Blue frontier
Subtitle: dispatches from America's ocean wilderness
By: David Helvarg.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781578051571
Description: In this volume, the author chronicles America's maritime history and the challenges that American coastal and marine environments face today. He dives deep into the cultures of those who know the sea in myriad ways--fisherfolk, oil-rig roughnecks, hurricane forecasters, coastal developers, navy personnel, scientists, and surfers--and profiles the growing efforts by coastal citizens and local governments to restore and protect the health of our oceans in the face of wide-open development along our coasts and offshore. Demonstrating how national policymaking on the oceans is enmeshed in a welter of competing jurisdictions, he argues for strong omnibus legislation and the creation of truly protected marine wilderness reserves.