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“A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some.”

Water Nature Mystery Lakes Conservation Great Lakes

Book:The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Source: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

“Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions upon trillions of filter-feeding quagga mussels.”

Science Algae Great Lakes Invasive Species Coho Lake Michigan Ecological Sustainability Asian Carp Quagga Mussels Soo Locks

Book:The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Source: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

“A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too late, can be teeming with millions, if not billions, of living organisms.”

Ecology Great Lakes Invasive Species Lake Michigan Quagga Musselsa Mussels St Lawrence Seaway

Book:The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Source: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

“HOWARD TANNER WAS NEVER BIG ON THE IDEA OF VALUING NATIVE species simply because they are native. His priority in the 1960s was to convert the lakes from a resource primarily managed as a commercial fishery into a sportsmen’s haven, and native species just didn’t fit his bill—and they still don’t. “I doubt if the charter boat captains can sustain a fishery on lake trout,” he said. He called trolling for native walleye “about the most boring thing you can do.” “Like bringing in a wet sock,” he said.”

Salmon Great Lakes Coho Introduced Species Chinook

Book:The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Source: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes