The Marsh Builders: The Fight for Clean Water, Wetlands, and Wildlife

by Sharon Levy

Book Overview

Swamps and marshes once covered vast stretches of the North American landscape. The destruction of these habitats, long seen as wastelands that harbored deadly disease, accelerated in the twentieth century. Today, the majority of the original wetlands in the US have vanished, transformed into farm fields or buried under city streets.

In The Marsh Builders, Sharon Levy delves into the intertwined histories of wetlands loss and water pollution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190246405
• ISBN13: 9780190246402
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"