The Past, Present and Future of the Great Lakes
From the Archive: Lectures from Past Seasons • Educational, 24-Jun-2019
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 24, 2019.
2019 CLSC author Dan Egan discusses with Chautauqua’s Emily Morris the historical and ongoing mismanagement of America's Great Lakes. Egan, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, provides a look into his book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes,a brief history of his reporting career and snapshot of the lakes’ current state.
Egan is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist who began reporting for the Journal Sentinel in 2002.
“As it happened, I was thrown into it in a place that had a lot of ecological issues that were really national issues at the time,” Egan says of beginning his coverage of lake issues.
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