The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Having spent over six years on the shores of Lake Michigan (in Chicago), I found the story of the Lakes to be quite interesting. It's a little overburdened with data that might have been better left to endnotes, but otherwise it tells a good story. When I arrived in Chicago in 1971, the alewife die-off of 1967 was still in people's memory, and we would see evidence of the fish on the beach, but I never knew why.