It was a clear summer day, and so I decided to drive back from a meeting in Detroit to my Downriver home along the slower, more interesting Jefferson Avenue route, instead of the quicker I-75 one. Jefferson Avenue meanders along the Detroit River through industrial property and brownfield sites (former industrial or commercial properties where […]
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.
