Voices for the watershed : environmental issues in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence drainage basin / / editors, Gregor Gilpin Beck, Bruce Littlejohn

• Pubblicazione: Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2000; ©2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 363.739/4/09714
• Soggetto topico: Water - Pollution - Saint Lawrence River Watershed; Water quality management - Saint Lawrence River Watershed; Water - Pollution - Great Lakes (North America); Water quality management - Great Lakes (North America); Environmental protection - Saint Lawrence River Watershed; Environmental protection - Great Lakes (North America)
• Soggetto geografico: Saint Lawrence River Watershed Environmental conditions; Great Lakes (North America) Environmental conditions
• Altri autori: LitteljohnBruce M BeckGregor Gilpin <1964->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro; Contents; Foreword; SECTION 1 Voices for the Watershed; SECTION 2 Finding a Voice; Appendices; Author Biographies; Acknowledgments; Index; Prologue: Bridging the Knowledge Gap - Science and Society Working Together for Environmental Understanding; Introduction; Headwaters and Upland Regions; The Great Lakes; The St Lawrence River; Watershed Perspectives; Revelations: The Evolution of an Environmental Ethic and Career; Epilogue; Conservation Organizations; Selected References and Notes ; Highland Headwaters: Getting a Good Start along the Heights of Land; Sane Friends of the Mad River: Downstream from Vermont; Over the Gunnels in Algonquin: Clean Waters - Straight from the Source; Getting Our Act Together: The Greening of the Châteauguay River Watershed; Fouling Up on the Farm: Agricultural Non-Point Sources of Pollution; Wetland Lost - Farmland Claimed: Ontario's Holland Marsh Experiment; Wild Rice, Midges, and Cranes: The Importance of Wetlands for Creatures Great and Small; Covering the Acid Rain Story: The Insidious Drift of Air Pollution ; The Media Agenda: A Journalistic Perspective on Environmental Reporting; Reflections of a Paddle Pusher: Retracing Historic Canoe Routes to the Upper Great Lakes; Poisons up the Food Chain: The Effects of Bioconcentration on Eagles, Ospreys, and Cormorants; Rescuing Native Fish: Restoration of Lake Trout Populations in the Great Lakes; Making the Lakes Great: The Role of Remedial Action Plans; Developing Sustainability: Conservation Action in the Lake Superior Basin; From Apathy to Action: Environmental Issues in American Heartland Cities ; The Crush of Megalopolis: Crowding Nature in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe; Stories from a Big City Stream: Restoring Toronto's Don River; Decline and Recovery: Restoration of Hamilton Harbour; Ecosystem in Peril: The St Lawrence River; Environmental Sleuths: Biological Indicator Species Help Track Pollution; Alien Invaders: The Trouble with Zebra Mussels and Other Exotic Species; The Montreal Archipelago: Biodiversity in Quebec's Urban and Industrial Core; Balancing Act: Eco-Tourism along the St Lawrence; Blocking the Flow of Rivers: The Impact of Dams on Nature ; Great Rivers Meet: Stirring Life and Wonder in the Saguenay-St Lawrence Marine Park; Bi-National Citizen Action: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Watershed; Sustainable Development: Balancing Environment and Economy; Frog Reflections: The Ecosystem Approach to Conservation; Lessons from a Woodpecker: Parks and Protected Places; Learning the System from Water: Life Lessons of Environmental Education; Why Rivers? Why Watersheds? Life-Lines of the Ecosystem
• Sommario/riassunto: Voices for the Watershed is a unique look at the singular and ecologically inter-connected region of the Great Lakes-St Lawrence watershed, including the headwater and upland regions. With contributions from experts from the United States, Quebec, and Ontario, this book offers an accessible introduction to the issues affecting the quality of our most essential and precious of natural resources - clean, fresh water - from headwater regions downstream to the Great lakes, the St Lawrence river, and ultimately the watershed's outflow to the sea. With thoughtful words and evocative photography, Voices for the Watershed promotes understanding and examines ecological problems, describing positive environmental actions and projects as well as ongoing concerns over the effects of pollution on wildlife and human health. The underlying themes throughout are that the drainage basins and ecosystems are under siege - from reckless land use decisions, soil erosion, acid rain, and massive habitat destruction - but that the situation is not hopeless. The authors feel strongly that education about the environmental threats - in the classroom and public forums - is essential to effecting positive change, and that conservation actions by citizen groups and individuals can be a driving force in effecting substantial reforms regarding environmental legislation and practices. Voices for the Watershed is an eye-opening look at not only the problems but possible solutions to help protect and preserve this resilient natural resource on which so many depend. Contributors include Gregor Beck, Anne Bell (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society), J. Douglas Blakey (Upper Canada College), Serge Bourdon (Chateauguay Watershed Management Agency), Robert Brander (retired U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service), Dominique Brief (Alliance for Environmental Management), Louise Champoux (Environment Canada), Bruce Conn (Berry College), Kevin Coyle (National Environmental Education and Training Foundation), Brad Cundiff (Wildlands League), Jerry DeMarco (Sierra Legal Defence Fund), Jean-Luc DesGranges (Canadian Wildlife Service), Thomas A. Edsall (Western Basin Ecosystem), Peter Ewins (World Wildlife Fund), Louis-Gilles Francoeur (Le Devoir), Stephen Gates (Grey Owl Nature Trust), Elliott Gimble (Jewish Community Relations Council), Hallett J. Harris (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay), John Hull (Quebec-Labrador Foundation), Gail Jackson (independent consultant), John Jackson (Great Lakes United), Val Klump (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Louise Knox (Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan), Gail Krantzberg (Ontario=s Environment Ministry), Peter Lavigne (Watershed Consultants), Michel Letendre (Quebec Ministry of the Environment and Fauna), Bruce Litteljohn, Nadia Ménard (Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park), Jeff Miller (artist), Phil Norton (Montreal Gazette), Jean Rodrigue (Environment Canada), Alec Ross (writer and journalist), Scot Stewart (naturalist), Rae Tyson (USA Today), Fred Whoriskey (Atlantic Salmon Federation), with a major personal narrative by Michael Keating (environmental writer and consultant).
• Titolo autorizzato: Voices for the watershed
• ISBN: 0-7735-6816-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810294703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II