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About this book
This is a compilation of 47 methods of modifying habitat to benefit the Great Lakes ecosystem. The information is intended to raise awareness of Canada-U.S. progress toward restoration objectives in the Great Lakes, and describes methods for rehabilitating, restoring, enhancing, mitigating or preserving habitat. For each project the following information is provided: project title, contact information, agencies involved, restoration goal, project type, background and rationale, regulatory considerations, criteria, project design, implementation, degree of environmental intervention, costs, biological assessment, measures of success, and key references.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- List of supporting organizations
- Title page
- Copyright
- Table of contents
- Abstract
- Résumé
- Preface
- Introduction and Overview
- Project 1 Rehabilitation of the Native Aurora Trout Lakes
- Project 2 Neebing-Mcintyre Floodway Habitat Restoration
- Project 3 Current River Estuary Walleye Spawing Habitat
- Project 4 Construction of Self-Cleaning Spawing Substrate
- Project 5 McVicar Creek Mouth Island Creation
- Project 6 McVicar Creek Rehabilitation
- Project 7 Use of Reefrafts to Create Habitat for Birds and Fish
- Project 8 Metro Toronto Waterfront – Restoration of Natural Habitat Structure
- Project 9 Mitigation of Low pH in Salmonid Streams
- Project 10 Lower Don River Demonstartion Wetland Habitat
- Project 11 Creating Upwellings as Habitat fro Incubation of Eyed Stage Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) Eggs
- Project 12 Transplating Aquatic Vegetation in Collingwood Harbour
- Project 13 Soil Bioengineering for Streambank Protection and Fish Habitat Enhancement
- Project 14 Restoring Breeding Ospreys in the Upper St. Lawrence River – A Case Study
- Project 15 McKellar River Habitat Creation Project
- Project 16 Severn Sound Tributary Rehabilitation and Erosion Control Program
- Project 17 Underwater Fish Reef Creation Project within Ashbridge's Bay Park, City of Toronto
- Project 18 Col. Samuel Smith Waterfront Park Bass Spawning Area
- Project 19 Wetland Plantings Within the Mimico Creek Estuary, Humber Bay Park, City of Etobicoke
- Project 20 Toronto Islands Northern Pike Spawning Habitat
- Project 21 Metzger Marsh Coastal Wetland Restoration Project
- Project 22 Urban Stream Stabilization Efforts Which Increase Habitat While Controlling Bank Erosion
- Project 23 Ruwe Marsh Protection Project – Phase 1
- Project 24 Windsor Salt Riverfront Rehabilitation Project
- Project 25 MacDonald Park Habitat Enhancement Demonstration Project
- Project 26 Bear Creek Wetland Creation Project
- Project 27 Stag Island Habitat Rehabilitation Project
- Project 28 D'Arcy McKeough Floodway Habitat Enhancement Project
- Project 29 Aquatic Macrphyte Establishment in McKeller River Embayments at Thunder Bay, Ontario
- Project 30 Lake Orion Water Quality – Habitat Improvement Project
- Project 31 Belle Isle Canal Rehabilitation
- Project 32 Lake Erie Biological Criteria and Habitat Evaluation Project
- Project 33 Sawquin Creek Marsh Channel Creation Project
- Project 34 Strawberry Island (Niagra River) Shoreline Habitat Restoration and Protection Project
- Project 35 Sand Creek Bank and Channel Restoration
- Project 36 Early Life History of Northern Pike in Artificial Wetlands of Conesus Lake, New York
- Project 37 Wayne Country Detroit Metropolitan Airport Crosswinds Marsh Wetland Mitigation Project
- Project 38 Artificial Reefs in Lake Erie: A Habitat Enhancement Tool
- Project 39 Burns Harbor Major Rehabilitation – Submerged Breakwater Reefs
- Project 40 Pere Marquette River Rehabilitation Project
- Project 41 Effects of Beach Nourishment on the Nearshore Environment, Lexington Harbor, Lake Huron
- Project 42 Ecological Effects of Rubble-Mound Breakwater Construction and Channel Dredging at West Harbor, Ohio (Western Lake Erie)
- Project 43 Evaulation of Tawas Artificial Reef as Fish Spawning Habitat
- Project 44 Fox River Walleye Habitat Improvement
- Project 45 Peterson Wetland Restoration Project
- Project 46 Paint Creek Habitat Improvement (Southeast Michigan)
- Project 47 Big Island Wetland, Sandusky Bay, Ohio
- Back cover