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2022 NAUTILUS SILVER WINNER FOR LYRIC PROSE—In The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, Lynne Heasley illuminates an underwater world that, despite a ferocious industrial history, remains wondrous and worthy of care. From its first scene in a benighted Great Lakes river, where lake sturgeon thrash and spawn, this powerful book takes readers on journeys through the Great Lakes, alongside fish and fishers, scuba divers and scientists, toxic pollutants and threatened communities, oil pipelines and invasive species, Indigenous peoples and federal agencies. With dazzling illustrations from Glenn Wolff, the book helps us know the Great Lakes in new ways and grapple with the legacies and alternative futures that come from their abundance of natural wealth. Suffused with curiosity, empathy, and wit, The Accidental Reef will not fail to astonish and inspire.

ISBN-13: 9781611864076

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Michigan State University Press

Publication Date: 08-01-2021

Pages: 264

Product Dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

LYNNE HEASLEY is professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is the author of A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley and coeditor of Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jerry Dennis vii

Preface ix

Part I Freshwater Reef: A World Below and Beyond

At the Reef 3

Underwater Rashomon 7

Feast and Famine 16

On Naming and Knowing 19

Part II On Seeing and Knowing: An Underwater Biography

Bad Diver 37

Waters That Bind 39

An Interview about Seeing 46

River People 47

Power in the Visual 53

A Not-So-Objective Introduction to the Fish Consumption Advisory 58

Rooted in Sustainability 67

A Dazzling Discovery 77

Currents 88

(Seeing + Knowing) x Time = Hope? 100

Part III The Paradox of Abundance: Or, Problems of Scale

Negotiating Abundance and Scarcity, with Daniel Macfarlane 109

Water, Oil, and Fish, with Daniel Macfarlane 117

Salt Mines and Iron Ranges (An Extraction Index) 133

The Paradox of Abundance 142

The Accidental Reef 149

Acknowledgments 151

Notes 155

Index 207