The Great Lakes:
An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book
Chapter One - Introduction: The Great Lakes
Chapter Two - Natural Processes in the Great Lakes
Chapter Three - People and the Great Lakes
Chapter Four - The Great Lakes Today - Concerns
Chapter Five - Joint Management of the Great Lakes
Chapter Six - New Directions for the Great Lakes Community
Glossary
Conversion Table (Metric
to Imperial Values)
References and Suggestions
for Further Reading
Sources for Maps
Great Lakes Factsheet No. 2
Land and Shoreline Uses
Superior % |
Michigan % |
Huron % |
Erie % |
Ontario % |
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Basin Land Use | Agricultural | Canada | 0.5 | 21 | 80 | 49 | |
U.S. | 6.0 | 44 | 40 | 63 | 33 | ||
Total | 3.0 | 44 | 27 | 67 | 39 | ||
Residential | Canada | 0.1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | ||
U.S. | 3.0 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 8 | ||
Total | 1.0 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 7 | ||
Forest | Canada | 98.7 | 75 | 15 | 42 | ||
U.S. | 80.0 | 41 | 52 | 23 | 53 | ||
Total | 91.0 | 41 | 68 | 21 | 49 | ||
Other | Canada | 0.7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||
U.S. | 11.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||
Other | 5.0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
Shoreline Use | Residential | Canada | n/a | 34 | 39 | 25 | |
U.S. | n/a | 39 | 42 | 45 | 40 | ||
Recreational | Canada | n/a | 8 | 8 | 15 | ||
U.S. | n/a | 24 | 4 | 13 | 12 | ||
Agricultural | Canada | n/a | 4 | 21 | 30 | ||
U.S. | n/a | 20 | 15 | 14 | 33 | ||
Commercial | Canada | n/a | 35 | 10 | 18 | ||
U.S. | n/a | 12 | 32 | 12 | 8 | ||
Other | Canada | n/a | 19 | 22 | 12 | ||
U.S. | n/a | 5 | 7 | 16 | 7 |
Source: Bulletins E-1866-70, Sea Grant College Program, Cooperative Extension Service, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Michigan, 1985.
n/a: not available