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  • Jacobsen, Rowan.
     
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  • Oyster culture -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound.
     
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  • Oyster fisheries -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island.
     
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  • Olympia oyster -- Conservation.
     
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  • Puget Sound Watershed (Wash.) -- Environmental conditions.
     
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    The living shore : rediscovering a lost world / Rowan Jacobsen ; illustrated by Mary Elder Jacobsen.
    by Jacobsen, Rowan.
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  • Oyster culture -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound.
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  • Oyster fisheries -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island.
  •  
  • Olympia oyster -- Conservation.
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  • Puget Sound Watershed (Wash.) -- Environmental conditions.
  • Publisher Info: 
    New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
    Edition: 
    1st U.S. ed.
    Description: 
    167 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 21 cm.
    ISBN: 
    9781596916845 (hardcover)
    1596916842 (hardcover)
    Contents: 
    Tides -- First contact -- White gold -- Ghost creatures -- The engineer of the estuary -- In search of a vintage Ferrari -- How to kill a bay -- Why here and not there? -- Abundance -- America's first banquet -- The food that made us human -- Maps and mazes.
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    Summary: 
    A marine scientist, together with Rowan and a conservancy group interested in habitat restoration, suggests a possible blueprint for cleaning up our oceans by observing an isolated pocket of oysters living on the western side of Vancouver Island.
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