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Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway

Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway


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The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project - a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River - opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems. Pandora's Locks is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE TIMELINE PROLOGUE 01/ DOMINION 01/ CONQUERINGNATURE 02/ VAMPIRES OFTHE DEEP 03/ SALT IN THEWOUND 04/ ALEWIFEINVASION 05/ A KING ISBORN 02/ PLAGUE 06/ FATAL ERROR 07/ DANGEROUSCARGO 08/ THE RECKONING 09/ RUFFE SEAS 10/ SMOKE ANDMIRRORS 11/ MELTDOWN 03/ THE DREISSENAEFFECT 12/ SOMETHINGAMUCK 13/ BLUE, GREEN,AND DEADLY 14/ A CRUELHOAX 15/ CASPIAN SEADIET 16/ WHITEFISH ANDGREEN SLIME 17/ PARADOX 18/ FEAR THIS 04/ BETRAYAL 19/ DIRTY SECRETS 20/ WHO’S INCHARGE? 21/ MISSIONIMPOSSIBLE 22/ SEAWAYHERETICS 23/ WESTWARD HO! 24/ SAVINGPARADISE EPILOGUE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

About the Author :
Jeff Alexander is an award-winning environmental journalist and author of The Muskegon: The Majesty and Tragedy of Michigan's Rarest River.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780870138720
  • Publisher: Michigan State University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Michigan State University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 431
  • Spine Width: 36 mm
  • Weight: 708 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0870138723
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway
  • Width: 152 mm


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