Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene PDF
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C L I M A T E G H O S T S The MANDEL LECTURES in the HUMANITIES at BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY Sponsored by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. Director and chair, Professor Ramie Targoff. The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities were launched in the fall of 2011 to promote the study of the humanities at Brandeis Univer- sity, following the 2010 opening of the new Mandel Center for the Humanities. The lectures bring to the Mandel Center each year a prominent scholar who gives a series of three lectures and conducts an informal seminar during his or her stay on campus. The Mandel Lectures are unique in their rotation of disciplines or fields within the humanities and humanistic social sciences: the speakers have ranged from historians to literary critics, from classicists to anthropologists. The published series of books therefore reflects the interdisciplinary mission of the center and the wide range of extraordinary work being done in the humanities today. For a complete list of books that are available in the series, visit brandeisuniversitypress.com Nancy Langston, Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene David Der-wei Wang, Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China Wendy Doniger, The Donigers of Great Neck: A Mythologized Memoir Ingrid D. Rowland, The Divine Spark of Syracuse James Wood, The Nearest Thing to Life David Nirenberg, Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies: Judaism in Christian Painting, Poetry and Politics Nancy Langston Brandeis University Press | Waltham, Massachusetts Migratory Species in the Anthropocene Brandeis University Press © 2021 by Nancy Langston All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill Typeset in Adobe Caslon Pro and ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Brandeis University Press, 415 South Street, Waltham MA 02453, or visit brandeisuniversitypress.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Langston, Nancy, author. Title: Climate ghosts: migratory species in the anthropocene / Nancy Langston. Description: Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, [2021] | Series: The Mandel lectures in the humanities at Brandeis University | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Langston focuses on three ghost species in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Their traces are still present in DNA, small fragmented populations, or in lone individuals. We can still restore them, if we make the hard choices necessary for them to survive”— Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2021020966 (print) | LCCN 2021020967 (ebook) | ISBN 9781684580644 (cloth) | ISBN 9781684580651 (paperback) | ISBN 9781684580668 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Endangered species—Great Lakes Region (North America) | Endangered species—Great Lakes Region (North America)— Conservation. | Migratory animals—Climatic factors—Great Lakes Region (North America) Classification: LCC QL84.22.G74 L36 2021 (print) | LCC QL84.22.G74 (ebook) | DDC 333.95/420977—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021020966 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021020967 5 4 3 2 1 C O N T E N T S List of Illustrations ix Foreword xi Preface xix Acknowledgments xxiii ONE Ghosts in the Anthropocene 1 TWO Woodland Caribou Histories in the Upper Great Lakes 12 THREE Caribou Futures in a Warming World 43 FOUR Indigenous Communities and Lake Sturgeon Restoration 73 FIVE The Gift of the Loon 107 Notes 133 Bibliography 149 Index 171 I L L U S T R A T I O N S FIGURES 0.1. Students at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore xii 0.2. Author on a Lake Superior Beach xiv 2.1. A Woodland Caribou in 1913 17 4.1. Fishermen Display a Lake Sturgeon 74 4.2. The Great Lakes Problem 91 4.3. Children with a Lake Sturgeon 105 5.1. Logging the Upper Peninsula of Michigan 116 5.2. William Murray’s Loon Hunt 123 5.3. A Hunting and Fishing Expedition 124 MAPS 1.1. The Great Lakes 7 2.1. Caribou Range 15 2.2. The Big Bog Region 28 4.1. Lake Sturgeon Range 77 4.2. Ceded Territories in the Lake Superior Basin 88 5.1. Loon Range 110 5.2. Loon Migration 122
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