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The once and future Great Lakes country : an ecological history / John L. Riley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riley, J. L. (John L.)
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 2.
- McGill-Queen's rural, wildland, and resource studies series ; 2
- McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Great Lakes Region (North America)--History.
- Human ecology.
- Great Lakes Region (North America)--Environmental conditions--History.
- Great Lakes Region (North America).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- "North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval, its landscapes utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's abundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that transformed it forever. Covering a vast geography encompassing two Canadian provinces and nine American states, The Once and Future Great Lakes Country provides both a detailed ecological history and a broad panorama of this vast region. It blends the voices of early visitors with the hopes of citizens now"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the fifth line : a farm just like thousands of others
- Part one. The land and what happened to it. The land beyond memory : before 1500
- Stone age meets iron
- and smallpox : the 1500s and 1600s
- Wilding the land with war : the 1700s
- Manufacturing the land : the 1800s
- Part two. Voices of nature past. Taking the wildlife : 1500-1900
- Clearing the wood : 1500-1900
- Taming the unforested : prairies, alvars, barrens, cliffs, bogs, and fens
- The true north : three centuries on
- Part three. Nature's prospect. Invasives : the unintended consequences of the uninvited
- Growing cities, changing climates : the next conversion
- Restoration : a new native landscape
- Afterword : nature never repeats itself.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780773589827
- 0773589821
- 9780773589810
- 0773589813
- OCLC:
- 865474941
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