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In Living Waters, Margaret Wooster canoes, portages, camps beside, and wades into eight Great Lakes watersheds across New York and Québec, returning with her pockets full of original stories from these beautiful, boggy, and prehistoric waterways. From the history of hydropower development on the Niagara River to the search for a wizard's cave in the Zoar Valley, from a portrait of an urban creek in Buffalo, to the origins and demise of New France on the St. Lawrence, Living Waters offers a fascinating, first-person exploration of the rivers that impact our world's largest freshwater ecosystem.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. The Global Context

Part I. The Niagara Frontier

2. What Is Niagara?
Interlude: Harmonic Convergence, Niagara Falls

3. Scajaquada: Portrait of an Urban Creek

4. Buffalo River Abandoned
Interlude: The Power of Water

Part II. Beginnings

5. Genesee Torture Tree: Rereading Little Beard’s Signs

6. Zoar Valley Genesis
Interlude: Killdeer and Other Mysteries

Part III. The Eastern Door

7. High Peaks, Cloud Lakes

8. Oswego, Onondaga, and the Politics of Listing

9. Le Fleuve
Interlude: Second Voyage

10. Leopold Revisited

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

Region

Regional

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	29 janvier 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791477120
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	7 Mo

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L i v i n g Wa t e r s

T h e G r e a t L a k e s – S t. L a w r e n c e R i v e r S y s t e m

MARGARETWOOSTER

L i v i n g Wa t e r s Reading the Rivers of the Lower Great Lakes

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

Published by STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, ALBANY

Printed in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Wooster, Margaret. Living waters : reading the rivers of the lower Great Lakes / Mar garet Wooster. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780791477038 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 9780791477045 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Great Lakes Region (North America)—Environmental conditions. 2. Water supply—Great Lakes Region (North America) 3. Ecology—Great Lakes Region (North America) 4. Great Lakes Region (North America)—Description and travel. I. Title. GE160.G75W66 2009 333.91'620977—dc22 2008017299

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword The Global Context

PARTI THENIAGARAFRONTIER What Is Niagara? Interlude: Harmonic FallsConvergence, Niagara Scajaquada: Portrait of an Urban Creek Buffalo River Abandoned InterludeWaterPower of : The

PARTII BEGINNINGS Genesee Torture Tree: Rereading Little Beard’s Signs Zoar Valley Genesis Interludeand Other Mysteries: Killdeer

PARTIII THEEASTERNDOOR High Peaks, Cloud Lakes Oswego, Onondaga, and the Politics of Listing

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Le Fleuve Interlude: Second Voyage Leopold Revisited

Notes Bibliography Index

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Map: The Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River system Map: New York’s Great Lakes watersheds by chapter number 1.1 Snow crystals photographs by Wilson A. Bentley 1.2 Map: Lower lakes Areas of Concern 2.1 Map: Niagara River 2.2 Map: Niagara Escarpment 2.3 Love’s map of Model City 2.4 Tuscarora protest: “Moses Go Home” 2.5 “Falls Follies” 3.1 Map: Scajaquada Creek Watershed 3.2 “Story of Black Rock” 3.3 Jubilee Spring brochure 3.4 Parkside Greens’ banner 4.1 Map: Buffalo River Area of Concern 4.2 TheBreechunloads 4.3 Buffalo River, 1995 4.4 Buffalo River, 1951 4.5 Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Stan Spisiak on the Buffalo River 5.1 Map: Genesee River Watershed 5.2 1755 map: “Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France” 5.3 State historical sign at the “Torture Tree”

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5.4 Wooster barn 5.5 Salt mine shaft 6.1 Map: Cattaraugus Creek Watershed 6.2 Zoar Valley 6.3 “Map of Hodenosauneega” 6.4 Lighting the creek 7.1 Map: Adirondack Watersheds 7.2 Adirondack highlands 7.3 Space shuttle view: smog over lower Great Lakes 7.4 Beaver work at Lake Tear of the Clouds 8.1 Map: Oswego River Watershed 8.2 Lock on the Oswego River 8.3 Inland range of American eel 8.4 Inland range of Atlantic salmon 9.1 Map: Le Fleuve 9.2 Map: St. Lawrence mixing zone 9.3 Map: St. Lawrence Seaway region 10.1 Éole, CapChat. “The highest vertical axis wind turbine in the world” 10.2 The land holds up signs

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