Download or read book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes written by Dan Egan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.

Download or read book The Golden Dream written by Ronald Stagg and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century a movement flourished in the Midwestern states bordering the Great Lakes to champion the St. Lawrence route as the answer to easily transporting goods in and out of the centre of the continent. Internal rivalries in the United States and Canada held back the project for fifty years until Canada suddenly decided to build a seaway alone, pressuring the American Congress to co-operate. The building of the Seaway and its completion in 1959, involved engineering on an unprecedented scale and significant human dislocation. During construction, communities along the Great Lakes planned for increased prosperity, but changes in transportation, aging infrastructure, and environmental problems have mean that "the Golden Dream" has not been fully realized, even today. This popular history chronicles the rise of one of the great engineering projects in Canadian history and its controversial impact on the people living along the St. Lawrence River.

Download or read book Pandora s Locks written by Jeff Alexander and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems. Pandora's Locks is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.

Download or read book The St Lawrence Seaway and Power Project written by Claire Puccia Parham and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the lives of the men who built the seaway and the women who accompanied them. On the fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of the power dam and waterway, this book is a fitting tribute to the hard work and dedication of the project’s 22,000 workers.

Download or read book The St Lawrence written by Lynn Peppas and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative book follows the St. Lawrence River, once a main route of the fur and timber trades. This important commercial waterway forms part of the boundary between Canada and the United States and connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Today, a system of canals, dams, and locks lets seagoing ships travel all the way to Lake Superior.

Download or read book Great Lakes St Lawrence Seaway Navigation Season Extension Interim Feasibility Study written by U.S. Army Engineer District, Detroit and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Lakes St Lawrence Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book History of the Great Lakes written by J. B. Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Great Lakes St Lawrence Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The St Lawrence River written by Tim McNeese and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of the St. Lawrence river and its importance to the border region between the eastern United States and Canada.

Download or read book Great Lakes St Lawrence Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report Great Lakes St Lawrence Seaway Winter Navigation Board written by Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway Winter Navigation Board and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Lakes St Lawrence Seaway System written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The St Lawrence Seaway and Power Project written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Lakes St Lawrence Deep Waterway to the Sea written by Tom Ireland and published by New York : G.P. Putnam. This book was released on 1934 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: