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Author Merritt, Grant J., 1934- author.

Title Iron and water : my life protecting Minnesota's environment / Grant J. Merritt
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 198 pages)
Contents Intro; Contents; Prologue; The Merritt Family and the Mesabi Iron Range; The Mesabi Iron Range; The Merritts Build into Duluth; "What Rockefeller Did to Us"; My Early Years in Duluth; Entering Politics in the Sixties; Environmentalism and the Reserve Mining Controversy; What Is Being Dumped in Lake Superior?; The Stoddard Report; An Old Fashioned with Robert Traver; The First Earth Day; Minnesota DFL Politics; The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; Taconite Tailings; Establishing Environmental Policies; I'm in Trouble with My Old Law Firm; Reserve Mining and Asbestos
The Minnesota Experimental CityWe Defeat Reserve Mining and Save Lake Superior; Citizen Activist; From Public Servant to Private Practice; Battling for the Environment in the Suburbs; Fighting a Virus in Lake Superior; Parks and Trails; Recognizing Progress-Ưand Staying Alert; A Lifetime of Change on Isle Royale; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 15, 2018)
Subject Merritt, Grant J., 1934-
Environmentalists -- Minnesota -- Biography
Environmental policy -- Minnesota
Environmental protection -- Minnesota
Natural resources -- Government policy -- Minnesota
Iron ores -- Minnesota -- Mesabi Range -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges.
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
LAW -- Reference.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Ecology.
Environmental policy.
Environmental protection.
Environmentalists.
Iron ores.
Natural resources -- Government policy.
SUBJECT Superior, Lake -- History
Minnesota -- Environmental conditions
Subject Lake Superior.
Minnesota.
Minnesota -- Mesabi Range.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018011025
ISBN 9781452957081
1452957088
0816678812
9780816678815