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Tells the story of how the Great Lakes were formed in the last ice age, as well as the formation of the Niagra Escarpment. Explains how the voyageurs, lumberjacks, miners, and pioneer families played roles in creating the Great Lakes Region we know today. Shows case studies of environmental problems and solutions in and around the Great Lakes today.

Surveys the development of the region from the Stone age and brings into view the importance of the five lakes in American and Canadian history.

Examines the history of human use of the fish resources of the Great Lakes, and analyzes the changing nature of the fish populations, especially those that became popular in the commercial markets.

Water quality concerns are not new to the Great Lakes. They emerged early in the 20th century, in 1909, and matured in 1972 and 1978. They remain a prominent part of today's conflicted politics and advancing industrial growth. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, became a model to the world for environmental management across an international boundary. This book recounts this historic binational relationship,...

"The Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right...

How did the Earth transform from a hot ball of molten rock and metal into the planet that we call home? How did our continents and oceans grow? Where did our great mountain ranges come from? The geological processes that have shaped our world have also influenced the way humans have populated the planet. From the Great Lakes to Iceland, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa, this series reveals the physical processes that have shaped some of the most...

In a retelling of the Bluebeard and Fitcher's Bird fairy tales, a sinister preacher who is reputed to have had many wives manipulates a town with predictions about the end of the world and targets Vernelia, the eldest of three sisters for his newest bride.