Chel Anderson came to live and work on Minnesota’s North Shore in 1974. Since then she has worked in various positions in the Superior National Forest, as a consulting ecologist and botanist in the private and public sectors, and with the Minnesota¿Biological Survey. In 2001 she received the Minnesota Chapter of the Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Award for her "tireless efforts to inventory northeast Minnesota’s plant communities, her work to support conservation action with sound science, and her extraordinary ability to inspire passion for wild things and wild places." Adelheid Fischer is…mehr
Chel Anderson came to live and work on Minnesota’s North Shore in 1974. Since then she has worked in various positions in the Superior National Forest, as a consulting ecologist and botanist in the private and public sectors, and with the Minnesota¿Biological Survey. In 2001 she received the Minnesota Chapter of the Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Award for her "tireless efforts to inventory northeast Minnesota’s plant communities, her work to support conservation action with sound science, and her extraordinary ability to inspire passion for wild things and wild places." Adelheid Fischer is a writer who focuses on natural history, ecology, and environmental history. She has written for many publications, including Utne Reader, Orion, Conservation, Places, and Arizona Highways. She is the coauthor of Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region, winner of a Minnesota Book Award for Nature Writing. In 2014 she received the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award. A sixteen-year resident of Minnesota, Fischer now makes her home at the foot of South Mountain in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Chel Anderson came to live and work on Minnesota’s North Shore in 1974. Since then she has worked in various positions in the Superior National Forest, as a consulting ecologist and botanist in the private and public sectors, and with the Minnesota Biological Survey. In 2001 she received the Minnesota Chapter of the Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Award for her “tireless efforts to inventory northeast Minnesota’s plant communities, her work to support conservation action with sound science, and her extraordinary ability to inspire passion for wild things and wild places.” Adelheid Fischer is a writer who focuses on natural history, ecology, and environmental history. She has written for many publications, including Utne Reader, Orion, Conservation, Places, and Arizona Highways. She is the coauthor of Valley of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region, winner of a Minnesota Book Award for Nature Writing. In 2014 she received the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award. A sixteen-year resident of Minnesota, Fischer now makes her home at the foot of South Mountain in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona.
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Contents Abbreviations Introduction: A Gathering of Waters I. Headwaters As Good As It Gets: Bird Diversity on the North Shore Harvesting the Forest’s Bounty: Wildcrafting Be It Ever So Humble: No Home Like That of a Pitcher Plant Healing a Watershed for Coaster Brook Trout II. Highlands The Case of the Missing Duff: Earthworm Invasions The Secret Life of Salamanders Stranger Than Fiction: Plant Galls and Their Makers Black Bears and the Tettegouche Oaks The Nose Knows: Star-Nosed Moles and a Life Down Under III. Nearshore North Shore Places: What’s in a Name? Where Has All the Sewage Gone? Development and Water Quality Hay Pickers and Grass Gatherers: Botanical Exploration along the Lakeshore Between a Rock and a Lake: Life on the Cliff Edge The Leading Edge: North Shore Bird Migration IV. Lake Superior Mapping Lake Superior: The Early Years Searching High and Low: The Science of Lake Superior Exploration Amphipods and Diatoms: The Big Lake’s Bread and Butter How Much Water Is Enough? The Plumbing of Lake Superior The Missing Link: The Lake Superior and Mississippi River Canal The Rise and Fall of Seiches V. Islands The Chorus Frogs of Isle Royale The Long View: Moose and Wolves on Isle Royale Nature or Nuisance? Gulls in the Great Lakes A Mansion of Many Rooms: The Return of Lake Trout to Superior Epilogue: The Wild Card of Climate Change Acknowledgments Frontispiece Credits Index
Contents Abbreviations Introduction: A Gathering of Waters I. Headwaters As Good As It Gets: Bird Diversity on the North Shore Harvesting the Forest’s Bounty: Wildcrafting Be It Ever So Humble: No Home Like That of a Pitcher Plant Healing a Watershed for Coaster Brook Trout II. Highlands The Case of the Missing Duff: Earthworm Invasions The Secret Life of Salamanders Stranger Than Fiction: Plant Galls and Their Makers Black Bears and the Tettegouche Oaks The Nose Knows: Star-Nosed Moles and a Life Down Under III. Nearshore North Shore Places: What’s in a Name? Where Has All the Sewage Gone? Development and Water Quality Hay Pickers and Grass Gatherers: Botanical Exploration along the Lakeshore Between a Rock and a Lake: Life on the Cliff Edge The Leading Edge: North Shore Bird Migration IV. Lake Superior Mapping Lake Superior: The Early Years Searching High and Low: The Science of Lake Superior Exploration Amphipods and Diatoms: The Big Lake’s Bread and Butter How Much Water Is Enough? The Plumbing of Lake Superior The Missing Link: The Lake Superior and Mississippi River Canal The Rise and Fall of Seiches V. Islands The Chorus Frogs of Isle Royale The Long View: Moose and Wolves on Isle Royale Nature or Nuisance? Gulls in the Great Lakes A Mansion of Many Rooms: The Return of Lake Trout to Superior Epilogue: The Wild Card of Climate Change Acknowledgments Frontispiece Credits Index
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