Contents -- Foreword -- SECTION 1 Voices for the Watershed -- Prologue: Bridging the Knowledge Gap - Science and Society Working Together for Environmental Understanding -- Introduction -- Headwaters and Upland Regions -- Highland Headwaters: Getting a Good Start along the Heights of Land -- Sane Friends of the Mad River: Downstream from Vermont -- Over the Gunnels in Algonquin: Clean Waters - Straight from the Source -- Getting Our Act Together: The Greening of the Châteauguay River Watershed -- Fouling Up on the Farm: Agricultural Non-Point Sources of Pollution -- Wetland Lost - Farmland Claimed: Ontario's Holland Marsh Experiment -- Wild Rice, Midges, and Cranes: The Importance of Wetlands for Creatures Great and Small -- Covering the Acid Rain Story: The Insidious Drift of Air Pollution -- The Media Agenda: A Journalistic Perspective on Environmental Reporting -- The Great Lakes -- Reflections of a Paddle Pusher: Retracing Historic Canoe Routes to the Upper Great Lakes -- Poisons up the Food Chain: The Effects of Bioconcentration on Eagles, Ospreys, and Cormorants -- Rescuing Native Fish: Restoration of Lake Trout Populations in the Great Lakes -- Making the Lakes Great: The Role of Remedial Action Plans -- Developing Sustainability: Conservation Action in the Lake Superior Basin -- From Apathy to Action: Environmental Issues in American Heartland Cities -- The Crush of Megalopolis: Crowding Nature in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe -- Stories from a Big City Stream: Restoring Toronto's Don River -- Decline and Recovery: Restoration of Hamilton Harbour -- The St Lawrence River -- Ecosystem in Peril: The St Lawrence River -- Environmental Sleuths: Biological Indicator Species Help Track Pollution -- Alien Invaders: The Trouble with Zebra Mussels and Other Exotic Species -- The Montreal Archipelago: Biodiversity in Quebec's Urban and Industrial Core.

Balancing Act: Eco-Tourism along the St Lawrence -- Blocking the Flow of Rivers: The Impact of Dams on Nature -- Great Rivers Meet: Stirring Life and Wonder in the Saguenay-St Lawrence Marine Park -- Watershed Perspectives -- Bi-National Citizen Action: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Watershed -- Sustainable Development: Balancing Environment and Economy -- Frog Reflections: The Ecosystem Approach to Conservation -- Lessons from a Woodpecker: Parks and Protected Places -- Learning the System from Water: Life Lessons of Environmental Education -- Why Rivers? Why Watersheds? Life-Lines of the Ecosystem -- SECTION 2 Finding a Voice -- Revelations: The Evolution of an Environmental Ethic and Career -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Conservation Organizations -- Selected References and Notes -- Author Biographies -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.