape

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  • A tool for critical thinking about peoples’ lives, values and ideas
  • Identify sites of historical events
  • Understand national, social and economic forces shaping the landscape
  • Cultural heritage, environmental tourism, and public interpretation

Cultural landscape analysis

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Cultural landscape analysis

Involves:

  • Historic context
  • Resources inventory
  • Cultural assessment

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Historic context

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Cultural resources:

Pilings, Archimedes Screw

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Cultural resources:

Pilings, bricks, building foundations

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Cultural resources: Archimedes Screw

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Cultural and natural resources:

Drawbridge ghost shacks in marshes

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Cultural and natural resources: Levees, plants

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Cultural resources: Archaeological sites; discovering the tusk of a Columbian mammoth 2006 dated 10,000 BCE

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Prior to European arrival, south bay salt pond landscape was combination of natural processes: tides and currents, rainfall and weather, erosion and sedimentation, tidal mudflats, tidal marshlands, sloughs and pannes interspersed marshlands. Marshes elongated at landward edge of marsh-- salinas. Late summer, salinas had dried out—residue was salt. Ohlones scraped, cooked and traded

  • it. First salt farmers adapted this technique.

The Landing

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The Landing

20th century, salinas were transformed from marsh to ponds

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The Landing

1930: ponds became the world’s largest industrial salt evaporation system

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The Landing

Landing as a natural landform became grid for salt industry and other agriculture industry, and future local marine and landward transportation routes

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The Landing

Bayward endings and beginnings of roads are present-day regional street and highway system reflecting the cultural adaptation of the Bay and the public’s inheritance.

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What are the outcomes of a cultural landscape analysis?

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Outcomes:

  • 1. Help understand engineering basics for restoration

design

  • 2. Richer, more meaningful understanding of the historical

process

  • 3. Increased knowledge about valuable and disappearing

resources—the last frontier

  • 4. Public interpretation on S. F. Bay Trail
  • 5. Inclusive approach to public land management for

sustained use by people and wildlife.

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A sense of wonder and awe….

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Ellen.Johnck@gmail.com Master’s Degree in Cultural Resources Management Sonoma State University, May,2008

Questions?