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Egan, Dan.
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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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Egan, Dan.
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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The death and life of the Great Lakes / Dan Egan.
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Egan, Dan.
W.W. Norton & Company, c2017.
Call #:
577
.630977
E28d
Subjects
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.
ISBN:
9780393246438 (hc)
0393246434 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xix, 364 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-347) and index.
Contents:
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 -- 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.
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