Fascinating stories based on the author’s exploration of eight rivers in New York and Québec.In Living Waters, Margaret Wooster canoes, portages, camps beside, and wades into eight Great Lakes watersheds across New York and Québec, returning with her pockets full of original stories from these beautiful, boggy, and prehistoric waterways. From the history of hydropower development on the Niagara River to the search for a wizard’s cave in the Zoar Valley, from a portrait of an urban creek in Buffalo, to the origins and demise of New France on the St. Lawrence, Living Waters offers a fascinating, first-person exploration of the rivers that impact our world’s largest freshwater ecosystem.

Living Waters: Reading the Rivers of the Lower Great Lakes

Business & Money

Wooster, Margaret

Economics

Excelsior Editions

Fascinating stories based on the author’s exploration of eight rivers in New York and Québec. In Living Waters, Margaret Wooster canoes, portages, camps beside, and wades into eight Great Lakes watersheds across New York and Québec, returning with her pockets full of original stories from these beautiful, boggy, and prehistoric waterways. From the history of hydropower development on the Niagara River to the search for a wizard’s cave in the Zoar Valley, from a portrait of an urban creek in Buffalo, to the origins and demise of New France on the St. Lawrence, Living Waters offers a fascinating, first-person exploration of the rivers that impact our world’s largest freshwater ecosystem.

Living Waters: Reading the Rivers of the Lower Great Lakes (Excelsior Editions)

Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press

Somewhere to Go on Sunday: A Guide to Natural Treasures in Western New York

Prometheus+books

Rocky labyrinths, deep cool canyons, vast swamps alive with songbirds, quiet streams wandering through woods and meadows, sequestered waterfalls, charming nineteenth-century villages remarkable in their architecture and history - these are only some of the treasures presented in this revised, updated, and expanded edition of Somewhere to Go on Sunday. Two Great Lakes, the Niagara River, the Letchworth Gorge, and the Allegheny Mountains dominate and define the natural landscape, but there is much more to see and do on the Niagara Frontier.The purpose of this guide is to introduce both residents and visitors to the natural beauty of Western New York and Southern Ontario. Special features of more than one hundred places are described in detail. Historical and geological summaries explain how they all came to be just the way they are. Easy to read, detailed maps (prepared especially for this volume) are provided, along with precise directions, to make getting to these natural wonders easy.Illustrated with dozens of photos, drawings, and historic maps, Somewhere to Go on Sunday is an indispensible companion to those wishing to get outdoors and sample the wonders of the Niagara Frontier, from Akron Falls to Zoar Valley.

Somewhere to Go on Sunday

Reference

Prometheus

Meander: Making Room for Rivers (Excelsior Editions)

History

Americas

Review\n"Wooster offers a voice of hope, chronicling successes in improving a local watershed while offering suggestions applicable to readers across a much wider geography." -- CHOICE\n"Among the few individuals left from the golden era of modern-day environmentalism to write about book about the need to protect and preserve our Great Lakes rivers, who better to do it than Margaret Wooster." -- Niagara At Large\n"Making room for rivers--and for a lot of other things we've tried to improve and accelerate and modernize--is a good rallying cry for our beleaguered planet; this book will cheer you, and spur you on!" -- Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?\n"Meander is written in captivating personal prose by a mature activist, river scientist, and storyteller. Margaret Wooster stretches a diversity of disciplines ranging from planetary geology to hydromorphology, from federal and state policymaking to town hall deliberations, from the macroeconomics of water to the irreplaceable financial value of local open space and melds them all together into her irrefutable vision that rivers are a key pillar of community. The scope of her narrative centers in the value of the living river's vitality to our own quality of life, health, and spirit. It is a scientific and historic love story. All who have worked on behalf of water will become immersed in Wooster's dialogue with her own creeks, rivers, and lakes and find there validation for their own efforts. It is a thorough chronical of Great Lakes activism, policy, and issues (solved, festering, and emerging). It is a portal into the future of river protection and a welcoming must read for anyone who wishes to join the fray." -- Elaine Marsh, Cofounder of Friends of the Crooked River (the Cuyahoga)\n"Meander is both interesting and important. Wooster is uniquely qualified to write authoritatively about the historical land management of watersheds within Western New York; she has the requisite knowledge of history, policy, water quality, geomorphic processes, and the integrity of aquatic and riparian ecosystems. She also weaves anecdotal stories and experiences from her life in these environments that adds a personal and meaningful dimension to the narrative." -- Sean J. Bennett. University at Buffalo\nDraws on the authors own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.

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