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Excerpt from Sailing Directions for Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, St. Clair and Detroit Rivers: And Lake St. Clair With the present volume the set of Sailing Directions for the Great Lakes is completed, with the exception of a small supplement for the St Lawrence River to Montreal. This work is published in the following parts: Part I, Lake Superior, St. Marys River, and Straits of Mackinac. Part II, Lake Michigan, Green Bay, and Straits of Mackinac. Part III, Lake Huron, St. Clair and Detroit rivers, and Lake St. Clair. Part III, Supplement, North Channel and Georgian Bay. Part IV, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, St. Clair and Detroit rivers and Lake St. Clair. Part IV, Supplement, St. Lawrence River to Montreal. At Montreal it will connect with Hydrographic Office publication No. 100, thus giving complete sailing directions from Duluth, Minn., to the Atlantic Ocean. The general description of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario has been obtained from various encyclopedias, and the description of the coast and harbors chiefly from the annual reports and bulletins of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, and from charts published by the United States Engineers. The lighthouses, lightvessels, ranges, beacons, buoys, and daymarks are described from the publications of the U. S. Lighthouse Board, and the Department of the Marine and Fisheries, Canada. Through the courtesy of local authorities much valuable data has been procured. Since the first issue of such a work may lack completeness, the Office depends upon the cooperation of those who dwell near the lakes, as well as of those who navigate them, for prompt information concerning any errors or omissions. Such cooperation is earnestly requested. The articles appended to this work are such as may be of interest and value to the mariner: "The New Rules of the Road of the United States" (Great Lakes). "Signals: Weather, Storm, and Temperature, with Diagrams, United States and Canada." "Brief Rules for the Use of Oil," with diagrams. "Anchoring and Riding out Gales in Deep Water." "Currents of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario," with map, United States Weather Bureau. "Life Saving Service," with diagrams. "General Information." The thanks of the Office are due, for valuable information furnished in response to its circular letter, - to John J. Maclntire, Esq., Niagara Falls, N. Y. John M. Riesterer, Esq., Deputy Collector, Tonawanda, N. Y. Walter Scott, Esq., Mayor, Erie, Pa. R. St. P. Lowry, Esq., Special Deputy Collector, Erie, Pa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
This document augments the dichotomous key crated by Ebener et al. (2003) with photographs taken during the 2002 and 2003 workshops, and it is intended to help fishery agencies implement the King and Edsall (1979) protocol for classifying sea lamprey marks. Their illustrations represented the "idealized" types and stages of sea lamprey marks in comparison with the more complicated marks often observed in the field. We combined the original King and Edsall (1979) photographic illustrations with photographs made at the five workshops to create this sequel to the 1979 field guide.
American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
