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Book

Sustaining Lake Superior : an extraordinary lake in a changing world

Call Numbers

  • 977.49 L285 (CEN)
  • H 977.49 L285 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2017]

Physical Description

xv, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Summary

A compelling exploration of Lake Superior's conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change.

Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Ecological history of the Lake Superior Basin
  • Industrializing the forests, 1870s to 1930s
  • The postwar pollution boom
  • Taconite and the fight over Reserve Mining Company
  • Mining pollution debates,1950s through the 1970s
  • Mining, toxics, and environmental justice for the Anishinaabe
  • The mysteries of toxaphene and toxic fish
  • The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements
  • Climate change, contaminants, and the future of Lake Superior
  • Notes
  • Index.

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