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633979
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Voices for the watershed : : environmental issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence drainage basin /\ edited by Gregor Gilpin Beck and Bruce Littlejohn.
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Montreal :: McGill-Queen's University Press,, c2000.
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299 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm.
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0773520031 :
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: 9780773520035
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Prologue: bridging the knowledge gap- science and society working together for environmental understanding / Bruce Conn -- Introduction / Bruce Litteljohn and Gregor Gilpin Beck -- Highland headwaters: getting a good start along the heights of land / Bruce Litteljohn -- Sane friends of the mad river; downstream from Vermont / Elliott Gimble -- Over the gunnels in Algonquin: clean waters -- straight from the source / Jeff Miller -- Getting our act together; the greening of the Châteauguay river watershed -- Serge Bourdon and Phillip Norton -- Fouling up on the farm: agricultural non-point sources of pollution / Hallett J. Harris and Val Klump -- Wetland lost -- farmland claimed: Ontario's Holland marsh experiment / J. Douglas Blakey and Bruce Litteljohn -- Wild rice, midges, and cranes; the importance of wetlands for creatures great and small / Scott Stewart and Bruce Litteljohn.
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Covering the acid rain story: the insidious drift of air pollution / Gregor Gilpin Beck -- The media agenda; a journalistic perspective on environmental reporting / Michael Keating -- Reflections of a paddle pusher: retracing historic canoe routes to the Upper Great Lakes / Alec Ross -- Poisons up the food chain: the effects of bioconcentration on eagles, ospreys, and cormorants / Peter Ewins -- Rescuing native fish: restoration of lake trout populations in the Great Lakes / Thomas A. Edsall -- Making the Lakes Great: the role of remedial action plans / Gail Krantzberg -- Developing sustainability: conservation action in the Lake Superior Basin / Gail Jackson and Bab Brander -- From apathy to action: environmental issues in American Heartland cities / Rae Tyson -- The crush of megalopolis: crowding nature in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe / Brad Cundiff -- Stories from a Big City Stream: restoring Toronto's Don River / Gregor Gilpin Beck.
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Decline and recovery: restoration of Hamilton Harbour / Louise Knox -- Ecosystem in peril: the St. Lawrence River / Louis-Gilles Fran¿coeur -- Environmental sleuths: biological indicator species help track pollution / Jean Rodrigue, Louise Champoux, and Jean-Luc DesGranges -- Alien invaders: the trouble with Zebra Mussels and other exotic species / Gregor Gilpin Beck -- The Montreal Archipelago: biodiversity in Quebec's urban and industrial core / Michel Letendre -- Balancing act: eco-tourism along the St. Lawrence / Dominique Brief and John Hull -- Blocking the flow of rivers: the impact of dams on nature / Fred Whoriskey -- Great rivers meet; stirring life and wonder in the Saguenay-St Lawrence marine park / Nadia Ménard -- Bi-national citizen action; grassroots environmentalism in the watershed / John Jackson -- Sustainable development: balancing environment and economy / Michael Keating.
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Frog reflections: the ecosystem approach to conservation / Anne C. Bell -- Lessons from a woodpecker : parks and protected places / Jerry Valen DeMarco -- Learning the system from water: life lessons of environmental education / Kevin J. Coyle -- Why rivers? Why Watersheds? Life-lines of the ecosystem / Peter Lavigne and Stephen Gates -- Revelations: the evolution of an environmental ethic and career / Michael Keating -- Epilogue / Bruce Litteljohn.
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Water-- Pollution-- Saint Lawrence River Watershed.
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Water quality management-- Saint Lawrence River Watershed.
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Water-- Pollution-- Great Lakes (North America)
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Water quality management-- Great Lakes (North America)
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Environmental protection-- Saint Lawrence River Watershed.
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Environmental protection-- Great Lakes (North America)
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Litteljohn, Bruce M.
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Beck, Gregor Gilpin,1964-
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