Voices for the watershed : environmental issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence drainage basin / edited by Gregor Gilpin Beck and Bruce Littlejohn. - Montreal [Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2000. - 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue: bridging the knowledge gap- science and society working together for environmental understanding / Introduction / Highland headwaters: getting a good start along the heights of land / Sane friends of the mad river; downstream from Vermont / Over the gunnels in Algonquin: clean waters -- straight from the source / 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 / Wetland lost -- farmland claimed: Ontario's Holland marsh experiment / Wild rice, midges, and cranes; the importance of wetlands for creatures great and small / Bruce Conn -- Bruce Litteljohn and Gregor Gilpin Beck -- Bruce Litteljohn -- Elliott Gimble -- Jeff Miller -- Hallett J. Harris and Val Klump -- J. Douglas Blakey and Bruce Litteljohn -- Scott Stewart and Bruce Litteljohn. Covering the acid rain story: the insidious drift of air pollution / The media agenda; a journalistic perspective on environmental reporting / Reflections of a paddle pusher: retracing historic canoe routes to the Upper Great Lakes / Poisons up the food chain: the effects of bioconcentration on eagles, ospreys, and cormorants / Rescuing native fish: restoration of lake trout populations in the Great Lakes / Making the Lakes Great: the role of remedial action plans / Developing sustainability: conservation action in the Lake Superior Basin / From apathy to action: environmental issues in American Heartland cities / The crush of megalopolis: crowding nature in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe / Stories from a Big City Stream: restoring Toronto's Don River / Gregor Gilpin Beck -- Michael Keating -- Alec Ross -- Peter Ewins -- Thomas A. Edsall -- Gail Krantzberg -- Gail Jackson and Bab Brander -- Rae Tyson -- Brad Cundiff -- Gregor Gilpin Beck. Decline and recovery: restoration of Hamilton Harbour / Ecosystem in peril: the St. Lawrence River / Environmental sleuths: biological indicator species help track pollution / Alien invaders: the trouble with Zebra Mussels and other exotic species / The Montreal Archipelago: biodiversity in Quebec's urban and industrial core / Balancing act: eco-tourism along the St. Lawrence / Blocking the flow of rivers: the impact of dams on nature / Great rivers meet; stirring life and wonder in the Saguenay-St Lawrence marine park / Bi-national citizen action; grassroots environmentalism in the watershed / Sustainable development: balancing environment and economy / Louise Knox -- Louis-Gilles Fran¿coeur -- Jean Rodrigue, Louise Champoux, and Jean-Luc DesGranges -- Gregor Gilpin Beck -- Michel Letendre -- Dominique Brief and John Hull -- Fred Whoriskey -- Nadia Ménard -- John Jackson -- Michael Keating. Frog reflections: the ecosystem approach to conservation / Lessons from a woodpecker : parks and protected places / Learning the system from water: life lessons of environmental education / Why rivers? Why Watersheds? Life-lines of the ecosystem / Revelations: the evolution of an environmental ethic and career / Epilogue / Anne C. Bell -- Jerry Valen DeMarco -- Kevin J. Coyle -- Peter Lavigne and Stephen Gates -- Michael Keating -- Bruce Litteljohn.



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Water--Pollution--Saint Lawrence River Watershed.
Water quality management--Saint Lawrence River Watershed.
Water--Pollution--Great Lakes (North America)
Water quality management--Great Lakes (North America)
Environmental protection--Saint Lawrence River Watershed.
Environmental protection--Great Lakes (North America)


Electronic Books.

GB992 / .V653 2000