{"product_id":"the-living-shore-rediscovering-a-lost-world","title":"The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World","description":"\u003cp\u003eModeled on John Steinbecks The Sea of Cortez  a slim  beautiful volume containing a goodnews environmental story about how an oyster could help restore our oceans.  In the 1990s  a marine scientist named Brian Kingzett was commissioned to survey Canadas western coast. He saw amazing sights  from the wildest  most breathtaking coasts to the smallest of marine creatures. Along the western side of Vancouver Island  Kingzett nosed into an isolated pocket beach where he found something unusual. Amid the mussels  barnacles  and clams were round oystersOlympias. Kingzett noted their presence and paddled on. A decade later when he met Betsy Peabody  executive director of the Puget Sound Restoration Fund (PSRF)  he learned that this once ubiquitous native oyster was in steep decline  and he knew that together they would return to this remote spot. Rowan Jacobsen  along with Kingzett  Peabody  and a small group of scientists from PSRF and the Nature Conservancy  set out last July to see if the Olys were still survivingand if they were  what they could learn from them. The goal: to use their pristine natural beds  which have probably been around for millennia  as blueprints for the habitat restoration efforts in Puget Sound. The implications are vast. If Peabody and her team can bring good health back to Puget Sound by restoring the intertidal zonesthe areas of land exposed during low tide and submerged during high tide  where oysters livetheir research could serve as a model for saving the worlds oceans. During a time when the fate of the oceans seems uncertain  Rowan Jacobsen has found hope in the form of a small shelled creature living in the lost world where all life began.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946008375349,"sku":"ByrdShop_1596916842","price":30.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781596916845.jpg?v=1769918905","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-living-shore-rediscovering-a-lost-world","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}