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The scars of project 459 : the environmental story of the Lake of the Ozarks
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The scars of project 459 tells how the popularity of the Lake of the Ozarks has resulted in major present-day problems, including poor water quality, loss of habitat, and increasing concerns about ...
The scars of project 459 tells how the popularity of the Lake of the Ozarks has resulted in major present-day problems, including poor water quality, loss of habitat, and increasing concerns about aging waste-management systems.
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- Creator
- Traci Angel
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- English
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- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Press, 2014
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- xiv, 147 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1610755413, 9781557286567, 9781610755412, 1306827345, 1557286566
- OCLC
- ocn866922877, ocn880878502
- Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-141) and index.
- Ch. 1. Nature's attraction -- ch. 2. History of the Lake -- ch. 3. Sounding the alarm -- ch. 4. Those who built on Ameren's Land -- ch. 5. Imperiled waters-yes, there's evidence -- ch. 6. Land and geological factors -- ch. 7. Loving to death -- ch. 8. Documented pollution past -- Sidebar: Grand Glaise Beach, is it the goose poop? -- ch. 9. Modern effort for water quality -- Sidebar: Where are the environmentalists? -- ch. 10. Challenges in regulating pollution sources -- ch. 11. Lake water quality gets political -- ch. 12. Other regional watershed groups -- ch. 13. Living together-activists, homeowners, policy makers, and proprietors -- Epilogue
Subjects
- Ozarks, Lake of the (Mo.) -- History.
- Ozarks, Lake of the (Mo.) -- Environmental aspects -- History.
- Tourism -- Environmental aspects -- Missouri -- Ozarks, Lake of the.
- Water -- Pollution -- Environmental aspects -- Missouri -- Ozarks, Lake of the.
- Watersheds -- Environmental aspects -- Missouri -- Ozarks, Lake of the.