In Detroit, federal environmental cuts and deregulation threaten the Great Lakes ecosystem, with layoffs at the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and weakened environmental protections raising concerns about long-term impacts.

Author Archives: John Hartig
John Hartig is a board member at the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. He serves as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Windsor’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and has written numerous books and publications on the environment and the Great Lakes. Hartig also helped create the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, where he worked for 14 years as the refuge manager.