Preferred Shelf Number:
577.6309 EG13
First Title value, for Searching:
The death and life of the Great Lakes
First Author value, for Searching:
Egan, Dan, author.
ISBN:
9780393246438
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xix, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Carving a fourth seacoast : dreams of a seaway -- Three fish : the story of lake trout, sea lampreys and alewives -- The world's great fishing hole : the introduction of coho and chinook salmon -- Noxious cargo : the invasion of zebra and quagga mussels -- Continental undivide : Asian carp and Chicago's backwards river -- Conquering a continent : the mussel infestation of the west -- America's dead sea : toxic algae and the threat to Toledo's water supply -- Plugging the drain : the never-ending threat to siphon away great lakes water -- A shaky balancing act : climate change and the fall and rise of the lakes -- A Great Lake revival : charting a course toward integrity, stability and balance.
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