Michigan and the Great Lakes

Great Lakes for Sale? by Dave Dempsey

The Wolves of Isle Royale by Rolf O. Peterson

Great Lakes for Sale?: From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps

Dave Dempsey

Rights: World
For more info, contact Michael Kehoe at mkehoe@umich.edu

Great Lakes for Sale? From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps is a book for all lovers of the Great Lakes who want to see them remain healthy and full for many generations to come. It is not a scientific paper, a detailed history, or a technical work. Instead, it is written in a conversational first-person style that asks and answers the questions citizens typically have about the why, the what, the when, and the how of protecting the Great Lakes from large-scale exports and diversions. In the Process it shatters widespread misconceptions about where threats to the amount of water in the Lakes are coming from and offers practical suggestions on how to conserve the Great Lakes for the future.

Dave Dempsey is policy advisor for the Michigan Environmental Council, a coalition of more than sixty-five environmental advocacy organizations. Dempsey is author of William G. Milliken: Michigan's Passionate Progressive, Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader and On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Spring 2008
136 pages

The Wolves of Isle Royale: A Broken Balance

Rolf O. Peterson

Rights: World
For more info, contact Michael Kehoe at mkehoe@umich.edu

The Wolves of Isle Royale: A Broken Balance is author/wildlife biologist Rolf Peterson's compelling and fascinating first-hand account of the Isle Royale wolves and moose dynamic. Illustrated with over 100 photographs, this beautiful volume reveals the true nature of this little-understood animal, offering novel solutions to the conservation crises as the wolf population falters to its record lowest level.

Isle Royale National Park—with its lush northern landscape, wolves, and moose—is an ideal laboratory for wildlife biologists, and for thirty-five years it has been the site of a comprehensive study on wolves, the world's longest running study on any wild mammal.

Rolf O. Peterson is known worldwide for his wolf research. His photographs have been published in National Geographic, Audubon, and National Wildlife. He is professor of wildlife ecology at Michigan Technical University.

October 2007
200 pages