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Homewaters : a human and natural history of Puget Sound / David B. Williams.
"Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region's ecological complexities. Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and between the Cascade and Olympic mountains, Williams uncovers human and natural histories in, on, and around the Sound. In conversations with archaeologists, biologists, and tribal authorities, Williams traces how generations of humans have interacted with such species as geoducks, salmon, orcas, rockfish, and herring. He sheds light on how warfare shaped development and how people have moved across this maritime highway, in canoes, the mosquito fleet, and today's ferry system. The book also takes an unflinching look at how the Sound's ecosystems have suffered from human behavior, including pollution, habitat destruction, and the effects of climate change. Witty, graceful, and deeply informed, Homewaters weaves history and science into a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call home"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780295748603
- ISBN: 0295748605
- Physical Description: xiv, 245 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Birth of a name -- Birth of a place -- Peopling Puget Sound -- Defending Puget Sound -- The maritime highway -- Seaweed in the sound -- The silver wave -- Old fish and new laws -- The table is set -- Homebodies.
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- Subject:
- Human ecology > Washington (State) > Puget Sound Region.
Natural history > Washington (State) > Puget Sound Region.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Washington (State) > Puget Sound Region.
Puget Sound Region (Wash.) > Environmental conditions.
Puget Sound Region (Wash.) > History, Local.
Ecology.
Human ecology.
Natural history.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Washington (State) > Puget Sound Region. - Genre:
- Local history.
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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