Overrun, Andrew Reeves
Overrun, Andrew Reeves
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Overrun
Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis

Author: Andrew Reeves

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 12 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/12/2019


Synopsis

Politicians, ecologists, and government wildlife officials are fighting a desperate rearguard action to halt the onward reach of Asian Carp, four troublesome fish now within a handful of miles from entering Lake Michigan. From aquaculture farms in Arkansas to the bayous of Louisiana; from marshlands in Indiana to labs in Minnesota; and from the Illinois River to the streets of Chicago where the last line of defense has been laid to keep Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, Overrun takes us on a firsthand journey into the heart of a crisis. Along the way, environmental journalist Andrew Reeves discovers that saving the Great Lakes is only half the challenge. The other is a radical scientific and political shift to rethink how we can bring back our degraded and ignored rivers and waterways and reconsider how we create equilibrium in a shrinking world.

With writing that is both urgent and wildly entertaining, Andrew Reeves traces the carp's explosive spread throughout North America from an unknown import meant to tackle invasive water weeds to a continental scourge that bulldozes through everything in its path.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on December 21, 2018

My brother, who enjoys kayaking, told me about a video showing a man in a boat who is armed with a baseball bat, ready to the strike giant leaping fish that fly out of the water. We may laugh, but the reality isn't funny. Those fish are foreign species from Asia. And they are taking over. We Michigan......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on February 03, 2020

I’m biased, obviously.......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on June 15, 2020

Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis is environmental journalist Andrew Reeves' in-depth look at just how the Asian Carp species that were brought into the United States to help solve one environmental issue ended up causing one of the biggest threats to the Great Lakes to date.  Reeves ge......more

Goodreads review by Randal on January 31, 2019

When will we ever learn????? Humans have this short-sighted tendency to seek a quick fix, future consequences be damned. History is full of examples. Well, we've done it again. In an effort to clean waters of "yucky" vegetation, we introduced the Asian carp into the southern U.S. With no natural preda......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on December 17, 2020

An extremely informative look into an environmental problem I knew very little about, despite being a scientist who tries to stay abreast of conservation issues. This book got my blood pressure up quite a bit, furious with the people who allowed this problem to unfold, even though there is no single......more