Once and Future Great Lakes Country
An Ecological History
North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that transformed it forever. The Once and Future Great Lakes Country is a history of environmental change in the Great Lakes region, looking as far back as the last ice age, and also reflecting on modern trajectories of change, many of them positive. John R…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7735-8982-7
- EAN: 9780773589827
- Produktnummer: 35549314
- Verlag: Mqup
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 504 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
John L. Riley is chief science advisor, Nature Conservancy of Canada. He has had careers as a botanist, geologist, ecologist, and conservation professional with the Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario Geological Survey, and Ontario Nature. He lives in Mono, Ontario.
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