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The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History

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John L. Riley’s The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History is a sweeping, deeply researched account of environmental transformation in the Great Lakes region. Spanning from the last Ice Age to the present, Riley blends ecological science, historical narrative, and personal reflection to illuminate how this once-abundant landscape was reshaped by Indigenous …

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Life & Death of the Great Lakes

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…the Great Lakes were resuscitated after a century’s worth of industrial abuse only to be hit with an even more vexing environmental catastrophe. Tragically for the Great Lakes, the Clean Water Act helped to lull most of the public into thinking that the lakes…were on their way to recovery throughout the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. …

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