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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.
- Nature, history, society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural resources--Management.
- Natural resources.
- Natural resources--Lake of the Woods--Management.
- Natural resources--Rainy Lake (Minn. and Ont.)--Management.
- Lake of the Woods--Economic conditions.
- Lake of the Woods.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (405 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Stretching across Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota, the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake basin spans boundaries and jurisdictions. Levelling the Lake explores a century and a half of social, economic, and legal arrangements through which the resources and environment of the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake watershed have been harnessed and harmed. Jamie Benidickson traces the environmental consequences of mining, forest industries, commercial fishing, hydro-electricity production, and recreation, as well as their often unanticipated impacts 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, Levelling the Lake also shows how interjurisdictional and transboundary issues – many involving the Canada-US International Joint Commission – continue to play a significant role throughout the region.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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”
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Suggested Readings
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7748-3550-8
- OCLC:
- 1080222142
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