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E-book
Author Heasley, Lynne, author

Title The accidental reef and other ecological odysseys in the Great Lakes / Lynne Heasley, illustrations by Glenn Wolff, foreword by Jerry Dennis
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2021
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Part I. Freshwater reef: a world below and beyond -- At the reef -- Underwater rashomon -- Feast and famine -- On naming and knowing -- Part II. On seeing and knowing: an underwater biography -- Bad diver -- Waters that bind -- An interview about seeing -- River people -- Power in the visual -- A not-so-objective introduction to the Fish Consumption Advisory 67 rooted in sustainability -- A dazzling discovery -- Currents -- (Seeing + knowing) × time = hope? -- Part III. The paradox of abundance: or, problems of scale -- Negotiating abundance and scarcity, with Daniel Macfarlane -- Water, oil, and fish, with Daniel Macfarlane -- Salt mines and iron ranges (an extraction index) -- The paradox of abundance -- The accidental reef
Summary "This book takes readers on journeys through the Great Lakes, alongside fish and fishers, scuba divers and scientists, toxic pollutants and threatened communities, oil pipelines and invasive species, Indigenous peoples and federal agencies, in order to grapple with the legacies and alternative futures that come from their abundance of natural wealth"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Natural resources -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
Reef ecology -- Great Lakes Region (North America)
NATURE / General
Reef ecology
Natural resources
Ecology
SUBJECT Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Environmental conditions
Subject Great Lakes Region
Form Electronic book
Author Dennis, Jerry, other
Wolff, Glenn, illustrator
Project Muse. distributor.
LC no. 2021011126
ISBN 1609176820
9781609176822