The once and future Great Lakes country : an ecological history /
Riley, J. L.
The once and future Great Lakes country : an ecological history / John L. Riley. - [CEL version. - Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : colour illustrations, colour maps. - McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 2 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: The Fifth Line: A Farm Just Like Thousands of Others -- Part One The Land and What Happened to It. 1 The Land beyond Memory: Before 1500 ; 2 Stone Age Meets Iron -- and Smallpox: The 1500s and 1600s ; 3 Wilding the Land with War: The 1700s ; 4 Manufacturing the Land: The 1800s. Part Two Voices of Nature Past. 5 Taking the Wildlife: 1500-1900 ; 6 Clearing the Wood: 1500-1900 ; 7 Taming the Unforested: Prairies, Alvars, Barrens, Cliffs, Bogs, and Fens ; 8 The True North: Three Centuries On. Part Three Nature's Prospect. 9 Invasives: The Unintended Consequences of the Uninvited ; 10 Growing Cities, Changing Climates: The Next Conversion ; 11 Restoration: A New Native Landscape -- Afterword: Nature Never Repeats Itself.
9780773589810
Human ecology--History.--Great Lakes Region (North America)
Electronic Books.
GF512 / .O534 2013
The once and future Great Lakes country : an ecological history / John L. Riley. - [CEL version. - Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : colour illustrations, colour maps. - McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 2 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: The Fifth Line: A Farm Just Like Thousands of Others -- Part One The Land and What Happened to It. 1 The Land beyond Memory: Before 1500 ; 2 Stone Age Meets Iron -- and Smallpox: The 1500s and 1600s ; 3 Wilding the Land with War: The 1700s ; 4 Manufacturing the Land: The 1800s. Part Two Voices of Nature Past. 5 Taking the Wildlife: 1500-1900 ; 6 Clearing the Wood: 1500-1900 ; 7 Taming the Unforested: Prairies, Alvars, Barrens, Cliffs, Bogs, and Fens ; 8 The True North: Three Centuries On. Part Three Nature's Prospect. 9 Invasives: The Unintended Consequences of the Uninvited ; 10 Growing Cities, Changing Climates: The Next Conversion ; 11 Restoration: A New Native Landscape -- Afterword: Nature Never Repeats Itself.
9780773589810
Human ecology--History.--Great Lakes Region (North America)
Electronic Books.
GF512 / .O534 2013