The accidental reef and other ecological odysseys in the Great Lakes / Lynne Heasley, illustrations by Glenn Wolff, foreword by Jerry Dennis.

Author
Heasley, Lynne [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2021.
  • Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
  • ©2021.
Description
1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : illustrations.

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Series
Book collections on Project MUSE. [More in this series]
Summary note
"This book takes readers on journeys through the Great Lakes, alongside fish and fishers, scuba divers and scientists, toxic pollutants and threatened communities, oil pipelines and invasive species, Indigenous peoples and federal agencies, in order to grapple with the legacies and alternative futures that come from their abundance of natural wealth"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Contents
  • Part I. Freshwater reef: a world below and beyond
  • At the reef
  • Underwater rashomon
  • Feast and famine
  • On naming and knowing
  • Part II. On seeing and knowing: an underwater biography
  • Bad diver
  • Waters that bind
  • An interview about seeing
  • River people
  • Power in the visual
  • A not-so-objective introduction to the Fish Consumption Advisory 67 rooted in sustainability
  • A dazzling discovery
  • Currents
  • (Seeing + knowing) × time = hope?
  • Part III. The paradox of abundance: or, problems of scale
  • Negotiating abundance and scarcity, with Daniel Macfarlane
  • Water, oil, and fish, with Daniel Macfarlane
  • Salt mines and iron ranges (an extraction index)
  • The paradox of abundance
  • The accidental reef.
ISBN
  • 1609176820
  • 9781609176822 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
1260401208
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