"A 'Sportsman's Paradise:' The Effects of Hunting on the Avifauna of the Gippsland Lakes"
This paper examines hunting in the colonial era and attempts to evaluate its role in avifaunal decline on the Gippsland Lakes.
This paper examines hunting in the colonial era and attempts to evaluate its role in avifaunal decline on the Gippsland Lakes.
With the foundation of the most northerly Orthodox monastery in 1436, monks and settlers began to create an extensive canal system on Solovetsky Island between the island’s more than five hundred lakes, thus transforming and adapting the environment to accommodate the needs of human settlers.
Liza Piper talks about the industrialization of Canada’s northwest subarctic region between 1920 and 1960.
The Reserve Mining Company discharged taconite tailings directly into Lake Superior for 25 years, creating a massive tailings delta and polluting the waters of the lake. When the EPA took Reserve to court in 1973, the town of Silver Bay was divided between a struggle for economic well-being and public health.
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Environmental activism in the 1960s forced the Army Corps of Engineers to limit the open-water dumping of dredge spoils in the Great Lakes and create new “natural” areas along the shore.
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With the drying of its sister lake for purposes of agricultural development, Pamvotis is suffering accelerating degradation.
A historically grounded interpretation of Lake Tanganyika’s rising lake waters shows that global warming presents just one of many challenges facing the region.