Download The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World AudioBook Free
Within the 1990s, a sea scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to review Canada's western coastline. He observed amazing places, from the wildest, most breathtaking coasts to the tiniest of marine animals. Along the american part of Vancouver Island, Kingzett nosed into an isolated pocket beach where he found something uncommon. Amid the mussels, barnacles, and clams were circular oysters - Olympias. Kingzett observed their occurrence and paddled on. A decade later when he attained Betsy Peabody, professional director of the Puget Audio Restoration Fund (PSRF), he learned that once ubiquitous local oyster is at steep drop, and he realized that together they would return to this remote place. Rowan Jacobsen, along with Kingzett, Peabody, and a little group of scientists from PSRF and the Nature Conservancy, set out previous July to see if the Olys were still making it through - and if indeed they were, what they could study from them. The goal: to utilize their pristine natural mattresses, that have probably been around for millennia, as plans for the habitat recovery attempts in Puget Audio. The implications are great. If Peabody and her team may bring good health back again to Puget Audio by repairing the intertidal areas - the regions of land uncovered during low tide and submerged during high tide, where oysters live - their research could serve as a model for conserving the world's oceans. During a time when the fate of the oceans seems uncertain, Rowan Jacobsen has found wish by means of a little shelled creature living in the lost world where all life started.
