Today, half the Everglades is gone, as a result of a massive mid-20th-century flood-control and drainage project by the U.S. nature that predates the arrival of Europeans. What he found was an ancient tale of man vs. His goal was to understand and document the unprecedented $8 billion effort to restore the dying 3 million-acre ecosystem, which once blanketed the peninsula south of Lake Okeechobee. To research the book, Grunwald spent a year slogging through the Everglades and wading into south Florida’s often swampy political and natural history. Copies of The Swamp will be available for purchase. Richardson, director of the Duke University Wetland Center and professor of resource ecology at the Nicholas School.Ī reception will follow in the LSRC’s Hall of Science adjacent to Love Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.įollowing his reading, Grunwald will take part in a question-and-answer session on wetlands issues with Curtis J. at Love Auditorium in the Levine Science Research Center (LSRC) on Duke’s West Campus. Grunwald’s reading will take place at 4:50 p.m. 28 at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. – Michael Grunwald, award-winning environmental reporter at the Washington Post, will read from his critically acclaimed 2006 book, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise, on Sept.
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