Creative Preservation in California's Dairy IndustryFootnote^*

* This research was supported by U.S. Department of Agriculture National Research Initiative Grant #9801611. Special thanks to our coinvestigators Louise Nelson Dyble, Louise Fortmann, Matt Gerhart, Lynn Huntsinger, Nancy Peluso, and Steven Wolf for valuable ideas and discussion; to Laura Watt for crucial insights into the history and politics of Point Reyes National Seashore; to three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments; to our cartographer, Roseli Ilano; and to Claudia Leal for assistance with the final maps.

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