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OverviewPropelled by wings, fins, legs, and the wind, life has found a way to Minnesota's North Shore for more than twelve thousand years. Some plants and animals have taken up residence in the region's ancient mountains, others in its lakes and flowing rivers. Together, they weave a living fabric of sublime and fascinating beauty. These organisms come to life in ""North Shore, "" a comprehensive environmental history of one of Minnesota's most beloved places.The story of this region unfolds through the five interconnected areas of Minnesota's North Shore watershed--the meandering rivers of the Headwaters, the deep and dense forest of the Highlands, the rocky Nearshore, the drama of Lake Superior, and its mysterious islands, including Isle Royale and Susie Island archipelagos. Each section begins with an overview of the forces that have shaped the area, then the focus turns to a wide range of inhabitants, such as chorus frogs and star-nosed moles, butterworts and coaster brook trout, jeweled diatoms and pitcher plants, black bears and blue-spotted salamanders. Each chapter links to the region's broader history, from the sculpting of the land by mile-high glaciers to the role of scientific exploration, the advent of logging, the development of tourism, and the changing global climate.""North Shore"" reminds us that the natural history of this extraordinary region is still being created and that each of us--individually and collectively--are the authors of this ongoing narrative. Compelling and accessible, the book will provide readers with a science-based knowledge of the Minnesota North Shore watershed so that together we can write a new, hopeful chapter for its inhabitants, both human and wild. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chel Anderson , Adelheid FischerPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 2.223kg ISBN: 9780816632329ISBN 10: 0816632324 Pages: 632 Publication Date: 01 May 2015 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviewsNorth Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota's Superior Coast reads like a friendly and detailed journal that Great-great-great-great Grandmother Earth has been keeping from the very beginning. It tells the natural and cultural story of the North Shore: past, present, and future. Betsy Bowen, writer, illustrator, and long-time North Shore resident In North Shore, lovers of that sacred strip of scree and cold water finally have a definitive natural history. But they also have a meticulous and wondrous book that will entertain as much as educate, that demystifies even as it allows for the magical moments the North Shore is famous for inspiring. I've never felt so in tune with my favorite place as I did turning the last page of this book, and seldom have I felt so thankful. --Peter Geye Author InformationChel 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 MinnesotaBiological 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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