Living waters : reading the rivers of the lower Great Lakes / Margaret Wooster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wooster, Margaret.

Series:

Excelsior Editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Great Lakes Region (North America).

Ecology.

Water-supply--Great Lakes Region (North America).

Water-supply.

Great Lakes Region (North America)--Description and travel.

Great Lakes Region (North America).

Great Lakes Region (North America)--Environmental conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-193) and index.

ISBN:

9780791477120

0791477126

9781441604927

1441604928

OCLC:

318212413