MSU Press Pandora's Locks author praised by environmental media
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Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.
Author and Michigan State University alumnus Jeff Alexander is an award-winning environmental journalist who has covered Great Lakes issues for the past 20 years. His newspaper articles in the Muskegon Chronicle, Grand Rapids Press and the Kalamazoo Gazette have won numerous journalism awards, helped spur pollution cleanups worth more than $30 million, led to a ban on expanded oil drilling activities beneath Lake Michigan and prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to cancel its plans to conduct live-fire weapons training exercises on the Great Lakes.
His first book, The Muskegon: The Majesty and Tragedy of Michigan's Rarest River, was published in 2006 by the Michigan State University Press. The Muskegon was named a 2007 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan Foundation and earned a State History Award from the Michigan Historical Society.
Hear the interview by Lester Graham from The Environment Report at http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=4444.