This week on the Great Lakes Odyssey Radio Hour: Losing A Lung: Fires in the Boreal Forest.
The great forests of the Great Lakes are being remade by fire, with huge implications for the water and warming cycle.
Dean Sayers is an elder of the Batchawana First Nation, he story tells of fire and the mighty thunderbird protecting the Great Lakes watershed. From her home in Duluth, Minnesota, Lanue is Sarah Krueger reinvented by her music, going electric and still keeping it honest. Joanie McGuffin, conservationist of the Lake Superior Watershed, enlightens with a talk on natural v. man-made fires. And music by Ansley Simpson.