03063nam 2200625Ia 450 991082235630332120240417033504.00-7914-7712-61-4416-0492-810.1515/9780791477120(CKB)1000000000723017(OCoLC)318212413(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575849(SSID)ssj0000193571(PQKBManifestationID)11182983(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193571(PQKBWorkID)10219837(PQKB)11566626(MiAaPQ)EBC3407423(Au-PeEL)EBL3407423(CaPaEBR)ebr10575849(DE-B1597)682096(DE-B1597)9780791477120(EXLCZ)99100000000072301720080415d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLiving waters[electronic resource] reading the rivers of the lower Great Lakes /Margaret Wooster1st ed.Albany Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Pressc20091 online resource (215 p.) Excelsior EditionsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-7703-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-193) and index.I: The Niagara Frontier -- What is Niagara? Interlude: harmonic convergence, Niagara Falls -- Scajaquada: portrait of an urban creek -- Buffalo River abandoned -- Interlude: the power of water -- II: Beginnings -- Genesee torture tree: rereading little beard's signs -- Zoar Valley genesis -- Interlude: killdeer and other mysteries -- III: The eastern door -- High peaks, cloud lakes -- Oswego, Onondaga, and the politics of listing -- Le Fleuve -- Interlude: second voyage -- Leopold revisited.In Living Waters, Margaret Wooster canoes, portages, camps beside, and wades into eight Great Lakes watersheds across New York and Québec, returning with her pockets full of original stories from these beautiful, boggy, and prehistoric waterways. From the history of hydropower development on the Niagara River to the search for a wizard's cave in the Zoar Valley, from a portrait of an urban creek in Buffalo, to the origins and demise of New France on the St. Lawrence, Living Waters offers a fascinating, first-person exploration of the rivers that impact our world's largest freshwater ecosystem.EcologyGreat Lakes Region (North America)Water-supplyGreat Lakes Region (North America)Great Lakes Region (North America)Description and travelGreat Lakes Region (North America)Environmental conditionsEcologyWater-supply333.91/620977Wooster Margaret1691746MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822356303321Living waters4068348UNINA