TY - BOOK AU - Merritt,Grant J. TI - Iron and Water: My Life Protecting Minnesota's Environment SN - 9781452957081 AV - GE56.M47 .M477 2018 U1 - 340.092 B PY - 2018/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Merritt, Grant J.,-1934- KW - Environmentalists-Minnesota-Biography KW - Environmental policy-Minnesota KW - Environmental protection-Minnesota KW - Natural resources-Government policy-Minnesota KW - Iron ores-Minnesota-Mesabi Range-History KW - Superior, Lake-History KW - Minnesota-Environmental conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5407053 ER -