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Iron and Water : My Life Protecting Minnesota's Environment.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (212 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781452957081
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Iron and WaterDDC classification:
  • 340.092 B
LOC classification:
  • GE56.M47 .M477 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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