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Author Langston, Nancy, author.

Title Sustaining Lake Superior : an extraordinary lake in a changing world / Nancy Langston.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ONE: Ecological History of the Lake Superior Basin; TWO: Industrializing the Forests, 1870s to 1930s; THREE: The Postwar Pollution Boom; FOUR: Taconite and the Fight over Reserve Mining Company; FIVE: Mining Pollution Debates, 1950s Through the 1970s; SIX: Mining, Toxics, and Environmental Justice for the Anishinaabe; SEVEN: The Mysteries of Toxaphene and Toxic Fish; EIGHT: The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements; NINE: Climate Change, Contaminants, and the Future of Lake Superior; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H.
Summary A compelling exploration of Lake Superior's conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change.
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Subject Superior, Lake -- Environmental conditions -- History.
Lake conservation -- Superior, Lake -- History.
Lake conservation.
History.
Environmental protection -- Superior, Lake -- History.
Environmental protection.
Pollution -- Superior, Lake -- History.
Pollution.
Ecology -- Superior, Lake.
Ecology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: 0-300-21298-4
ISBN 9780300231663 (electronic book)
0300231660 (electronic book)
9780300212983 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0300212984 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)