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000351103 1001_ $$aAlexander, Jeff,$$d1962-
000351103 24510 $$aPandora's locks :$$bthe opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway /$$cJeff Alexander.
000351103 260__ $$aEast Lansing, Mich. :$$bMichigan State University Press,$$cc2009.
000351103 300__ $$axxxiii, 431 p. :$$bill., maps ;$$c24 cm.
000351103 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000351103 5050_ $$aAcknowledgments -- Preface -- Timeline -- Prologue:  Death of an icon -- Part 1:  Dominion -- 1:  Conquering nature -- 2:  Vampires of the deep -- 3:  Salt in the wound -- 4:  Alewife invasion -- 5:  King is born -- Part 2:  Plague -- 6:  Fatal error -- 7:  Dangerous cargo -- 8:  Reckoning -- 9:  Ruffe seas -- 10:  Smoke and mirrors -- 11:  Meltdown -- Part 3:  Dreissena Effect -- 12:  Something amuck -- 13:  Blue, green, and deadly -- 14:  Cruel hoax -- 15:  Caspian Sea diet -- 16:  Whitefish and green slime -- 17:  Paradox -- 18:  Fear this -- Part 4:  Betrayal -- 19:  Dirty secrets -- 20:  Who's in charge? -- 21:  Mission impossible -- 22:  Seaway heretics -- 23:  Westward Ho! -- 24:  Saving paradise -- Epilogue:  Hope amid the ruins -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
000351103 520__ $$aProduct 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.
000351103 650_0 $$aBiological invasions$$zGreat Lakes (North America)
000351103 650_0 $$aNonindigenous aquatic pests$$zGreat Lakes (North America)
000351103 650_0 $$aDischarge of ballast water$$xEnvironmental aspects$$zSaint Lawrence Seaway.
000351103 650_0 $$aDischarge of ballast water$$xGovernment policy$$zNorth America.
000351103 650_0 $$aNonindigenous aquatic pests$$xControl$$zGreat Lakes (North America)
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