"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.
Cultural eutrophication is a process, whereby an excessive increase in nutrients in inland waters occurs as a result of human activities. William McGucken’s book examines the causes and effects of this process with reference to Lake Erie.
Traces the changing relationships between the fish resources and the people of the Great Lakes region.
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.
In Wild Earth 6, no. 1 Bill McKibben imagines new organizations like “MACHO” (Manly and Courageous Hunters Organization), Stephanie Mills visits Leopold’s shack, and Daniel Dancer seeks a deep photography ethic.
Darwin’s Nightmare is a story about people in the North and South, about globalization, and about fish.
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.
This film chronicles the struggle of a community in New York state to save a lake from an invasive weed and restore it to a habitat for migrating birds, and other flaura and fauna.
The urbanization of Bangalore transformed the once-strong relationship between communities and the lakes that they once created and maintained.