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Author Langston, Nancy, author.

Title Sustaining Lake Superior : an extraordinary lake in a changing world / Nancy Langston
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents ONE: Ecological History of the Lake Superior Basin; TWO: Industrializing the Forests, 1870s to 1930s; THREE: The Postwar Pollution Boom; FOUR: Taconite and the Fight over Reserve Mining Company; FIVE: Mining Pollution Debates, 1950s Through the 1970s; SIX: Mining, Toxics, and Environmental Justice for the Anishinaabe; SEVEN: The Mysteries of Toxaphene and Toxic Fish; EIGHT: The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreements; NINE: Climate Change, Contaminants, and the Future of Lake Superior; NOTES; INDEX
Summary A compelling exploration of Lake Superior's conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Lake conservation -- Superior, Lake -- History
Environmental protection -- Superior, Lake -- History
Pollution -- Superior, Lake -- History
Ecology -- Superior, Lake
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Ecology
Environmental protection
Lake conservation
Pollution
SUBJECT Superior, Lake -- Environmental conditions -- History
Subject Lake Superior
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300231663
0300231660