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Author : Cecilia Minden
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781602799196
Level 2 guided reader that teaches the young reader important concepts about lakes, how they are formed, their importance in the ecosystems, and ways to keep them clean.
Author : Cecilia Minden
Publisher : Cherry Lake Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1602798591
Level 2 guided reader that teaches the young reader important concepts about lakes, how they are formed, their importance in the ecosystems, and ways to keep them clean.
Author : Cecilia Minden
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781602799219
Level 2 guided reader that teaches young readers concepts about rivers, how they are formed, their importance in the ecosystems, and ways to keep them clean.
Author : M. Munawar,R. E. Hecky
Publisher : Ecovision World Monograph
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025773271
This compendium contains a wide variety of current research on temperate and tropical great lakes, with a common thread being the health and integrity of these important systems. The promise of this book is that it will enhance our understanding of how large lakes function, and thereby provide the tools necessary to ensure their continuing and viability.
Author : Jerry Dennis
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466882027
Award-winning nature author Jerry Dennis reveals the splendor and beauty of North America’s Great Lakes in this “masterwork”* history and memoir of the essential environmental and economical region shared by the United States and Canada. No bodies of water compare to the Great Lakes. Superior is the largest lake on earth, and together all five contain a fifth of the world’s supply of standing fresh water. Their ten thousand miles of shoreline border eight states and a Canadian province and are longer than the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. Their surface area of 95,000 square miles is greater than New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island combined. People who have never visited them—who have never seen a squall roar across Superior or the horizon stretch unbroken across Michigan or Huron—have no idea how big they are. They are so vast that they dominate much of the geography, climate, and history of North America, affecting the lives of tens of millions of people. The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas is the definitive book about the history, nature, and science of these remarkable lakes at the heart of North America. From the geological forces that formed them and the industrial atrocities that nearly destroyed them, to the greatest environmental success stories of our time, Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario are portrayed in all their complexity. A Michigan native, Jerry Dennis also shares his memories of a lifetime on or near the lakes, including a six-week voyage as a crewmember on a tallmasted schooner. On his travels, he collected more stories of the lakes through the eyes of biologists, fishermen, sailors, and others he befriended while hiking the area’s beaches and islands. Through storms and fog, on remote shores and city waterfronts, Dennis explores the five Great Lakes in all seasons and moods and discovers that they and their connecting waters—including the Erie Canal, the Hudson River, and the East Coast from New York to Maine—offer a surprising and bountiful view of America. The result is a meditation on nature and our place in the world, a discussion and cautionary tale about the future of water resources, and a celebration of a place that is both fragile and robust, diverse, rich in history and wildlife, often misunderstood, and worthy of our attention. “This is history at its best and adventure richly described.”—*Doug Stanton, author of In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors and 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award Winner Winner of Best Book of 2003 by the Outdoor Writers Association of America
Author : Peter Annin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597266376
The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
Author : Cecilia Minden
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781602799202
Level 2 guided reader that teaches young readers concepts about mountains, how they are formed and the ecosystems they support.
Author : Jefferys Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : NLS:V000387327
Author : Lisa Schnell
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781641562942
Bodies of water are everywhere. Some are small. Some of big. Find out about the different types of bodies of water around us. Paired to the fiction title Saving Water.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:966835266
Author : John Richard Saylor
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781643261676
“Lakes is my favorite kind of natural history: meticulously researched, timely, comprehensive, and written with imagination and verve.”—Jerry Dennis, author of The Living Great Lakes Lakes might be the most misunderstood bodies of water on earth. And while they may seem commonplace, without lakes our world would never be the same. In this revealing look at these lifegiving treasures, John Richard Saylor shows us just how deep our connection to still waters run. Lakes is an illuminating tour through the most fascinating lakes around the world. Whether it’s Lake Vostok, located more than two miles beneath the surface of Antarctica, whose water was last exposed to the atmosphere perhaps a million years ago; Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, the world’s deepest and oldest lake formed by a rift in the earth’s crust; or Lake Nyos, the so-called Killer Lake that exploded in 1986, resulting in hundreds of deaths, Saylor reveals to us the wonder that exists in lakes found throughout the world. Along the way we learn all the many forms that lakes take—how they come to be and how they feed and support ecosystems—and what happens when lakes vanish.
Author : Cecilia Minden
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781602799226
Level 2 guided reader that teaches young readers about forests, how they grow and the ecosystems they support.
Author : John L. Riley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773541771
A passionate, wide-ranging history of the landscapes around the Great Lakes.
Author : Maureen Dunphy
Publisher : All About...People
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1681571013
"What do the ice ages, The Anishinaabe people, "New France," and freshwater shipwrecks and pirates all have in common? The Great Lakes! The chain of lakes, that mostly runs along the U.S.-Canadian border, includes Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. Read about the fascinating Petoskey stones, pieces of fossilized coral formed in the prehistoric sea. Join pirate captain "Roaring" Dan Seavey as he tricks ships into crashing on rocks, so he can steal their cargo. Follow the Ojibwe on their Seven Fires Migration that ends when they find manoomin (wild rice) near what is now Madeline Island. Where did the Great Lakes come from? What is happening to them now? Learn all this as well as how you can help the Great Lakes in the future!"--Page 4 of cover
Author : Dan Egan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393246445
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.