Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index.
Contents
A frontier of estuaries -- The legacy of the seashore naturalists -- Commerce and the public trust -- Oceanography and ecology in the early federal bureaus -- The new ecology and a new ecological ethic -- Estuaries and the new ecology -- Politics and the preservation of estuaries -- Americans and the tidal seas.
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