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Voices for the watershed :

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Voices for the watershed :

[Book]

environmental issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence drainage basin /

edited by Gregor Gilpin Beck and Bruce Littlejohn.

Montreal :

McGill-Queen's University Press,

c2000.

299 p. :

ill. ;

23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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.

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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Environmental protection-- Great Lakes (North America)

Environmental protection-- Saint Lawrence River Watershed.

Water-- Pollution-- Great Lakes (North America)

Water-- Pollution-- Saint Lawrence River Watershed.

Water quality management-- Great Lakes (North America)

Water quality management-- Saint Lawrence River Watershed.

Beck, Gregor Gilpin,1964-

Litteljohn, Bruce M.

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