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This historical study examines the early administrations of the Niagara Reservation, particularly in regard to the influence of hydroelectric power production on the original aim of recreating the primeval scenery at Niagara Falls. It is an object lesson for all attempts at ecological restoration in the face of concerted development. The drama of Andrew Haswell Green's efforts to protect the cataracts ends disastrously.

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Patricia M. Eckel is Research Associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden, Editor of the G. W. Clinton Papers at the Buffalo Museum of Science, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, which awarded her the Smythies Medal for Botanical Illustration. She maintains the Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin and an annotated set of the correspondence of mid 1800's botanists with G. W. Clinton online at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Her scientific works include treatments of moss genera for the Flora of North America, two revisions of a checklist of the regional flora of western New York State, an annotated checklist of the mosses of Wyoming, the book Botanical Heritage of Islands at the Brink of Niagara Falls, and 68 peer-reviewed papers in botanical journals.

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