TY  - BOOK
AU  - Riley,John L.
TI  - The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History
T2  - McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
SN  - 9780773589810
AV  - GF512.G74.R56 2013eb 
U1  - 304.2/09713 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Human ecology-Great Lakes Region (North America)-History
KW  - Great Lakes Region (North America)-Environmental conditions-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes
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ER  -