Great Lakes Champions
Hartig, John H.
The Great Lakes--containing one-fifth of the standing freshwater on earth, covering some 94, 250 square miles with a combined 10, 210 miles of shoreline--have suffered greatly from human use and abuse since the advent of the commercial fur trade in the late 1600s. In 1985 when the International Joint Commission identified more than forty pollution hotspots around the lakes, few people had faith the Areas of Concern would be cleaned up in their...
