The Great Lakes: A Natural History of Earth's Largest Freshwater Ecosystem

Comprehensive, engaging, and timely, The Great Lakes is an exploration and a celebration of one of the most important ecological systems on Earth.

For more than 10,000 years, the Great Lakes watershed has sustained human and wildlife populations. The waterways have carried travel and trade, supported the world’s most important inland fishery, provided resting spots for billions of migrating birds, and supplied water for drinking and irrigation. In the past century, industrial pollution, inva...