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003 OCoLC
005 20191109072918.8
008 110128s2011 miuao b 001 0 eng d
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050 14 $aQH353$b.A44 2011
082 04 $a577.63/2720977$222
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aAlexander, Jeff,$d1962-
245 10 $aPandora's locks :$bthe opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway /$cJeff Alexander.
260 $aEast Lansing :$bMichigan State University Press,$c2011.
300 $axxxiii, 431 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 407-416) and index.
520 8 $aAnnotation$bA 50-year retrospective of the St. Lawrence Seaway: The 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 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.
505 0 $aDeath of an icon -- Conquering Nature -- Vampires of the deep -- Salt in the wound -- Alewife invasion -- A king is born -- Fatal error -- Dangerous cargo -- The reckoning -- Ruffe seas -- Smoke and mirrors -- Meltdown -- Something amuck -- Blue, green, and deadly -- A cruel hoax -- Caspian Sea diet -- Whitefish and green slime -- Paradox -- Fear this -- Dirty secrets -- Who's in charge? -- Mission impossible -- Seaway heretics -- Westward ho! -- Saving paradise -- Hope amid the ruins.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
650 0 $aBiological invasions$zGreat Lakes (North America)
650 0 $aNonindigenous aquatic pests$zGreat Lakes (North America)
650 0 $aDischarge of ballast water$xEnvironmental aspects$zSaint Lawrence Seaway.
650 0 $aDischarge of ballast water$xGovernment policy$zNorth America.
650 0 $aNonindigenous aquatic pests$xControl$zGreat Lakes (North America)
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651 7 $aGreat Lakes.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01240563
651 7 $aNorth America.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01242475
651 7 $aNorth America$zSaint Lawrence Seaway.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01246326
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