@article{351103,
      recid = {351103},
      author = {Alexander, Jeff,},
      title = {Pandora's locks : the opening of the Great Lakes-St.  Lawrence Seaway /},
      publisher = {Michigan State University Press,},
      address = {East Lansing, Mich. :},
      pages = {xxxiii, 431 p. :},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {Product Description:  The St. Lawrence Seaway was  considered one of the world's greatest engineering  achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion  project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the  ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the  global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior,  Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the  world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great  Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price.  Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes unleashed a  biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest  freshwater ecosystems. "Pandora's Locks" is the story of  politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and  handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built  at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies  that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying  waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act  until it was too late. Blending science with compelling  personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive  account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North  America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous  lakes.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351103},
}