TY - BOOK AU - Litteljohn,Bruce M. AU - Beck,Gregor Gilpin TI - Voices for the watershed: environmental issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence drainage basin SN - 9780773568167 AV - GB992 .V653 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Montreal [Que. PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Water KW - Pollution KW - Saint Lawrence River Watershed KW - Water quality management KW - Great Lakes (North America) KW - Environmental protection KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Prologue: bridging the knowledge gap- science and society working together for environmental understanding; Bruce Conn --; Introduction; Bruce Litteljohn and Gregor Gilpin Beck --; Highland headwaters: getting a good start along the heights of land; Bruce Litteljohn --; Sane friends of the mad river; downstream from Vermont; Elliott Gimble --; Over the gunnels in Algonquin: clean waters --; straight from the source; Jeff Miller --; 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; Hallett J. Harris and Val Klump --; Wetland lost --; farmland claimed: Ontario's Holland marsh experiment; J. Douglas Blakey and Bruce Litteljohn --; Wild rice, midges, and cranes; the importance of wetlands for creatures great and small; Scott Stewart and Bruce Litteljohn; Covering the acid rain story: the insidious drift of air pollution; Gregor Gilpin Beck --; The media agenda; a journalistic perspective on environmental reporting; Michael Keating --; Reflections of a paddle pusher: retracing historic canoe routes to the Upper Great Lakes; Alec Ross --; Poisons up the food chain: the effects of bioconcentration on eagles, ospreys, and cormorants; Peter Ewins --; Rescuing native fish: restoration of lake trout populations in the Great Lakes; Thomas A. Edsall --; Making the Lakes Great: the role of remedial action plans; Gail Krantzberg --; Developing sustainability: conservation action in the Lake Superior Basin; Gail Jackson and Bab Brander --; From apathy to action: environmental issues in American Heartland cities; Rae Tyson --; The crush of megalopolis: crowding nature in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe; Brad Cundiff --; Stories from a Big City Stream: restoring Toronto's Don River; Gregor Gilpin Beck; Decline and recovery: restoration of Hamilton Harbour; Louise Knox --; Ecosystem in peril: the St. Lawrence River; Louis-Gilles Fran¿coeur --; Environmental sleuths: biological indicator species help track pollution; Jean Rodrigue, Louise Champoux, and Jean-Luc DesGranges --; Alien invaders: the trouble with Zebra Mussels and other exotic species; Gregor Gilpin Beck --; The Montreal Archipelago: biodiversity in Quebec's urban and industrial core; Michel Letendre --; Balancing act: eco-tourism along the St. Lawrence; Dominique Brief and John Hull --; Blocking the flow of rivers: the impact of dams on nature; Fred Whoriskey --; Great rivers meet; stirring life and wonder in the Saguenay-St Lawrence marine park; Nadia Ménard --; Bi-national citizen action; grassroots environmentalism in the watershed; John Jackson --; Sustainable development: balancing environment and economy; Michael Keating; Frog reflections: the ecosystem approach to conservation; Anne C. Bell --; Lessons from a woodpecker : parks and protected places; Jerry Valen DeMarco --; Learning the system from water: life lessons of environmental education; Kevin J. Coyle --; Why rivers? Why Watersheds? Life-lines of the ecosystem; Peter Lavigne and Stephen Gates --; Revelations: the evolution of an environmental ethic and career; Michael Keating --; Epilogue; Bruce Litteljohn; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=624779&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -