Is President Donald Trump angling to take over the Great Lakes? Can the water be diverted to the United States?
Daniel Macfarlane, an expert in environmental water history and US-Canada relations, discusses these questions on the latest Unsalted Great Lakes podcast.
Daniel Macfarlane is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Geography, and Sustainability at Western Michigan University. He is an editor for The Otter-La loutre and is part of the NiCHE executive. NiCHE is the Network in Canadian History & Environment.
A transnational environmental historian who focuses on Canadian-American border waters and energy issues, particularly in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin, he is the author or co-editor of six books on topics such as the St. Lawrence Seaway, border waters, IJC, and Niagara Falls.
His book Natural Allies: Environment, Energy, and the History of US-Canada Relations was published in summer 2023. His newest book is The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History (September 2024).
You can listen to the podcast here.
Unsalted Great Lakes is a weekly science and nature podcast hosted by Allison Devereaux.
Illustration: The Great Lakes in spring, 2019 (NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview).
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