Iron and Water : My Life Protecting Minnesota's Environment.
Merritt, Grant J.
Iron and Water : My Life Protecting Minnesota's Environment. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (212 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- The Merritt Family and the Mesabi Iron Range -- The Mesabi Iron Range -- The Merritts Build into Duluth -- "What Rockefeller Did to Us" -- My Early Years in Duluth -- Entering Politics in the Sixties -- Environmentalism and the Reserve Mining Controversy -- What Is Being Dumped in Lake Superior? -- The Stoddard Report -- An Old Fashioned with Robert Traver -- The First Earth Day -- Minnesota DFL Politics -- The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency -- Taconite Tailings -- Establishing Environmental Policies -- I'm in Trouble with My Old Law Firm -- Reserve Mining and Asbestos -- The Minnesota Experimental City -- We Defeat Reserve Mining and Save Lake Superior -- Citizen Activist -- From Public Servant to Private Practice -- Battling for the Environment in the Suburbs -- Fighting a Virus in Lake Superior -- Parks and Trails -- Recognizing Progress-and Staying Alert -- A Lifetime of Change on Isle Royale -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
9781452957081
Merritt, Grant J.,-1934-.
Environmentalists-Minnesota-Biography.
Environmental policy-Minnesota.
Environmental protection-Minnesota.
Natural resources-Government policy-Minnesota.
Iron ores-Minnesota-Mesabi Range-History.
Superior, Lake-History.
Minnesota-Environmental conditions.
Electronic books.
GE56.M47 .M477 2018
340.092 B
Iron and Water : My Life Protecting Minnesota's Environment. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (212 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- The Merritt Family and the Mesabi Iron Range -- The Mesabi Iron Range -- The Merritts Build into Duluth -- "What Rockefeller Did to Us" -- My Early Years in Duluth -- Entering Politics in the Sixties -- Environmentalism and the Reserve Mining Controversy -- What Is Being Dumped in Lake Superior? -- The Stoddard Report -- An Old Fashioned with Robert Traver -- The First Earth Day -- Minnesota DFL Politics -- The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency -- Taconite Tailings -- Establishing Environmental Policies -- I'm in Trouble with My Old Law Firm -- Reserve Mining and Asbestos -- The Minnesota Experimental City -- We Defeat Reserve Mining and Save Lake Superior -- Citizen Activist -- From Public Servant to Private Practice -- Battling for the Environment in the Suburbs -- Fighting a Virus in Lake Superior -- Parks and Trails -- Recognizing Progress-and Staying Alert -- A Lifetime of Change on Isle Royale -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
9781452957081
Merritt, Grant J.,-1934-.
Environmentalists-Minnesota-Biography.
Environmental policy-Minnesota.
Environmental protection-Minnesota.
Natural resources-Government policy-Minnesota.
Iron ores-Minnesota-Mesabi Range-History.
Superior, Lake-History.
Minnesota-Environmental conditions.
Electronic books.
GE56.M47 .M477 2018
340.092 B