Riley, John L.

The Once and Future Great Lakes Country : An Ecological History. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (545 pages) - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies ; v.2 . - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies .

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Measurements and Currencies -- Photo Section I -- Photo Section II -- Foreword by Ramsay Cook -- Introduction: The Fifth Line: A Farm Just Like Thousands of Others -- Part One: The Land and What Happened to It -- 1 The Land beyond Memory: Before 1500 -- 2 Stone Age Meets Iron - and Smallpox: The 1500s and 1600s -- 3 Wilding the Land with War: The 1700s -- 4 Manufacturing the Land: The 1800s -- Part Two: Voices of Nature Past -- 5 Taking the Wildlife: 1500-1900 -- 6 Clearing the Wood: 1500-1900 -- 7 Taming the Unforested: Prairies, Alvars, Barrens, Cliffs, Bogs, and Fens -- 8 The True North: Three Centuries On -- Part Three: Nature's Prospect -- 9 Invasives: The Unintended Consequences of the Uninvited -- 10 Growing Cities, Changing Climates: The Next Conversion -- 11 Restoration: A New Native Landscape -- Afterword: Nature Never Repeats Itself -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.

9780773589810


Human ecology-Great Lakes Region (North America)-History.
Great Lakes Region (North America)-Environmental conditions-History.


Electronic books.

GF512.G74.R56 2013eb

304.2/09713