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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Reelfoot Lake: Oasis on the Mississippi

Reelfoot Lake: Oasis on the Mississippi

Johnson, Jim W.

Paperback

FishingEnvironmental StudiesRegional: South

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1621907082
ISBN13: 9781621907084
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Mar 9 2023
Pages: 260
Weight: 2.77
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

Each year nearly a quarter million visitors come to Reelfoot Lake, also known as The Earthquake Lake, to enjoy its natural splendor. With its twenty-five thousand acres of shimmering water, haunting cypress swamps, and two-hundred-year-old lily marshes, the lake is rich in natural beauty and natural history. Yet, despite being one of the most unique lakes in the country--this natural body of water formed during the New Madrid earthquakes in the early nineteenth century--it is relatively understudied. Biologist and environmentalist Jim W. Johnson grew up on the lake and experienced its natural and cultural history firsthand. As a wildlife biologist, he spent much of his career managing Reelfoot and its surrounding area. Reelfoot Lake: Oasis on the Mississippi is part personal remembrance, part guidebook, and part cautionary tale on river and wetland ecology, conservation, and land management, written by an author intimately knowledgeable about the lake and life on it. By exploring Reelfoot's ancient and recent history, Johnson illuminates the lives of generations of people who lived and thrived in the floodplain. For those looking to navigate the waters of the lake, this book will make travel through the bayous and canals much easier and more pleasurable. And its discussions about the lake's ecology will bolster voices calling for the protection and preservation of Reelfoot and other wetlands like it.

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