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Egan, Dan,
author.
The death and life of the Great Lakes /
Dan Egan.
First edition.
New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
©2017.
xix, 364 pages :
illustations, map ;
24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-347) and index.
The front door. 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 -- The back door. Continental undivide : Asian carp and Chicago's backwards river ; Conquering a continent : the mussel infestation of the West ; North America's "dead" sea : toxic algae and the threat to Toledo's water supply -- The future. 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.
20170317.
Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award.
Lake ecology
Great Lakes (North America.)
Introduced organisms
Great Lakes (North America.)
Nonindigenous aquatic pests
Great Lakes (North America.)
Water quality
Great Lakes (North America.)
Great Lakes (North America)
Environmental conditions.
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