Levelling the lake : transboundary resource management in the Lake of the Woods watershed / Jamie Benidickson ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benidickson, Jamie, author.

Series:

Nature, history, society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural resources--Lake of the Woods--Management.

Natural resources.

Natural resources--Rainy Lake (Minn. and Ont.)--Management.

Management.

Lake of the Woods--Economic conditions.

Lake of the Woods.

Rainy Lake (Minn. and Ont.)--Economic conditions.

Rainy Lake (Minn. and Ont.).

Lake of the Woods--Environmental conditions.

Rainy Lake (Minn. and Ont.)--Environmental conditions.

Ecology.

Economic history.

Natural resources--Management.

North America--Lake of the Woods.

North America--Rainy Lake.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Levelling the Lake explores a century and a half of social, economic, and legal arrangements through which the resources environment of the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake watershed have been both harnessed and harmed. Stretching across parts of Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota, the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake basin spans boundaries and jurisdictions. Jamie Benidickson traces the environmental consequences of logging, mining, forest industries, commercial fishing, hydro-electricity production, and recreation on the natural environment and the often unanticipated impacts of these activities on water flows and quality as well as on local residents, including Indigenous communities, which encouraged new legal and institutional responses. Assessing the transition from primary resource extraction toward sustainable development at a watershed level with a focus on law and governance, Levelling the Lake also shows how inter-jurisdictional and transboundary issues--many involving the Canada-US International Joint Commission--continue to play a significant role in many parts of the region. Levelling the Lake features historical examples offering hard lessons and successful experiments that provide encouragement for the effective management of ecosystems such as the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake basin."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Building boundaries

Cultural, commercial, and constitutional fishing

This land is my land It can't be your land

Water rights and water powers

Pulp and paper : from emergence to emergency

Bacterial waterways

Levelling the lake

Power struggles

Economy and ecology

We are all in this together

"Slowly to the rescue as a community fails"

Lumbering towards sustainability

Fishing contests

"For water knows no borders."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Benidickson, Jamie. Levelling the lake.:

ISBN:

9780774835480

0774835486

OCLC:

1055267361